I RECALL with interest previous observations made regarding the design features of the new Brighouse Bus Station.

I may add to this by showing you a photograph of an architect's model of a proposed project of a similar design I came across in Dubai recently. A place where the street scene is a mish-mash of many magnificent futuristic styled buildings, most of which do not match anything else – and of course built on sand.

The street scene, which is of course compatible with their changing cultural setting due perhaps in no small part to the indigenous population being in a minority. It is a place where there are thousands of empty apartments waiting to be occupied by non-Emirates people seeking the good life of materialism built on the back of oil.

But now to Brighouse – could these aspects of architectural modernism, in our case designed and built on cost, be pushing the boundaries of our indigenous people into a new world we do not necessarily want?

What for example would the eventual re-workings of the Sugden's flour mill look like in the future? Could that again be something like another feature of the fun fair on Blackpool's south shore, or like the Burjal Arad Hotel – the tower of the Arabs where interestingly it costs £75 for a cup of tea and a sandwich?

I say this because a precedent has been set under our noses – about what Brighouse might look like in the future.

The situation in Brighouse is already bad enough, particularly when we see from the Clifton hillside acres of industrial buildings with asbestos coloured roofing materials, and other recent developments where stone buildings have been covered with asbestos coloured cladding, plus the position and design of the Tesco supermarket – I could go on.

But really if our town is dominated by buildings made from natural stone with angular and slated roofs, then why can not new developments match in with the same?

Or does it really matter what we leave behind for next generations to come?

If the architects/planners/financiers spent more time with their eyes and ears open to aspects of the town which matter to the people who live here then a better balance may emerge which would prevent future monstrosities such as the new bus station.

Peter Dalby