Cumbernauld is most hated
Published: 18 January, 2006
A visit to the website of the Cumbernauld shopping centre is revealing. It states that the scheme was “crowned as the UK’s first indoor shopping complex, winning awards for its unique design during the 70s. The centre can claim to be the parent and blueprint for all premier indoor shopping centres around the country today.”
While the latter part of this statement may be true, it is has just garnered an additional accolade as Britain’s most hated building courtesy of the Channel Four series Demolition.
Not content with seeing the back of this unique structure, a number of Cumbernauld’s citizens who voted for the centre’s demolition went a stage further and asked that the whole of the town be razed. Not encouraging news, one assumes, for London & Regional’s Antonine Centre, the first phase of which opened last autumn.
