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
Kingdom Shopping Centre shopping complex. Glenrothes bus station is located next to the southeast end of the centre. Key stores in the Kingdom Centre include Argos, Boots, Sports Direct, Iceland, JD Sports and New Look. A Marks and Spencers Simply Food store and a parade of restaurants is being built adjacent to the shopping centre at North Street, due for completion by the end of 2018. Glenrothes town centre was originally to be built on the same principles of the English new towns such as Stevenage and Bracknell. The centre would comprise a series of shopping streets and squares separated from traffic. The