Didcot power station named as one of UK's worst eyesores (From Oxford Mail)

Didcot power station named as one of UK's worst eyesores

6:00am Monday 22nd March 2010 in

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DIDCOT power station was yesterday named the seventh-worst eyesore in Britain.

Beautiful Britain magazine quizzed 5,000 people and found concrete carriageways, including Birmingham’s Spaghetti Junction, came top in a poll of structures and buildings that blight the UK landscape.

The Didcot site is made up of two power stations, with gas- and coal-fired Didcot A the older of the two.

It was designed by Frederick Gibberd.

Building work was completed in 1968 at a cost of £104m, and the station’s iconic cooling towers can be seen from across south Oxfordshire.

Together, the two power stations produce electricity to meet the needs of more than three million people.

Battersea Power Station, by the River Thames, came second in the list and M1 service stations third.

Wind farms and electricity pylons came fourth and fifth respectively and, in sixth, the Millennium Dome.

The survey was commissioned by the magazine, which backs keeping “red tape” to prevent more eyesores appearing across Britain’s landscape.