Memorials and open spaces

Published: 7 May, 2010

• THE proposed monument to Bomber Command in The Green Park will be on Piccadilly and will encroach into the park. 
It will be 85 metres long and a massive structure of Portland Stone.
This will open up the northern boundary which presently provides sanctuary from the road.
I am not against a memorial to Bomber Command, just to that location.
This is now a quiet natural corner of precious central London open space and should be protected from all types of built development.
The Green Park has no memorials and very minimal structures of any sort. Do we not understand what “open space” and “conservation and preservation of our natural environment” mean? 
The emotive desire for a monument to Bomber Command should not win and destroy this quiet area of The Green Park.  Surely this is not what those who died in defence of our city would have wanted. Please find another location where nothing need be ruined. 
JULIET LYLE,
SW1