Madam, - Last Saturday's Weekend Review carried a picture of a proposed development on Merchant's Quay in Dublin. This shows a large empty space with a number of people sitting on the ground. Why are there no seats?
A few weeks back you published a scheme for Parnell Square, showing people wandering to and fro with nowhere to sit down. Why no seats? What have planners and architects got against them?
In one shopping centre in Dun Laoghaire there used to be seats, but they have been taken away. In another, the seats have been replaced by an inferior type with no back. In the pedestrianised street there are no proper seats, just some large gold marble slabs which would be better as tombstones.
Our towns are full of elderly people who would be glad to find somewhere to set down and take a rest. Why not give them what they need? - Yours, etc.,
G.F.DALTON, Woodlawn Park, Dun Laoghaire, Co Dublin.