Uncle Basil comments on the memorial gardens

Uncle Basil has contributed to the debate on the state of the memorial gardens between the market and City Hall.  It's a great shame that such a central location in the city looks like a bomb site and gives the city a post war rather than post millennium feel.  I remember sitting in the gardens with hundreds of others watching the firework display over the Castle that celebrated 800 years of Norwich as a city and now I am ashamed of what used to be a pleasant place to sit and enjoy a few minutes rest.  I know there were problems with misuse but I'm sure that a design can be found that will encourage appropriate use.  We encourage visitors to look at the Norwich 12, the 12 buildings that highlight the development of Norwich over the last 1000 years but in doing so they have to walk past the shambles that is the memorial gardens so perhaps we should start a new Norwich 12.  A dozen examples of civic indecision and embarrassment.