Having visited the exhibition at The Fleece, I came away with the feeling that the building will be a huge architectural monstrosity in the centre of this Cotswold market town of Cirencester and is out of all proportion of scale and sympathy with its surroundings.

I was told by a member of the Cotswold District Council team that the structure will be a little higher than the Waterloo flats and therefore will dominate the whole area and however many fancy 'wrap' designs the architects come up with to disguise it - it is what it is - a mega-structure

that will blight its surroundings.

Immediately after visiting the exhibition I walked down The Waterloo and with my back to the Argos Car Park I looked across the road to visualise the scale and it will be absolutely huge.

The present Waterloo car park measures roughly 91.4 m x 73m (100yds x 80 yds).

The Cotswold District Council has advised that the dimensions of the car park will be -

Height - 19.3m x Width - NW - SE 68m & Depth - NE - SW 49.4 m

Number of Decks - Ground + 4

Parking for 635 vehicles.

I invite those councillors and others who think the 635 capacity decked car park on five levels is absolutely necessary, to take a look at the exhibition and then afterwards walk along The Waterloo as far as the entrance to the Argos Car Park - then face the Waterloo Car Park and try to visualise the scale before them - with a height of 20 m (60+feet).

Must we really have this massive structure in a cul-de-sac in the centre of Cirencester, surrounded by housing on all four sides?

Maybe councillors, you could also consider if you would want such a monster outside your own front door?

As proposed, it may suit Milton Keynes, Birmingham and other large urban centres but NOT Cirencester, please.

David Iliffe, Bernard Rees, Sue Whitby, Barbara Collins, Jane Leo, Roger Woods, Tony Slack, John Visser,

Cirencester