New landmark on Leicester's skyline the Summit marks a new high in student rooms

“I can imagine on the 22nd floor Leicester probably looks nicer! :)”

“It look fancy and new now, but wait untill all 369 rooms are occupied and have been for sometime. The impact on the area will be huge and heaven only knows the knock on effect to the local community - good luck all who live close by!!”

“It doesnt look to nice :( x”

“Am I bothered what its accomodation consists of?Not in the slightest.
That it is just an eyesore is a fact.
Congratulations russel and planning department[not].”

“redcat. £140 includes TV (and licence), accommodation, bills and internet. So for about £560 a month that's actually not bad. This normally is paid for by STUDENT LOAN (and maybe some money from part time jobs). The only thing the student has to think about is the food and drink and uni books. I live in a three bed house and it costs be £500 for rent, bills, internet and TV licence - and I pay for that from my job and loan. My parents never give me money because this is the time where I am 'learning to be an adult'. Of all my friends at university, none of them receive money to pay for accommodation etc.

This building, although it looks like an eyesore, is actually pretty amazing! If I hadn't sorted this house I might just have moved there for my final year. The views are amazing, and the rooms great for studying (just because there's a TV doesn't mean the student won't study.) And not to forget, Leicester's economy works on students - the city basically comes to a standstill in the summer when there's no students around.”

“In my opinion it looks stunning when approached from Upperton Road, from the football ground and Eastern and Western Boulevards. It does, however , look a little incongruous when viewed from Jarrom and Walnut Streets. I do agree with the poster who says that the area in front of the building should be made good. When I last saw it it was a mess!

As for the colour, what is wrong with grey? Would the poster prefer blue, like the Blue Tower, or green, like the Phoenix, both of which were criticised at the time?

Finally, why all the constant criticism of De Montfort University? Surely anyone can see what an excellent job they have done and are continuing to do in regenerating the area . I dread to think of what might have happened to Trinity House, the Portland Shoe building, Gateway Boys, the Alliance and Leicester building etc. had they not been put to good use by DMU. I just wish someone would do same in the North Gate/ Sanvey Gate/ Frog Island area. And yes, I still think it was a mistake to remove the Bowstring bridge!”

“I wonder, has there ever been a building to which the whinging posters on here have said "That's a nice building in a nice place"? I stongly doubt it!!

The funniest thing is that it's usually the exact same people who moan about building on green spaces. They then moan about building in inner cities, they then moan that buildings look different to other buildings. All this whilst sitting in their homes which were, at some point, built on green fields and at odds with the trees and mole hills that surround it!! OK, you might not like the style, but so what? how far would we get if we said to developers "This land you own, and this brand new building you want to put up, and these millions you want to invest into the local economy, well you can only do it if you buy what we like, not what you think will be profitable"

Progress is what it is, it moves forwards, it changs, it "progresses"!! Progress will never be staying the same and not moving!!!”

“This building is a total blot on the landscape. I walk past and drive past often and I have been watching it develope with great interest. I am not at all against high rise, that's not my concern. I think the depressing grey slabs on the building are absolutely awful and, taken as a whole the impression is of a banal, dull, uninspiring structure.

As the slabs of whatever it is have been added they were first covered by some kind of protetive coating. Then when I first saw them revealed I genuinely thought that this was still an interim stage and that some further fnish was yet to be applied. I was wrong. To me they look unfinished and ... well ......... just grey. Plain ugly.

The only saving grace of this building is the curved shape which I like. The rest of it is just terrible.

By the way, I was a student in Manchester in the early 1970s and I lived in a tower block in South Manchester with a fantastic view over the city to the north and far away to Jodrell bank and the Peak District hills to the South. True, in those days, we didn't have en suites and the other luxuries that students now aspire to, but the idea that comfortable high rise living, in contrast to dingy bed sits, is something new to the 21st century is plainly ridiculous.

I've got to add that, on the whole, the DeMontfort and it associated developments have not exactly inspired. There are one or two exceptions but mostly they are pretty terrible.”

“@Jaybe11. Sorry I wasn't as concise as I could have been, I obviously should have said the majority OF POSTERS as was the case at the time of making my comment. I've nothing against the students having comfy purpose built accommodation but nothing will persuade me it is not ugly and out of place.”

“@ Karin Fall

"It is fairly obvious that the majority seem to find it deeply unattractive"

No it isn't. It might be a mistake to think yours is the majority view.”