Gerry Tan wrote -"This morning I noticed the benches in the main piazza of EBSC were wet with overnight rain, as a disabled old man was trying unsuccessfully to find a dry seat to have a rest."Had it still been raining your disabled old man wouldn't have had anywhere to sit down at all.The question you should maybe be asking yourself is why during the planning and construction stage, and in all the subsequent 28 years since it opened nobody has ever thought of providing any covered seating at all inthe Shopping Centre.After all its not as though there's a shortage of space and yet there's not one single covered bench.The Ealing Broadway Centre is hardly unique in this regard. The centre platform Hounslow Central Station is blessed with an old fashioned canopy.And yet despite there being plenty of room LThave placed two benches 10 feet out onto the open platform where they will be subject to the elements rather than put place them under the canopy.There are also issues about the materials used for open seating and their drying and drainage properties. Even allowing for cost, comfort and durability its not immediately obvious that the best material has always been chosen.While its easy enough to blame the workers, this is a planning, design and management problem. After a shower of rain, hardly an unusual occurance in the UK, it shouldn't be necessary for staff to go around wiping seats in order for a disabled old man to find someone to sit down in somewhere the size of the EBSC.michael adams...
Michael Adams ● 4687d