One of the problems Scunthorpe always seems to have faced is the unsympathetic "regeneration" it seems to go through periodically. I've been looking on facebook at some of the Scunthorpe in the 60's groups showing photographs of the building of the precinct area and the pedestrianisation of the high street. I have to say, even back then the planning and architectural design was completely unsympathetic to the original area. Remember a lot of the buildings in the town centre stem from 1900 to 1930 the towns real boom period, so there once was a lot of art deco architecture in the town, very little of which remains now. When club 2000 was built it was built to help regenerate a run down area of town, however, the site it stands on now used to have a row of terraced shops which could have been redeveloped into a night club while still keeping their existing charm. Its a shame that our local planning department seems to feel it fit to annihilate any slight vestige of the past in scunthorpe and replace it with poor contemporary design every 15 to 20 years. But then again we are talking about the town who's library has no windows. Another point in case being the clock tower which used to stand in the town centre, that was removed, removing the key focal point of the precinct area, and what was it replaced with...? Well for a while there was a lotto stand, now very little other that a few grubby bits of street furniture. So come on NLC, lets have a bit of long term planning in your planning department which shows a bit of sympathy to our existing built environment before its all "redeveloped" and we have no links to our past architecture.