UNCERTAINTY often shrouds development proposals when local authorities are involved, not least because of political and financial factors.

Bournemouth council’s plan to spend around £10m on a bus hub on the Exeter Road site seems to be surrounded by more uncertainty than most.

Officers describe it as high risk.

Another CPO (like the Imax) is involved.

And a feasibility study last year by a private firm concluded a mixed use scheme there was not affordable in the current climate.

Plenty of questions to be answered on this one, then, before it gets off the architect’s drawing board.