CZWG and Holder Mathias win permission for Barnsley town centre scheme
Barnsley town centre by CZWG and Holder Mathias
Councillors swayed by “oriental kasbah” proposals
A proposed £70 million redevelopment of Barnsley town centre designed by CZWG and Holder Mathias has won planning permission.
The 52,000sq m scheme will replace an existing shopping centre with an indoor market, a shopping centre, six-screen cinema, cafés, restaurants and an 800-space car park.
Wilson Bowden Developments and Ashcroft Estates have formed a joint venture, the 1249 Regeneration Partnership, to build the project in the South Yorkshire town.
The developers compared the proposed indoor market to an “oriental kasbah”, referring to escalators rising through a three-storey market to restaurants on the top floor.
CZWG partner Piers Gough said: “Whilst being deliberately exciting in form and colour, the scheme is completely open, welcoming and easy to navigate by all, seamlessly joining up with the centre of the town.”
The project is due for completion in 2015.
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Readers' comments (4)
I'm glad I don't live in Barnsley - what have the residents done to suffer this? The third image is particularly bland and banal...
"The developers compared the proposed indoor market to an “oriental kasbah”, referring to escalators rising through a three-storey market to restaurants on the top floor."
Can anyone name an oriental kasbah with escalators? Is this a property of kasbahs? No - but escalators rising through shopping centres are a property of every dull shopping centre ever built - just like this one.
CZWG partner Piers Gough said: “Whilst being deliberately exciting in form and colour, the scheme is completely open, welcoming and easy to navigate by all, seamlessly joining up with the centre of the town.”
Well if Piers says it is exciting, we should believe him, despite the images - he may be referring to forms and colours that are not illustrated. Then again......
"Whilst......"???? Since when were excitingness of form and colour related to unwelcoming and difficult to navigate buildings??
BD, why are you parrotting this nonsense. Is your idea of journalism nothing more than copy-pasting the quotes out of press releases , irrespective of how little sense they actually make?
Thats a hat trick of awful projects from CZWG in the last couple of weeks.
The central looking area appears quite theatrical with varying levels and steps - many of our centres for people could do with much more of this treatment.