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
Royal Priors Shopping Centre indoor space. The centre was built on the former site of slum housing which was purpose built between 1810 and 1840 by the wealthy of the town to house the poor and non-live in servants. Royal Priors Shopping Centre Royal Priors Shopping Centre is a two storey shopping precinct located in the town of Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, England. It in located in the centre of the town on the main street, The Parade. Opened in 1988 by Queen Elizabeth II at a cost of £35 million, there is a seven storey car park adjacent to it and the towns bus