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Letter - deep concern over arcade
I would like to think that Ms Preller is right (letters January 6) in thinking that I need not worry any more about the future of Burlington Arcade because the large international concerns the owners want to attract may not want to come.
But, be that as it may, I and others are deeply concerned that it is now a month since the members of the Westminster Planning Application Committee made their feelings known and we have heard nothing of the owners having come to the realisation that Londoners at large are simply not going to allow them to wreck the arcade by dispensing with the small shops for which it was originally built.
It is difficult to believe that businessmen so taken with the arcade that they decided to buy it in the first place have not now had it brought home to them loud and clear that they simply cannot destroy the whole ambience of the place.
They must surely realise that they should immediately withdraw any notices they have given to any small shop keeper and assure London that they are sorry for all the concern they have caused, thus gaining for themselves a reputation as a responsible landlord fully aware of the historical importance of the arcade they own.
Silence and inaction cannot help their cause as any good PR company would tell them.
Jan Prebble
Dolphin Square SW1V
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