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September 09, 2004
'Restricted view' in the public gallery
It has already been pointed out (in the Scotsman?) that the Holyrood public gallery is in the wrong place. It should be facing the Debating Chamber, not at the back of it. Now, as Fergus Ewing has noted, about 10 percent of the public seats have no view.
How was it possible to design a public space like the chamber and not employ anyone who knew about sightlines?
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/3640776.stm
Posted by Simon Holledge at September 9, 2004 03:33 PM
Comments
Yeah it's crazy looking stuff. All the public can see is Wee Geordie the Presiding Officer and his five staff, staring straight back at them, and all the bewildered looking in-house media people staring out of their office cubby holes onto the chamber floor. The truth is that it's empty most of the time anyway, chamber and gallery.......
Posted by: Tom Findlay at September 11, 2004 01:55 PM