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More about Cumbernauld Scotland
Cumbernauld is a new town in North Lanarkshire,
Scotland, created in 1956 as a population overflow for
Glasgow. Its population was 49,664 at the time of the
2001 census. The name comes from the Scots Gaelic comar
nan allt, meaning the meeting of the waters.
Its history stretches to Roman times, with a settlement
near the Antonine Wall. A rural population grew in the
area where Cumbernauld's housing estates now stand, with
the centrepoints being Cumbernauld House (near the site
of Cumbernauld Castle) and Cumbernauld Village nearby. A
mining and quarrying industry flourished after the
construction of the Forth and Clyde Canal, notably at
Auchinstarry Quarry which is now a popular location for
climbing and abseiling.
Cumbernauld sits on top of one of the highest hills in
the low-lying Scottish central belt. This has given it
its old Scot's nomen, 'the windy toun'. It was long a
staging-post for changing horses between Glasgow and
Edinburgh. The Spur Inn in the village still has the
archway for the stagecoaches.
After the creation of the new town, diverse industries
such as high-tech, electronics, and chemical and food
processing became large employers, along with the UK
government tax collection office, the Inland Revenue.
During its construction beginning 1959?, under the
designer's eye of Geoffrey Copcutt, Cumbernauld's town
centre's daring megastructure architecture was highly
praised. Architects, designers, town planners and
students of many disciplines visited Cumbernauld from
around the globe to marvel at the town, for many years
heralded as a utopian construction.
Since then, the outlook has changed dramatically and the
New Town has won a number of very unflattering awards
including the "Plook on a Plinth" in both 2001 and 2005.
In December 2005 the entire Town Centre won a public
nomination for demolition in the Channel 4 series
Demolition in 2005. As well as a widespread backlash
against modernist architectural taste, the passage of
time has exposed serious defects in post-war concepts of
centrally planned retail and civic centres developed in
the absence of proper community consultation or
sensitivity to local environmental and economic
conditions. The Town Centre is widely regarded as one of
the ugliest and least-loved examples of post war design
in Scotland. However, the common confusion of the
dysfunctional and unattractive Town Centre with the town
of Cumbernauld itself is an abiding source of
frustration for residents, many of whom are the
descendents of skilled workers who aspired to escape the
frequently appalling social and housing conditions of
the Glasgow connurbation in the 1960s and 70s. That the
deleterious effects of Scotland's de-industrialisation
have compromised some of Cumbernauld's original ideals
should not eclipse the achievements of the town or its
inhabitants in building, over some fifty years, strong
communities and neighbourhoods and in sustaining a
strikingly distinctive ecology of housing, transport and
countryside from which generations of people have
benfited.
The supposed core of Cumbernauld remains the "Town
Centre", all of which is essentially contained within
one structure, segmented into "phases", the first of
which was completed in 1967, the latest of which began
construction in May 2003 for completion around September
2004. Designed to be a commerce centre, an entertainment
and business venue and a luxury accommodation site, it
was widely accepted as the UK's first shopping mall and
was the world's first multi-level covered town centre.
But the town never developed to its planned size, and
the town centre has never had the life envisaged by town
planners. Wealthy occupiers for the centre's penthouses
never materialised and some now lie empty and derelict.
Further expansion has been primarily to provide further
space for shops. A substantial portion of the Town
Centre has been bulldozed to make way for a new shopping
and leisure complex cloned from the many other identical
retail estates that now litter the United Kingdom.
The residential structure of Cumbernauld is noteworthy
in that there were no pedestrian crossings, i.e. zebra
or pelican crossings, or traffic lights until a set of
traffic / pelican lights were erected beside the new
Tesco Extra, opened January 2004—pedestrians traverse
roads by bridge or underpass. A previous editor of this
article noted that the town is infamously difficult to
navigate by foot, having been designed for a world where
the car was assumed to be king, but another point of
view suggests that many inhabitants of Cumbernauld value
the efficient and quiet network of footpaths and the
ready access they afford to civic amenities and a rich
and diverse surrrounding contryside.
The town has a reputation as grim and isolating, but
this perception derives from undue concentration on
social and economic problems Cumbernauld shares with
much of the Central Lowlands and ignores a great deal
that is appealing about living in the town. In
consequence, Cumbernauld is in the bizarre position of
having above average income and below average
unemployment and child poverty rates, yet also below
average house prices for the region. However, the town's
housing is well planned and generally of high quality,
making it a source of local civic pride in stark
contrast to the town centre megastructure. Houseprice
imbalances across Central Scotland mean that large
family homes of 4 bedrooms and above are available for
occupancy in Cumbernauld at prices and rents often half
that of equivalent or less salubrious dwellings in the
nearby centres of Glasgow and Stirling. The potential
locked in Cumbernauld remains as great as it was in the
1960s, requiring only imagination and leadership from
local and national political elites to release it.
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