“A History Trip to Bannockburn? No…let’s go to Home Bargains
The owners of Home Bargains recently submitted plans to Stirling Council to build a new store as part of the Crookbridge development, plans which would bring two retail units, a garden centre and outdoor sales area, plus a 270-bay car park.
Campaigners Spirit of Scotland 1314 are calling for the council to reject the plans, saying it will further undermine the cultural and historic significance and ambience of the site. However, the council’s 2018 Local Development Plan allowed development in Crookbridge, and granted permission in 2024 to build a supermarket, car showroom, offices and a vehicle refuelling hub there.
The ‘significant and defining’ second day of the battle occurred between the watercourses of the Bannockburn and the Pelstream on the flat carse lands on the edge of Stirling near Crookbridge, and despite the Battle of Bannockburn site being designated under Historic Environment Scotland’s Inventory of Historic Battlefields BTL4, regulations to protect the battlefield seem completely ineffective. “
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