“More development of any sort will help to boost the local economy and create work. More capacity by adding hotels will bring more business to the area as well as tourism. Any investment in the area is a good thing because Plymouth was a very run down city and it is now finally being dragged out of the muck. I agree that some stupid decisions have been made (civic center being listed for example) but we really shouldn't knock investors for trying to help improve the area. That being said, I can't for the life of me see why all of the plants are gradually being removed from the city center by the council in their ongoing exploits. They were the one thing that masked the dirge on the fascias of all the crummy buildings.”

“Development? Yes, by all means. However, in order to use a hotel to full capacity, we do need to look at making our city something worth visiting first. Having lived the most part of my life in Hamburg, I know a thing or two about a functioning and attractive city centre and Plymouth has not got that at all. After work shopping, a glass of wine and a chat...you're having a laugh! Everything shuts at 5:30, if you happen to be in a café at 5 p.m. the staff make it very clear they want you out NOW so they can shut up shop, our city is being disfigured by hideous buildings that do not fit in. Get rid of that stupid shop thing in the Barbican (used to be the glass place, now Edinburgh wool something or other, I think) and have a proper maritime museum in line with Plymouth's history. We are very blessed to have a city whose location is so unique but are we capitalising on that fact? Even the shopping area in the city centre is a disgrace: ground floor shop windows fine, but look above to first and second floors - dirty, neglected, eyesores wherever you look. A bit like a beautifully turned out woman in stylish clothes but with tattered and dirty underwear. I suggest before PCC engage in any more planning (if you can call it that), they take a few field trips to the continent and get a few pointers! I am not even a Plymothian, but I really like this city and it breaks my heart seeing it so badly treated and never coming into its own. What a place this could be, with such a WOW factor, but sadly this is not going to happen because we have no one in charge who has vision and wants to build on this city's heritage. And a new hotel complex is not going to change that, sorry folks.”

“Yay! im glad they will be building more to make the city more attractive, just a little dishearted that its only a hotel and another cinema ect.....
i would love to see a more designer area to plymouth. Somewhere where its lit up at night with many "eat outside" gardens! just somewhere exciting to go really!
When my boyfriend and i decide to go out for the evening it feels like we're approached with the same choices...... (cinema, restaurants, bowling, ice skating, gym, swimming) why cant we have an outside movie center like the americans?!?!?!”

“Now I know why I moved to Cornwall to spend my retirement!”

“Tim - Economics Student...it probably is a good idea that you do "shut up" as you appear to think that developers' returns are dinted by opinion voiced on local news paper chat rooms.

The opinions of a few xenophobic idiots on here are equally well countered by informed conjecture and positive input.

Plymouth is more than deserving of investment in order that it can move beyond its current position. It looks set to provide strong fiscal returns for the right projects in the right locations.

Much of the sentiment on here is broadcast by - dare I say it - working class Brits who have seen nothing but closures and industrial belt tightening. Is it any wonder why there is so much bad feeling?”

“When i moved to plymouth, I was struck by how left-behind it is compared to much of the nation. But upon reading these comments on this very page, I am not at all surprised. The quote 'you get whqat you deserve' comes to mind. I can now honestly say i dont think plymouth deserves this investm,ent, because the people dont want it and dont respect it. So to the developers- forget plymouth, you'll get better returns elsewhere.

And before you all start saying 'move back where you came from', my whole family is from plymouth. A plymouth which is dirty, boring and over-ridden by people with lack of respect for others, or their property. Only in Plymouth do you see so many people walk past without helping when an old lady drops her walking stick, and only a city like plymouth is stupid enough to list a building like the civic centre.

Any way, im going to shut up before i start swearing......”

“Quote- "30,000 students live locally and spend their money boosting our cities economy"

Yay, a lot more pubs and off-licences would go bust without them”

“ANDY...' I'd rather have a Plymouth full of born-and-bred Janners than a bunch of toffy English outsiders'

thats funny because myself and my other collegues would rather have a factory/office/hospital/ other place of employment where hard work is needed full of HARD working students and foreign workers than inbred/uneducated/lazy/workshy/benefit claiming/over-the-hill/chav janners.”

“ANDY...' I'd rather have a Plymouth full of born-and-bred Janners than a bunch of toffy English outsiders. If we can cut out the plans for student accomodation I say let's go for it!'

you are the type of person with that attitude that is responsible for the current state of not just plymouth but england as a whole. in the words of a previous poster, adapt or die. I strongly suggest that you wont adapt, so therefore...”

“I totally agree with Teri about Andy's post, that is one of the worst and most ignorant I have read in a long time. I think Andy could do with some education seeing he has the gall to critisise the students. What is a born and bred janner? Someone from Efford/North Prospect/Barne Barton I wonder? I am so glad we have all the students here, without the University Plymouth would be the dead and alive hole it was back in the 70s/80s.”