It’s a mad, mad world…

Postcard — By Adam Higgitt on December 21, 2009 10:55 pm

Bonkers (the Trawsfynydd campaign, not Mr Llwyd)

…Or it is if you are Elfyn Llwyd, anyway. The Meirionnydd Nant Conwy MP recently described the campaign to save the Trawsfynydd nuclear station, which began life on these very pages as “bonkers” (or as Golwg put it, presumably for good measure, “BONKERS!”)

Plaid’s own Victorian villain lookeylikey won’t therefore be best pleased that Cadw will be paying Snowdonia’s massive Magnox reactors a site visit next month to assess the claim for listed status. And I guess he’ll be only marginally less displeased that the campaign has now washed up on the pages of the Guardian‘s architecture section. We can only imagine that means a bunch more “crazy men from London” (Elfyn Llwyd’s words, not ours) getting behind the campaign.

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5 Comments

  1. Simon Dyda says:
    December 21, 2009 at 11:36 pm

    Nevertheless, ask anyone on the street up here what they think about it and the answer is still “Bonkers”.

  2. Ceri Shaw says:
    December 22, 2009 at 5:23 am

    Basil Spence…a great architect of course. But personally I couldn’t care less if he’d designed the Great Wall of China…please blow it up! Bonkers is about right. Just my twopence worth:)

  3. Adam Higgitt says:
    December 22, 2009 at 7:42 am

    But isn’t that the point, Ceri? It can’t be blown up. The reactors can’t be moved until the end of this century.

  4. Clayton Hirst says:
    December 22, 2009 at 8:52 am

    Adam – that’s exactly right. The building must remain there for at least another Century because of the radioactivity. That is an indisputable fact. It’s all well and good saying that it should be blown up etc etc, but that ain’t possible. The debate therefore is whether to keep it as Sir Basil Spence intended it or spend public money chopping it in half and installing a new “wavy” roof to apparently improve its appearance.

  5. Ceri Shaw says:
    December 22, 2009 at 8:16 pm

    Well if it’s a question of spending large sums of public money in a vain attempt to ‘rehabilitate’ a hideous eyesore then perhaps it should be left as it is. But another solution occurs to me. Would it not be possible to cover it with a large tarpaulin sheet ( perhaps camouflaged ) until the end of the century and then blow it up:)

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