The owners of the Inshes Retail Park have promised to launch a “full investigation” into why a pane of glass fell from its canopy at the park.
Tuesday’s incident comes less than two months after a similar incident saw another Inverness retail park closed for the same reason.
Highland Council issued a dangerous buildings notice that will remain in effect until the Buildings Standards is satisfied there is no danger to the public.
A spokeswoman said: “All the units that have the same type of canopy have been shut (Hobby craft to Matalan). There is no evidence as to what has caused the panel to fail.”
An Aberdeen Standard Investments, the owners of Inshes, spokesman said: “We have launched a full investigation into why the glass shattered.
“We have fenced off the area and installing temporary protective covering in terms of the rest of the canopy which will allow all the shops to re-open.
He added: “Given a similar incident occurred at another retail park in Inverness only two months ago we understand there will be concerns.”
Councillor Duncan Macpherson said: “It beggars belief that this could happen again so soon after, especially when every Retail Park Senior Management Team in Scotland must have been watching with interest.
“This incident thankfully happened out of hours and was reported to Police by a member of the public at 7.12am.
“This falling glass panel could have had catastrophic consequences if it had fallen on a child, a mother and child, or onto a frail OAP.”
The park remains open, except for Matalan, Deichmann, and Hobbycraft, despite shoppers taking to social media to express their concerns about the glass canopy.
The store manager at Deichmann Shoes, Mandy Beeston, wrote: “It’s 10 foot high, I watched it on cctv, just fell.”
Gordon Taylor, an actor, wrote: “A risk assessment must have surely been done after the first and second incidents. I can’t imagine it not prompting a change of materials there and then.”
On November 14 last year a glass panel “exploded” above shoppers at the Inverness Centre retail park, leaving one man injured.
Subsequently the whole park was closed for almost five days as all glass was removed from the canopy above the walkway.