Sainsbury’s plan to install a public art feature on its Blackpool store, including ocean-inspired artwork and advertising panels, has been rejected by Blackpool Council due to poor quality design.
Supermarket giant Sainsbury’s has had plans to install a public art feature on the front of its Blackpool town centre store vetoed by town hall planners. Planning applications by the retailer for a piece of ocean-inspired artwork and nine advertising panels wrapping around the ground floor of the supermarket on Talbot Road have been refused by Blackpool Council.
Sainsbury’s had proposed to install an ocean-inspired backdrop, with weathered steel columns in front echoing the steelwork at Blackpool Tower, and at varying heights to mimic the Big Dipper. It added the scheme would also protect the glazing from vandalism as “due to the building’s design and the thermal properties of the specialist glass, replacing broken panes is not a simple process.” Hoardings have been surrounding the supermarket for around a year since the proposals were first put forward in autumn 2023.
A report setting out the decision says: “The two elements together would completely obscure the ground floor façade in complete contradiction of the original design ethos of the building.”
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