Tesco plans for retail village sub-standard, says watchdog

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Archiseek / UK / Scotland / News / 2006 / March 17

Tesco's plans for Scotland's first retail village have been criticised as sub-standard and potentially dangerous by the country's architecture and planning watchdog. A report has attacked the controversial proposal for shops, a leisure centre and student and private flats as "poor" and representing a "systemic failure". The supermarket giant has applied for planning permission for a huge complex on land in the west end of Glasgow. A senior councillor has agreed with the findings by the Scottish Executive-founded Architecture and Design Scotland and said the development would resemble a "Soviet-era high-rise monolith".

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