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Antonine Shopping Centre, North Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK

Cumbernauld - Town Centre Redevelopment

Cumbernauld Shopping Centre
Cumbernauld's £40m Antonine Shopping Centre by Keppie Design opened 7 Jun 2007

Cumbernauld - Building News 2006
Work has commenced on the £30m Antonine Shopping Centre in Cumbernauld in a bid by North Lanarkshire Council to refurbish the town centre and end the stigmatisation. The Antonine Centre is to contain 350,000 sqft and is for London & Regional Properties. Shops set to be included include TK Maxx and Woolworths.

Previously Cumbernauld town centre has been awarded the Plook on the Plinth Award twice and featured in the Channel 4 TV programme 'Demolition'.



Cumbernauld was featured at the Scottish Design Show in 2005. This saw the return of the controversial Carbuncle Awards which seeks to name and shame Scotland’s Most Disappointing Building and Most Dismal Town.

Carbuncles - Carnyx PR 21.10.05:

It gives us absolutely no pleasure to announce that four years after the
last award was handed out, Cumbernauld has won the Plook on the Plinth Award for the Most Dismal Town in Scotland, again. In 2001, Cumbernauld won the award and this year the public has expressed their displeasure with the
state of its town centre by giving it the nod once more. Over 6,000 individuals have accessed our voting pages for the Award. Cumbernauld received 28% of the vote with its closest rival Ardrossan in second place with 17%.

The Awards are decided firstly by public nomination then whittled down by a
judging panel to six. These six short-listed towns were then put to a public
vote. So it isn't really our place to say why Cumbernauld won.

We have included a selection of some of the nominations we received for the
town on the website. As is clear from reading the list, a large number come
from local inhabitants, who are particularly incensed at the state of disrepair that its town centre has fallen into. Described as "a rabbit warren on stilts" in 2001 by a judge it was described as "the Lego fantasy of an unhappy child", this year.



"Reading between the lines, people in Cumbernauld and the surrounding regions are rightly annoyed. Cumbernauld is an affluent town that is failing to live up to its potential. According to the Information & Statistics Division of NHS Scotland, and Communities Scotland, in 2004 the Average Gross Household Income in Cumbernauld was higher than the national average. The number of children in workless households and the number of income support claimants was lower than the national average. And yet the average house price in Cumbernauld is £357K a full ten grand less than the mean cost of a house throughout the country," said Tim Abrahams, Deputy Editor of Prospect Magazine.

End of Carbuncle / Plook on the Plinth Awards PR



The Awards were organised by Prospect Magazine

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