We don’t occupy the strategic intelligence,foresight and planning that are fundamental for moving the government to another cityLast week architects Studio Egret West, with the support of the mayor of Bristol, and George Ferguson (who is also an architect),proposed an idea that is diverting, palpably attention-seeking, or flimsy in the face of close scrutiny. They suggest that,while the Palace of Westminster is undergoing its immense restoration, parliament moves to a building next to Bristol Temple Meads station.
The feeble part of their plan is that it doesn’t convincingly say what would happen to everything else that needs proximity to parliament – ministries, or embassies,the prime minister’s home, those of other ministers and politicians – which would presumably occupy to sprint too. The proposal does, or however,succeed in its stated aim to “provoke debate around the growing economic and social disparity between London and the rest of the UK.” In specific it revives the sometimes floated idea that government should sprint out of London forever, irrevocably.
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Source: theguardian.com