Inverness Retail Park 2

Inverness

The Inverness Retail Park is the worst planning decision ever (strangely ignored by Carbuncle judges, who seem distastefully interested in kicking places like Airdrie and Coatbridge when they are down). The recent additions - including, er, a gym, add insult to horror. The car park is a vast windblown tarmac prairie covered in discarded Tesco bags. Coatbridge and Airdrie have suffered industrial decline - what's Inverness' excuse?

DM

Inverness's excuse is we have the local council who have invested 130.000 of our money in TESCOS then wonder why Invernessians complain when we get called TESCO TOWN.

Carol Fraser

The good thing in these comments so far is that they reveal how some folk care about Inverness and would like to see its appearance improved by better design and planning. The sad thing is that those - like the pseudonymous Frank Furter - who seek to justify the city's present appearance can only do so by insulting and criticising others who comment.

Archie Tect

DM, be brave enough to put your name up and stop hiding behind your initials. You really have no idea about planning laws, regulations or general architecture associated with shopping facilities do you...until such a time i think you should keep your nominations to yourself. As for you Carol Fraser....i dont know where you've got your figures from, but i laugh them down...truely clueless. Check your facts in future! Tim, the BT building is a 60's design, maybe you should respect that it is for BT to upgrade with the times?

Frank Furter

A worthy contender,most visitors approach Inverness from the South or East bringing them down the glorious Longman Road Industrial estate into a town with attractive features blighted by concrete monstrosities such as the BT building and the area near the shapla restaurent. The main shopping area is full of bollards and posts making it unpleasant to walk around, the castle as such cant be visited, lets not even mention the depressing retail parks,rubbish everywhere hidious housing estates popping up all over, has the potential to be lovely let down by greedy and inept town planners, hope it wins!!

Tim Platt ,Inverness

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