How unbelievably exciting to learn we are to have another 10 screen multiplex, new hotels, shopping malls and restaurants on the old Winter Gardens Site.

That makes for similar schemes on the newly designed Pavilion annexe; another on the old bus station site and I daresay more on any old car park site up for grabs.

This will make the town surely one of the most popular tourist destinations in the country.

Except in 10 years time visitors will still be parking in the same old car parks , passing the derelict old ice rink and queuing at the tiny Odeon Box Office in the cold and rain to gain access to the most tatty cinema complex in the country and shopping in the empty “flagship retail” shopping complex in Commercial Road ( ex C & A’s).

How wonderful !!!!

David Kingman, Exton Road, Bournemouth, Dorset