SHOPPINGCENTREThe business of retail destinations www.shopping-centre.co.uk February 2018 • £8.00 11 Fire 15 Food & Beverage 20 Christmas Liverpool fire prompts Food halls come The latest trends car park rethink to the fore for Christmas 2018 LDO, London Enlightening your vision Festive Lighting. Decoration. Animation & Grottos. CONTENTS Editor’s letter Editor Graham Parker 07956 231 078 easy to get carried away in the market there are some retailers [email protected] post-Christmas gloom. who fail because they’re just not Editorial Assistant It’s important to remember good enough at what they do. Iain Hoey that property is not the main Of course landlords should do 07757 946 414 reason retailers fail. A poorly what they can to save jobs and [email protected] managed supply chain, buying keep mall frontages alight for the Sales Manager decisions that fail to keep up benefit of their other tenants. Trudy Whiston with changing consumer tastes, But as the number of serial 01293 416 090 [email protected] uninspiring shopfits, shoddy mer- CVAs show, adjusting property chandising or getting sizing or costs is never going to solve Events Sales Manager We’ve become accustomed to a pricing wrong can all contribute the fundamental problems of a Graham Harvey 01474 247 032 spate of profit warnings and CVAs to a retail brand’s downfall. failing business. Retail is, after all, [email protected] in the weeks after Christmas, But blaming property is a con- Darwinism in action. but there seems to be more of venient decoy tactic for retailers Database Manager who would perhaps rather not Graham Parker Dywayne Ramsundar them than in recent years with 01737 852 342 high-profile brands looking to cut face up to failings elsewhere in Editor [email protected] property costs. So it would be their business. 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ISSN 0964-1793 | Printed by Stephens & George Ltd Shopping Centre, Goat Mill Road REGULARS Dowlais Merthyr Tydfil CF48 3TD 30 Data – Retail facts & figures www.shopping-centre.co.uk 34 Soapbox – NewRiver’s Emma Mackenzie believes Page 20 convenience is king 35 People – UKPC backs Euston’s Christmas lunch Join our Shopping Centre 35 Moves – All the latest job moves Linkedin group All rights reserved Follow us on Twitter © JLD Media 2018 @scnewsfeed SURYLGLQJ\RXZLWKFOHDULGHQWLùFDWLRQ of who’s who in your car park, from membership card holders to big spenders An innovative Pay +44 (0) 370 0427215 to Park solution [email protected] Parking Management Solutions www.g24.co.uk www.shopping-centre.co.uk FEBRUARY 2018 SHOPPING CENTRE | 3 NEWS Setback for Elephant & Castle Landsec Plans by a Dalancey-led consortium The proposals included around London; a new Northern Line entrance to redevelopment the Elephant & 170,000 sq ft of leisure, shops, restau- and ticket hall and improved access fashions a Castle shopping centre, along with rants; 979 new homes for rent; a new to Elephant & Castle mainline railway the adjacent London College of building for London College of Com- station as well as 2.5 acres of high store for Communications site, with a range munication and University of the Arts quality public realm. of retail, residential and educational Primark uses, have been knocked back by Southwark’s planning committee Landsec has signed Primark for despite the officers’ recommenda- a new anchor store at Bluewater. tion to approve. The committee will Due to open in 2019, the new reconvene on 30 January to confirm Primark store on Thames Walk – its grounds for refusal. which will have 46,000 sq ft of A spokesman for the developer said: net sales space – reflects Land- “We are disappointed that the commit- sec’s commitment to continually tee, by a narrow margin, rejected this evolve Bluewater to match the motion and recommendation. The pro- needs and expectations of guests. posals are a once in a lifetime opportu- The deal follows openings late last nity to deliver essential regeneration to year by US premium brands, Coach a key London location.” The developer and kate spade. pointed out that during the consultation Russell Loveland, portfolio direc- process over 90 per cent of responses tor at Landsec, said: “We are always were in favour. looking for ways to enhance our offer, from securing new premium brands to ensuring we provide the very best of affordable fashion. By providing a Two new entries for the Lexicon comprehensive, relevant and engag- ing offer, from brands to experiences, The Lexicon Bracknell has signed Partnership, a 50:50 joint venture with Bracknell Forest Council. Joint we ensure Bluewater remains the two new brands, Skechers and between Legal & General Capital and agents for The Lexicon are CBRE and number one destination.” Whittard of Chelsea, building on Schroder UK Real Estate Fund, working Lunson Mitchenall. a successful first four months of trading. The new signings take the total number of new brands the Lexicon has brought to the town centre to 38. Skechers, the American footwear company, will open in a 5,226-sq ft store on Braccan Walk while interna- tional tea, coffee and cocoa retailer, Whittard of Chelsea has signed for a 1,217-sq ft unit on The Avenue. Jessica Berney, head of retail at Schroder Real Estate, said the new let- tings “demonstrate the ongoing inter- est in the development from both cus- tomers and national and international retailers alike.” She said the Lexicon has already started to prove itself as the Berkshire destination of choice with footfall of 5.8 million achieved in the four months since launch with up to 16 million for the year projected. The new town centre was devel- oped by the Bracknell Regeneration 4 | SHOPPING CENTRE FEBRUARY 2018 www.shopping-centre.co.uk Intelligent Number Plate Recognition Tracking Technology has arrived Intelligent Car Detailed Data Park Protection Reporting Customer Car Park Behaviours Heat Maps Perceptive. Intelligent. Control. Intelligent Number Plate Recognition technology supersedes current capabilities of legacy ANPR enabling a signifi cantly enhanced service offering through a single solution. With a new view, you have clearer vision. Opening your eyes to the future of parking management [email protected] 0333 220 1030 www.ukparkingcontrol.com NEWS BL unveils Canada Water plans Jeremy British Land has opened consul- centre for the area with a wide range closer to Greenland Dock. tation on revisions to the Canada of uses including offices, retail, leisure, More detailed plans have also been Collins Water masterplan, which takes in community and public spaces as well released for the first three phases the Surrey Quays shopping centre in as a range of new homes. It is expected which will be built on the existing joins TCS Surrey Docks, south-east London. At that the masterplan will be built out in Surrey Quays shopping centre car the same time BL has exended the phases with a target completion date parks between Deal Porters Way and board site by buying the former Rother- of 2033. Canada Water Dock, and Roberts Close. hithe Police Station. Plans include a new open-air high Together, the first three detailed plots The site now extends to 46 acres street with national and independent will provide 269 new homes – includ- Town Centre Securities, the Leeds encompassing the Surrey Quays shop- retailers, restaurants and cafés linking ing affordable housing across a range of based property investment, de- ping centre, Surrey Quays leisure park, Surrey Quays and Canada Water sta- tenures – about 285,000 sq ft of work- velopment and car parking the Daily Mail’s SE16 Printworks and the tions. British Land is in discussions with space, a potential leisure centre, shops company has appointed Jeremy historic Dock Offices Tesco about relocating from the Surrey and places to eat and drink. A planning Collins as non-executive director. British Land plans a new urban Quays shopping centre site to a new site application is expected in Spring 2018. Collins has significant retail prop- erty development and management experience gained over the last 35 years, and TCS will be his first non-executive role as he embarks on a new portfolio career in 2018. He is stepping down as property director at JLP after almost 15 years during which the department store group’s estate grew from 24 shops to 51. He was previously head of retail and project director at Lend Lease between 1998 and 2003, when he led the development of Touchwood in Solihull, and is a past president of the British Council of Shopping Centres.