THE Melville shopping centre car park is completed and what a disaster, what a disappointment.
It is a concrete desert, a big bare, ugly concrete heat sink.
There was an opportunity here to make a real statement by adding trees, making the area functional and beautiful, something the local residents and shoppers at the centre would have really appreciated.
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READ NOWInstead they removed the trees that were there, which were always in demand for their shade, and replaced them with nothing: shame and brickbats for such a shortsighted project.
What happened to Melville council’s push to bring more trees into the area?
Who signed off on this planning disaster?
SUZANNE HANLEY,
Attadale.