I wrote a letter in response to the article 'Battle to stop 'carbuncle' at author's isle' by Tom Bevan in the Western Daily Press on June 17th. The article begins: "Thousands of people have signed a petition to stop a 'concrete carbuncle' being built on an island made famous by writer Agatha Christie.
The owners of the luxury hotel on Burgh Island - where rooms cost from £500 a night - want to build a pool house on a rocky outcrop.
It will be linked by a bridge spanning the water in between, known as Mermaid Pool.
The controversial design - the result of an architectural completion - was approved last month by planners on South Hams District Council in South Devon.
But the project has appalled opponents who say it will "desecrate" an area of outstanding natural beauty and a protest petition has already received 2,000 signatures."
My letter was published on June 21st.
The owners of the luxury hotel on Burgh Island - where rooms cost from £500 a night - want to build a pool house on a rocky outcrop.
It will be linked by a bridge spanning the water in between, known as Mermaid Pool.
The controversial design - the result of an architectural completion - was approved last month by planners on South Hams District Council in South Devon.
But the project has appalled opponents who say it will "desecrate" an area of outstanding natural beauty and a protest petition has already received 2,000 signatures."
My letter was published on June 21st.
Many carbuncles throughout the West.
I sympathise with those campaigners who are trying to
prevent a ‘carbuncle’ being built on the picturesque Burgh Island (Western Daily Press, June 17). Unfortunately such ‘carbuncles’ have been
known to pass through the planning system.
Further east along the Devonshire coast planners have
allowed a new development of luxury apartments on The Esplanade in Seaton. Its modern style appears entirely out of keeping
with the rest of the sea front.
However, the proposed structure on Burgh Island is modest
compared to Verity, the grotesque 66ft high, 25 tonne bronze monstrosity which
dominates the charming harbour at Ilfracombe.
Somerset has its own ‘carbuncle’, or should that be ‘blot on
the landscape’, in the form of Willow Man on the eastern fringe of
Bridgwater. At twilight this spectral
figure appears malevolently poised as if to leap the M5 and hunt the ghosts of
Monmouth’s rebel army across Sedgemoor.
I am sure there are many who see beauty and grace in these
examples of modern art and architecture, but I am obviously not one of them.
Photographs to follow!
Update 3rd September 2017
Photographs to follow!
Update 3rd September 2017
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| Willow man looms phantom-like above the tree-line alongside the M5. |
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ReplyDeleteBigbury and the South Hams are wonderfully picturesque. The apartment must have a lovely view.
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