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New leisure for Gloucester The Peel Group is planning a £60m investment to create a new leisure and shopping quarter – The Quayside – at the Gloucester Quays designer outlet centre. Proposals include 11 restaurants, a 10-screen, 1,600-seat cinema and new shops. Work is expected to start early next year with The Quayside scheduled to be open for business by autumn 2013.


Tesco to anchor Taplow Land Securities has submitted a planning application for redevelopment of the Bishop Centre in Taplow, Berkshire. The plans outline replacing the existing 95,000-sq ft shopping centre with a new development measuring 131,500 sq ft, of which Tesco has already agreed to take 55,000 sq ft. The remaining space will be divided up into approximately 10 to 12 smaller retail and leisure units.


Mixed-use in Trowbridge The 10-acre site of the former Bowyers pork pie factory in Trowbridge is set to be transformed into a new leisure-led mixed-use development under plans unveiled by developer Prorsus. The 155,000-sq ft ‘Innox Riverside’, will comprise of a 31,000 sq ft 8-screen multiplex cinema, at least six 100-seat family restaurants, an 80,000 sq ft Morrisons foodstore, coffee shops, a family pub and new civic spaces. Angus Horner, managing director of Prorsus said: “Our vision for Innox Riverside is simple – to transform the derelict Bowyers site into a vibrant place to meet, eat, relax, shop and watch movies.” Competion is due in 2013.


Two major departures in CSC shake-up


Capital Shopping Centres has confirmed that executive director Kay Chaldecott and Caroline Kirby, property director of CSC London, are to leave the business. Kirby’s departure came barely


a fortnight after Chaldecott’s. It was announced at the same time that Mike Butterworth of Peel Holdings, previously chairman of CSC Trafford, would take over as chief operating officer. After the Peel merger at


the time of the Trafford Centre sale, CSC was divided into two operating departments – North and South. Under the latest round of changes CSC is returning to a single centralised operating structure. In its latest statement CSC


said Kirby planned “to seek new challenges and opportunities within the retail property industry.” During the course of her


career as property director at CSC, Kirby gained extensive experience across CSC’s regional shopping centres including involvement in some major investment transactions


such as Chapelfield, Norwich; Manchester, Arndale; The Mall, Cribbs Causeway and the Trafford Centre, and the recent development and leasing of St Davids, Cardiff and the southern extension to Eldon Square, Newcastle. She said: “I have thoroughly


enjoyed my 17 years at the company. It has been a great pleasure and honour to work


with so many great colleagues on some of the UK’s finest shopping centres. I am very much looking forward to the new opportunities ahead.” Chief executive David Fischel


said: “Caroline has demonstrated a great deal of passion for CSC and I would like to thank her for her loyalty, commitment and drive, and for her part in the growth of the company.”


ROI Team polled more than 100 shoppers in The Square, Birmingham, asking them the question ‘Should shopping centres be allowed to charge for the facilities they provide?’ Citing toilets, baby-change and wi-fi as examples. Almost 9 out of 10 shoppers


interviewed were against the proposal.


Among the youngest


shoppers (aged under 25) opposition is almost


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unanimous. However shoppers over 25 are a bit more understanding of the managers’ dilemma - although four out of five still opposed the idea.


While there is opposition to the idea from all shopper types, the strongest opposition comes from the cash-strapped ‘Hard Pressed’ category. The ‘Comfortably Off’ type is most likely to be relaxed about charges – but even here four out of five are opposed.


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