MetroCentre (shopping centre) Annan and Kilmarnock. Metrocentre has its own junction on the A1 road and northbound this road was widened to three lanes after the centre was built to cope with increased traffic levels. Even so, the centre is responsible for many journeys on the A1, a road through Gateshead which suffers from significant congestion at peak times. However a major widening of this stretch of the A1 was completed in June 2016 MetroCentre (shopping centre) intu Metrocentre, formerly MetroCentre and known on road signs as Metro Centre, is a shopping centre in Dunston Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, England. Located in Dunston,
Out-of-town shopping centres in the United Kingdom built. All other British shopping centres are in town and city centres. In the 1960s and '70s, most town and city centres had seen the development of a major shopping precinct. Redditch, in Worcestershire, had the Kingfisher Shopping Centre; Birmingham had the Bull Ring Centre; Manchester, the Arndale Centre; Newcastle, the Eldon Square Shopping Centre and Leeds, the Merrion Centre. Brent Cross, which opened in 1976, was the country's first out-of-town shopping centre. Construction of later out-of-town centres was facilitated by removal of regulations under the Thatcher government. In some cases such as Meadowhall in Sheffield (opened in 1990), they