Nevermodern

I wouldn't want to see the Sylvan Post's outside seating area suffer for this either - and I agree with your suggestion about the Heron House frontage. I honestly believe that the existing trees, together with the telephone box, don't give it a nice feel. The trees have outgrown the space and they've made it dark and overbearing both at street level and for the poor tenants living in those flats.

I can envisage a nice waist-high ivy-covered barrier forming a proper enclosure for Sylvan where they could still seat as many people as they do now. The additional feeling of airiness and openness that would be achieved by changing the trees would, IMO, more than compensate for a very slight reduction in the size of their dedicated sitting-out area, which, incidentally, doesn't belong to them (even though I'm glad they're putting it to good use).

Oh yeah, and there'd still be enough room to put a nice street bench adjacent for the odd fella who'd rather choose his tipple from a local convenience store.

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