IT GAVE me great pleasure to learn from the article in Thursday’s Echo that the planning board in Bournemouth felt the hotel and training school scheme was out of character, and that ‘not enough thought had gone into the building, particularly the effect on the Exeter Hotel’.

It looked as uninspiring as some of the cubes of buildings on the East Cliff and Lansdowne.

What a just victory for planning law.

It would be nice if they had found the same reasons applied to Trevor Osborne’s ‘wedding cake’ of a Pavilion scheme as these comments are especially relevant in this instance, too.

I note, however, that the hotel and training school scheme stays in place awaiting adjustments to be made then submitted again – pity.

Mixing what is a predominantly holiday area with students doesn’t seem to me to be a particularly bright idea.

Adding students to the equation changes the dynamics and could spoil holidays for a lot of people, who might not return.

KAREN E LAWMAN, Marlborough Road, Westbourne