Sir – I refer to the article Both loved and loathed (November 4) about The Queen’s College Grade II Listed Florey Building and the work of Jim Stirling, who was arguably this country’s leading 20th-century architect.
It would be of great interest to myself and I’m sure to many other readers of The Oxford Times, if Mr Alan Berman would perhaps take the time to express his views and opinion of the potential impact upon the iconic Florey Building, if the currently proposed redevelopment of St Clements Street car park is approved and allowed to go ahead.
The proposed new purpose-built student accommodation blocks of which there are four, and will be up to six storeys in height, would appear to be wholly inappropriate overdevelopment in what, after all, is supposed to be a conservation area.
The development would seem to be totally incongruous to the character of the area and in my opinion cannot fail to have an overbearing impact on an architecturally significant listed building.
Whether The Florey Building is “Loved or Loathed”, it does not alter the fact that its status as an important historical building should be both respected and protected.
Alan Grosvenor, Oxford
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