Swinton Shopping Centre is a shopping centre located between Chorley Road (A6) and Chadwick Street in Swinton, near Manchester, England.
It is built around Swinton Central Library that is on the site. It houses a diverse number of shops, with many specialising in a certain area of life. It also holds a small open air market.
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Parking
Swinton Shopping Centre decided to introduce pay and display system in 2005 until 2010 for the use of the three car packs that are on the site. They are open to members of the public 24 hours a day and seven days a week, including public holidays. In 2010 the control of the car parks returned to GVA Grimley and they returned the site to free parking.
When the centre introduced the pay and display system around 4,000 people demanded that they remove the pay and display system. Traders at Swinton Shopping Centre said that business had fallen by up to a third since the introduction of pay-and-display in 2005.[1]
As of August 2010 the original owner of the site, GVA Grimley, has regained control of the land and parking meters were removed from the centre. [2]
Disabled access
The precinct is mainly on ground floor level and easily accessible for disabled patrons via the main entrance on Station Road (B5231).[3]
Swinton Shopping Centre has many shops that focus in these areas:
Swinton Shopping Centre operates a small open air market every Tuesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday from 9.00am until 4.30pm. It is located in one of the large spaces that the precinct has. In recent years the market has had a stand-alone roof fitted over the market stalls.
Swinton Library located in the centre of the Swinton Shopping Centre built in 1970.[5]
Services