Should the Odeon be saved?

Friday 9th July 2010, 3:00PM BST.

Le Masurier's want to demolish the Odeon building, which is a site of special interest

The proposal to demolish the former Odeon Cinema in Bath Street as part of a
£40m development project, including flats, shops and restaurants and a new ‘green belt’, has prompted strong views both for and against.

David Barlow, who once worked with an architect involved in the cinema design,
expresses his views in a letter to the editor published in today’s Jersey Evening Post.

An extract reads: ‘The Odeon is a useless, out of scale, unattractive lump which, for too long, has dominated the Bath Street area. When it was built after the war, the effect on what was then a domestic part of St Helier must have been as devastating as that of Radissons and the multiplex cinema on the present Waterfront.’

• Read the full letter in today’s JEP and either respond by e-mailing a letter to the editor to editorial@jerseyeveningpost.com, or post a comment below

1
gino risoli

July 11, 2010 at 8:25 pm

please demolish the eye soar.

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2
Overpopulated

July 12, 2010 at 8:27 am

No it shoudl not be saved – it is an ugly building with no useful purpose.

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DoubleD

July 12, 2010 at 8:07 pm

Yes please save the building and leave it empty for decades to come.

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4
advice

July 13, 2010 at 3:42 pm

How’s our arts strategy coming along Rod? Jersey needs a concert hall and this would be an appropriate use for this building. Much tourism is now events-led and Jersey needs off-season tourism. We have the hotels, the airport but no decent venue for concerts. Whatever happened to the St James’ centre? Was it just a lousy choice?

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Bean Bag

July 18, 2010 at 10:35 am

The Odeon is so ugly it makes the Radisson Hotel look like St. Pauls Cathedral.

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