YOU can now see impressive plans for Bournemouth’s Pavilion Gardens and the colour scheme is dividing opinion.

“It will be on postcards before you know it,” said the proud developer Trevor Osborne, as he looked at drawings of the £35 million scheme.

But while people backed its nine-screen cinema and 15 restaurants the green exterior had not gone down quite so well.

“It’s a great idea, with all sorts of interesting aspects, but I’m not convinced about the colour,” said Nigel Sullivan, of building surveyors Bennington Green, at the public exhibition at the Pavilion’s Lucullus room.

John Peek, 75, an East Cliff resident, said: “The green is awful. The Pavilion is supposed to be a listed building and they want to put this aberration next to it.”

The development is planned for an existing car park and will pay for the refurbishment of the 82-year-old Pavilion.

Agnes Sawyer, a director of property consultants Nettleship Sawyer, said of the plans: “I love the sort of art deco design. It will bring shoppers and tourists back to the end of the town.

“The colour grew on me. I don’t think you can have something that just blends with the Pavilion, you need something different.”

The scheme includes a swirling, circular viewing tower, a 350-380 space underground car park, grassed roof, stand alone glass bar, and an open air amphitheatre for performance arts.

It was originally approved in 2007 but contractual delays and the recession have led to delays.

Mr Osborne, from Bath, said: “From a personal point of view my interest is in place making.

“The architect Piers Gough has the nearest approach that Gaudi had in Barcelona - he just loves buildings with curves.”

He said the final design would have a lighter shade of green.

The final planning application is due in weeks.

“If approved, the two year l ong build could start by the autumn.”