Listing application submitted for imperilled Cumbernauld town centre

By Daniel Gayne2022-04-19T06:00:00

Brutalist megastructure once voted Britain’s most hated building

An application has been submitted to give Cumbernauld town centre listed status amid plans for its demolition.

North Lanarkshire Council announced last month that it had purchased the massive brutalist structure – known as The Centre Cumbernauld – with the intention of knocking it down it and replacing it with a new town hub.

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