Scrapped - plan to have greenery growing on front wall of Grimsby's Freshney Place shopping centre

 

Instead of this . . .

A proposal to plant a 'green' panel of climbing plants outside Freshney Place shopping centre has been scrapped. 

The idea was submitted as part of the planned re-design of the shopping centre, but it has now been ditched. 

Says a report: "It was decided that maintenance over the entrance could be an issue." 

                                                 

. . .Freshney Place shopping centre will have this

                                                            

The Grimsby News says: How unenterprising of the urban designers. The proposed 'green' panel was modest, but at least it showed a modicum of imagination and environmental awareness. The adopted idea is dull and sterile. The whole of the wall should be alive with creepers and other plants. As envisaged, the front of the building looks more like the entrance to a college than a shopping centre. Is this really the way to inspire the shoppers of tomorrow?