Nevermodern: sorry I haven't made myself clear. Whilst preconditions may give them more reasons to abandon any plans, I just don't trust them. I think without any safeguards, the best case is we get some half-*****, third-rate facility that never makes sufficient contribution to the streetscape to justify loss of the old buildings, and looks awful in ten years. There's also the question of when it opens and at what final cost. The worst case is that they demolish the old buildings and then find some other reason not to proceed or we see no further progress for another 3 years.

To me this worst case is actually worse than the "do nothing" option which leaves as we currently are, and it makes me really angry that we should even be in this position through their negligence and that they seem to have largely escaped the stern censure they so richly deserve and instead divided the community.