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Dalkeith nominated for 'carbuncle' award

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Published Date:
27 January 2010
It's the prize nobody wants – an award recognising the UK's most dismal areas – and Dalkeith is in the running.
The town centre has been nominated for the 'Plook on the Plinth' Most Dismal Town award in the 2010 Carbuncle Awards.

The awards were set up by the architectural magazine Prospect in 2000 to provoke debate about the poor quality of development in many of Scotland's towns and cities.

Bomb site

Kevin Thomson, who made the nomination, said: "(A) very costly facelift to the centre was carried out a couple of years ago and has caused the centre now to look like a bomb site."

For full story, see The Advertiser, Thursday, January 28

Do you think Dalkeith deserves the 'Carbuncle' award? Add you comments here and on the Carbuncle Awards website.



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  • Last Updated: 26 January 2010 3:09 PM
  • Source: Midlothian Advertiser
  • Location: Midlothian
 
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Farmernot,

28/01/2010 11:07:22
In a word Yes !!!!

A town centre caught up in a 60's time warp with nothing but cafe's, pubs and charity shops to look at.

The scenery at Jarnac Court is like something out of the dark ages. And as for the pigeons.......
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Sedov,

28/01/2010 15:05:57
#1 Nought wrong with the 60's - Elvis, a great Hearts team, full employment and Sam Campbell was still in his 50's!

Leave Dalkeith alone - its a cosy wee place.
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Haggismuncher,

Carbuncle Town 29/01/2010 14:20:39
It's not as if any of Midlothian's other mining towns or villages are particularly pleasing on the eye - but I dread to think what Dalkeith looked like before its costly facelift.
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