DOES York Civic Trust (Evening Press, December 5) not realise that had the new Travelodge hotel not been built, and in my view built in keeping with its environment, then the next thing that anyone entering York from Fishergate would have seen, would have been a huge multi-storey car park as planned in the Coppergate 2 development? Now that would be a blight on the view over York!

As far as most of the Travelodges I have seen, all of them without exception have been a brick built rectangle with white stucco base to the building. I think this one is brilliant.

Jeremy Banyard,

Bramham Grove,

Acomb,

York.