Town Centres

South has a wealth of well established town centres, benefiting from an excellent supply of office space and a strong retail focus.

Richmond upon Thames Spread across 21 miles of River Thames frontage, Richmond is an internationally renowned town centre with prestigious shopping facilities. Boasting the highest proportion of independent shops in London, many designers such as Danieli, Gioia and Lionel Jacobs have found Richmond the perfect place to set up their second boutique outside Bond Street.

Richmond makes splendid use of its positioning on the river front, with many restaurants and bars. It has excellent transport links to the centre of London, good office accommodation and an established business infrastructure. Wimbledon Home to the world famous tennis championships, Wimbledon has excellent shopping facilities incorporated within its two major retail Centres; Centre Court Shopping and Merton Abbey Mills, and has an abundance of bars and restaurants. Attractive Wimbledon Village with its boutiques, fine dining and elegant houses, is a much sought after residential area. Croydon is the largest office and retail centre in the south east, outside central London. Many companies, including Direct Line, Mondial, Nestlé, Mott McDonald and Utell have based their UK HQ in Croydon. The Whitgift and shopping centres feature all the leading names in modern retailing, making Croydon (which has a total of 1.7 million sq ft of retail space) one of the leading shopping centres in the country!

Home to the highly successful Clocktower complex, the famous Warehouse Theatre and the internationally renowned London Mozart Players, Croydon is one of the liveliest and best served centres of culture in London. has a 1750 seat concert hall and 763 seat theatre. Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames Kingston town centre sits on the bank of the River Thames. With the opening of the Rotunda and the new theatre it offers a vibrant and exciting nightlife. The excellent shopping centre contains many well known stores, including John Lewis, and is the most popular shopping destination outside London.

Kingston is an exciting place in which to do business. There is an excellent mix of office space available, including serviced offices, and the area buzzes with activity day and night. Sutton Known as ‘London’s greenest borough’ Sutton is a diverse area offering all the opportunities of city living, with the added advantage of being surrounded by beautiful open spaces, woods and parks.

Sutton is also a major office location, with over 200,000 square metres of office floor space and excellent transport links, including the A24, A217 and A232, numerous rail services to central London and bus services serving many key destinations. Bromley Bromley, London’s largest Borough, is diverse and full of contrast. With over 35 square miles of protected countryside it enjoys all the advantages of a busy London borough, with a bustling high street and a superb shopping centre – The Glades.

There are many opportunities to wine and dine in the numerous and varied bars and restaurants, including Chapter One, South London’s only Michelin Star restaurant and holder of the AA Restaurant of the Year 2002 Award.

Served by excellent rail and bus services it is an ideal and popular area in which to do business. [email protected] ©2004

Autumn 2004