Cumbernauld town centre
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Cumbernauld town centre (known today as The Centre Cumbernauld) is the commercial centre of the new town of Cumbernauld, Scotland. It was designed in the 1950s—as what became known as a megastructure—to be a town centre consisting of "one huge multi-storey building," according to its preliminary planning report, housing shops, apartments, a hotel, ice rink, police station and other amenities. In March 2022, North Lanarkshire Council announced plans to demolish the building.
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