As a laymen in these matters, I find it difficult to understand the fuss and hot air created when it is necessary to cut a passage through some old tenement buildings in the Canongate, when, in contrast and almost without a murmur, we find an A-listed building such as the Usher Hall defaced with a glass wraparound extension totally out of character and proportion with the setting.
Where are the voices of the bodies that are supposed to protect our built environment here – or is this actually what they want to see?
DOUGLAS JOHNSTON
Drumbrae Place
Edinburgh