Serpentine Green

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Serpentine Green shopping centre's North entrance

Serpentine Green is a shopping centre, opened February 8, 1999, located in the Hampton Hargate district of Southern Peterborough in England.

The Tesco Extra hypermarket is very large, with a floorspace of 27,700 m² (298,000 sq. ft.)

As well as a large Tesco outlet-the flagship branch and currently the largest store in the UK. A branch of both WHSmith and Next exist as well as the only Burger King in Peterborough, since the one in the city centre recently shut it doors [[1]]. The centre also houses a creche and a health centre in the Rotunda. A 2,100 space car park is provided for the numbers of visitors the centre receives, especially in the run-up to Christmas. During this time the road system is has difficulty accommodating the volume of traffic using the site, the car park only being able to be accessed by two round-about entrances. Pedestrian access is from Hampton Town Square.

The centre is situated off the A15 road from the A1139, Fletton Parkway, that skirts the south of Peterborough and runs between the centre and the Orton district of the city to the North.

[edit] History

The building is constructed on disused brick workings, from which the bricks known as flettons were made. The land was reclaimed, commencing in the 1960s, by building bunds of discarded and borrow clay, and infilling with a pulverised fuel ash slurry.

Surveys of residential and commercial property built on Serpentine Green and the surrounding Hamptons has shown significant subsidence, most notably the fuel forecourt (Tesco) which required additional reinforcement to its foundations.