Town centre development of indoor shopping malls in major towns and cities. Examples include the Manchester Arndale Centre, the St. James Centre in Edinburgh and the Bullring Centre in Birmingham. They tended to be constructed in a Brutalist or Modernist fashion reflecting the architectural styles of the period. During the Thatcher government of the 1980s, a change in planning policy allowed competing out-of-town shopping and leisure centres to be developed. Examples include the Metro Centre in Gateshead, the Merry Hill Shopping Centre in Dudley, and the Gyle Centre in Edinburgh. Developments of this type have, in a number of places, resulted in
The Shires Shopping Centre was granted by West Wiltshire District Council in 2007 for the development of a site on Bythesea Road, to be named "The Shires Gateway". Having published the scheme and consulted affected businesses, the body agreed to the developer's intention to provide: The Shires Shopping Centre The Shires Shopping Centre is the central, covered shopping centre in Trowbridge, Wiltshire. The centre includes an adjoining 1,000-space car park and fronts onto the retail-centred 'high street' which has many banks and cafés. The county town's main museum is within the centre. On average approximately 120,000 shoppers visit each week. Excavations before the construction