Out of Town Shopping Centres

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Out of Town Shopping Centres
Forestside, Belfast
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The History of Retailing

• Development of Retail
• The Corner Shop
• Open Shelf Revolution
• Mini Markets
• Decentralisation
• Supermarkets
• Retail Warehouses
• Regional Centres and Retail Parks.

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The Effect on Retailing

• The changing face of shopping
• Who feels the effect?
• The city centre
• The corner shop
• The long term effect
• Some implemented schemes
• Town centre management

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Environmental Consequences

• Benefits
• Abundant on site parking
• Relieves town centre traffic congestion
• Costs
• Loss of countryside and agricultural land
• Visual obstruction
• Serious localized traffic congestion
• Contributes to urban sprawl

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Social Consequences

• Benefits
• Increased Choice
• Late night shopping
• Clean functional buildings
• Single Storey Buildings
• Fun Shopping
• Costs
• Excludes those without a car
• Traditional service is lacking

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Economic Consequences

• Benefits
• Employment
• Investment
• Encourages spending
• Costs
• Threatens other forms of retailing
• Supermarkets import goods
• Encourages car use at the cost of public
  transport

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The Future of Retailing

• Northern Ireland needs no more out of town
  shopping centres
• The example of the English situation
• The Department of the Environment is committed to
  protecting the VIABILITY and VITALITY of town
  centres
• Key criteria for the development of out of town
  centres
• The conclusion

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Sources

• www.forestside.co.UK
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  shopping centres. Business Telegraph. (6.2.1996)
• Grigsby, J.(1999) Planners face challenge of
  consumerism. The Times. (26.10.1999)
• Schiller, R(1988) Retail decentralization. A
  property view. Geographical Journal. 154(1),
  p17-19
• Wedd, George(1998), The Supermarket Revolution,
  Contemporary Review, Feb http//www.britannica.com
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