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Aug 25, 2016 · IT'S the infamous award which recognises the most dismal town in Scotland and provokes fierce debate on the quality of our built environment. ... Coatbridge. 2009: Glenrothes. Shortlisted: New ...
- And the winner of the most dismal town in Scotland is ...
A FRESH row over the annual "Carbuncles" awards flared...
- And the winner of the most dismal town in Scotland is ...
- Cumbernauld (2001 and 2005): ‘Kabul of The North’
- Glenrothes (2009): ‘A Drab Shopping Mall, Surrounded by Depressing Car Parks’
- Denny (2010): ‘Beirut on A Bad Day’
- Linwood (2011): ‘Scotland’s First and Worst Shopping Centre’
- New Cumnock (2013): ‘One Step Forward, Two Steps Back’
- Aberdeen (2015): ‘The Poor Relation of The Scottish Cities’
Cumbernauld is the only Scottish town to be labelled “Scotland’s most dismal town” twice. The town centre was described as “the Kabul of the North” in 2001, with particular derision reserved for the town’s shopping centre, described as “a rabbit warren on stilts”. Four years later when the town scooped the award for a second time, a spokesperson fo...
Fife town Glenrothes picked up the award in 2009, much to the bemusement to locals. “There is nothing wrong with the town itself,” Gordon Young, of the Prospect and the Architecture Scotland website said at the time. “But the people who live there are being badly let down by its depressing town centre, which could and should be better.
Despite initially awarding John O’ Groats the award, Urban Realm U-turned on their decision when residents of Denny pleaded for the ‘Plook on the Plinth’. One local described Denny to the BBC as “Beirut on a bad day. It’s a blot on the landscape.” Urban Realm themselves described Denny as being “lumbered with a giant mouldering Battenberg cake of a...
Renfrewshire town Linwood was named most dismal town award in 2011, and Urban Realm Editor John Glenday encouraged locals to view the award as a force for change: “Scotland’s first shopping centre is also its worst, leaving Linwood as a town without a heart – but it isn’t a lost cause. “It could be turned around and turned around quite quickly. To ...
After losing out to Glenrothes in 2009, East Ayrshire town New Cumnock deservedly won the award in 2013. In the four intervening years, New Cumnock authorities made crucial planning mistakes which sealed its victory, according to Urban Realm. “The town has taken one step forward and two steps back with the completion of an impressive new primary sc...
Scotland’s third largest city became the highest profile winner of the most dismal town award in 2015. Urban Realm Editor John Glenday cited a liberal attitude towards planning that has cost the city much of its historical character. “Sadly, there has been little of note built in the modern era to do justice to this legacy with durability and susta...
Jan 29, 2009 · A FRESH row over the annual "Carbuncles" awards flared yesterday after Glenrothes was named the most dismal town in Scotland. Fife's new town has followed the likes of Cumbernauld, Airdrie and ...
Coatbridge could soon become the third town in Lanarkshire to receive a Carbuncle award for Scotland's most dismal place. The former mining town has been nominated by readers of the architecture magazine Prospect. Nearby Cumbernauld has won the infamous "Plook on the Plinth" prize twice. Neighbouring Airdrie has also been honoured in the past.
Nov 27, 2007 · The town centre was named yesterday as the most dismal place in Scotland and the trophy - the Plook on the Plinth - is not something you would want on your mantlepiece. ... Coatbridge is now a ...
- The Herald Staff
There are still six railways stations, together with the Coatbridge Freightliner Terminal. Coatbridge is also notable as having the world's first automatic telephone exchange in 1886, designed by Dane Sinclair (1852 - 1930). Less favourably, the town was named the most dismal place in Scotland in 2007 as part of the Carbuncle Awards.
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Urban Aid grants, European Union grants and, more recently, Social Inclusion Partnerships have attempted to breathe new life into Coatbridge. Despite these efforts the town's population has continued to fall and, in recent years, the town has been dubbed the "most dismal in Scotland". [38]
