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
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please demolish the eye soar.
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No it shoudl not be saved – it is an ugly building with no useful purpose.
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Yes please save the building and leave it empty for decades to come.
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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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The Odeon is so ugly it makes the Radisson Hotel look like St. Pauls Cathedral.
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