Residents opposing plans to transform an old waterfront restaurant at Mount Batten into luxury apartments say they're completely inappropriate.

A planning application has been submitted to the city council to turn the old Seawings restaurant into a a five storey building, containing commercial space on the ground floor and ten luxury apartments.

But local residents say the proposed building would overpower the Mount Batten and is totally out of keeping with the surroundings.

Some have already written to the city council objecting to the plans - Robin Blythe-Lord from Hooe is one of them. He says the proposed building needs to be much smaller and that he hasn't met anyone who approves of the plans.

In an online poll on Hooelake.org, 76 percent of voters say they're strongly opposed to any development on the site, with 19 percent objecting to this particular design.

5 percent support the proposed development.