Seeing red

Richard Wyatt

I like the idea of seating ‘interventions’ creeping into our city centre but wonder if the Southgate Shopping Centre could gives B&NES a lesson in colour and design.

We are a World Heritage city with a high proportion of Georgian and Victorian architecture. For me these are the wrong colour and wrong design.

Union Street seating

l like the dark wood and bronze-like effect of the seating arrangements in Southgate.

Southgate seating
Dark, metallic and good use of wood.

Meanwhile, the concrete social distancing barriers recently introduced in Larkhall have been softened with a bit of planting.

We’ve gone from this….

To this……

Published by Richard Wyatt

Freelance Journalist, broadcaster, columnist and local historian. Director of Bath Newseum. Married and lives in Bath. Interested in local history, architecture and visual display in museums and urban spaces.

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  2. Not so much a lesson as a reading of its own Public Realm & Movement policy which sets out the carefully researched, bespoke street furniture which was supposed to be rolled out throughout the city: . No doubt the red ones are cheaper but they’re also nastier.

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