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Plans approved for new apartments development in Sunderland city centre, creating 13 new homes.

Paul Fowler: I can see what the Council are doing, they are trying to bring more people into the town to live, they will be all needing shops to go to so it may just attract shops and restaurants back into the town. It’s a gamble that I hope pays off as the city centre just isn’t working at the minute, it’s dying a death. Let’s hope it’s affordable apartments rather than student and expensive luxury ones.

Chris Poulton: When are people going to realise that City Centres are no longer about retail. If we try and hang on to that then we will die.

Joanne Jarvis: Yes we need more shops but people need to stop the on line shopping which is causing these shops to close.

Brodie Bird: That’s all the town is full of apartments or student accommadation.

Steven Spoors: Don't know what the fuss is about. All those shops began life as houses in the first place. My worry though would be the town becomes saturated with flats nobody wants. We don't want history repeating where whole streets wind up as dumps.

Christine Hall: Can’t believe more apartments, in a couple of years there’ll be no town centre, just a housing estate.

Mick Caney: Make the housing affordable and maybe they will get used.

Sam Kerr: We need decent shops, far too many empty buildings and businesses closing down with nowhere to go.

David Wilson: All these new homes/flats, need a supermarket in the town centre.

Che Thornton: We need more people living in the City Centre so that they can sustain more shops.

Vince Kelly: All you people obsessed with shops obviously aren't using them or they wouldn't have closed in the first place. I'd love Sunderland City centre to be known as an arts and culture hub, give it something to be proud of.

Evelyn Patterson: More apartments!!!