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Cumbernauld, Architecture,
Town Centre, Architect, Shops, Scottish Building, Image
Antonine Shopping Centre, North
Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK
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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 Scotlands
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
Cumbernauld College
Cumbernauld Housing
Another Scottish New
Town Shopping Centre: Centre West
Cumbernauld Churches
Modern
Houses
Glasgow News : back to index
Cumbernauld Photos
Another Scottish
New Town - East Kilbride
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