Following recent press reports that H&M is coming to Parkway – Standard Life Investments can now confirm that the top fashion retailer has signed up for a 21,500 sq ft unit. H&M joins anchor store Debenhams and M&S at the 475,000 sq ft scheme, which is one of only three developments set to open in 2011.
A spokesperson for H&M commented “H&M is pleased to confirm that we have signed up to open in Standard Life Investments’ Parkway development in Newbury.
The store is scheduled to open in 2011 and we are very much looking forward to bringing our business concept of fashion and quality at the best price to Newbury – we hope that our arrival will be well received by local residents”
Standard Life Investments added “Our leasing strategy for Parkway has always been to secure tenants for the larger units, before starting discussions with occupiers for the standard units.
“Debenhams and M&S are in place as our major anchor stores, H&M has now taken one of the two large stores and we are in advanced negotiations with a major retailer for the other large unit – which fits in with this strategy.”
This is very good news. I can't wait to hear of more stores that we don't have already
I presume these stores offer unique enterprising merchandise that will make all this worth while. Hopefully, it will be very popular and we can glean all the lovely pollution and traffic it would offer.
Driving to Reading/Basingstoke, where these stores are now located, would cause far more pollution.
Not in concentration it wont. Cars stationary in traffic is more damaging than a car travelling at reasonable speed. Our roundabouts are all ready above EU standards for air pollution. This might just make it worse.
Not in concentration it wont. Cars stationary in traffic is more damaging than a car travelling at reasonable speed. Our roundabouts are all ready above EU standards for air pollution. This might just make it worse.
Do get real, we have a shopping centre coming on line, we want people to come to our town to spend money here and provide jobs and as a spin off add to local income. WBC however must plan for the increased traffic flows that their project will invite so they need to come up and very quickly, with a few infra structure improvements which are a little more sophisticated than closing the parkway bridge to private cars.
Do get real, we have a shopping centre coming on line, we want people to come to our town to spend money here and provide jobs and as a spin off add to local income.
Well I don't want to see a ferkin shopping mall! And all the ferkin traffic and all the ferkin pollution and all the ferkin in fill, etc..! And the last time I looked Newbury has some of the lowest unemployment figures around.
WBC however must plan for the increased traffic flows that their project will invite so they need to come up and very quickly, with a few infra structure improvements which are a little more sophisticated than closing the parkway bridge to private cars.
Sorry to break the bad news, it IS happening. Get over it.
We are not getting a shopping mall we are getting additional streets of shops.
"A shopping mall or shopping centre is one or more buildings forming a complex of shops representing merchandisers, with interconnecting walkways enabling visitors to easily walk from unit to unit, along with a parking area – a modern, indoor version of the traditional marketplace."
All of the new shops will be in streets open to the elements. This is what will make Newbury so different to other towns. You will get wet going from shop to shop when it is raining.
Sorry to break the bad news, it IS happening. Get over it.
I'd say you should get over the fact that some people, like me, are not obsessed with ferkin shopping at the weekend and resent what has happened in this regard! This is also a forum where people are encouraged and entitled to express opinions...and that is what I am doing. Belittling people like me, in the way you posted ( ) will only open up a potential flame war! And short of my getting a ban, you will lose!
All of the new shops will be in streets open to the elements. This is what will make Newbury so different to other towns. You will get wet going from shop to shop when it is raining.
This from the chairman of the Newbury Retailer's association. What a way to encourage people to shop in Newbury.
This from the chairman of the Newbury Retailer's association. What a way to encourage people to shop in Newbury.
Since you bring it up I don't understand how he manages to stay in that role when he generally seems to put down the town and discourage people from coming here and spending their money, at every opportunity?
I'm sure he must do more than discourage trade and generally insult the town in the media, but I've not seen any evidence of it. Perhaps I'm not looking in the right places though.
This from the chairman of the Newbury Retailer's association. What a way to encourage people to shop in Newbury.
Surely the blame for this must rest with the architect? In 2003 we had the chance of a proper shopping mall in Park Way of more moderate proportions, and it was expandable. The other thing about this proposal was that if it had been given planning permission, it would have been open for Christmas 2005. This means that we would have been enjoying the facilities for the last 5 years instead of having to wait while the heart and soul has been ripped out of the centre of Newbury with endless road closures and diversions and the loss of over 600 car parking spaces.
All of the new shops will be in streets open to the elements. This is what will make Newbury so different to other towns. You will get wet going from shop to shop when it is raining.
So they don't get wet going from shop to shop in other towns? Millions of shops throughout the world are in streets open to the elements and it doesn't seem to be a problem. Perhaps you should take a unit there and open an umbrella shop
Surely the blame for this must rest with the architect? In 2003 we had the chance of a proper shopping mall in Park Way of more moderate proportions, and it was expandable. The other thing about this proposal was that if it had been given planning permission, it would have been open for Christmas 2005. This means that we would have been enjoying the facilities for the last 5 years instead of having to wait while the heart and soul has been ripped out of the centre of Newbury with endless road closures and diversions and the loss of over 600 car parking spaces.
Well, I do agree that Newbury is a bit of a mess at the moment, but how do you propose to build a new street of shops without making a mess in the process? Also, Had this or similar been done in 2005 there would have been an equivilent amount of disruption and mess during that construction phase, regardless of when it was done.
I would also have thought that the current plan of a new street of uncovered walkways is more sympathetic to the existing town centre shops than a covered shopping mall. As you so rightly point out, if it rains people will get wet wherever they go, but if Parkway was a covered, self enclosed shopping mall in the style of The Oracle or Festival Place, then people would just stay inside the covered mall when it rains and not bother to go out to the other shops.
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This is also a forum where people are encouraged and entitled to express opinions...and that is what I am doing. Belittling people like me, in the way you posted ( 
) will only open up a potential flame war! And short of my getting a ban, you will lose! 
