Beaumont Shopping Centre

Coordinates: 52°39′59″N 1°09′59″W / 52.6663°N 1.1665°W / 52.6663; -1.1665
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Beaumont Shopping Centre logo, used from 2011.
The previous logo, still in use around the centre as of 2011.

Beaumont Shopping Centre is located in Beaumont Leys, on the edge of Leicester. The 301,099 sq ft (27,973.0 m2) shopping centre is owned by British Land and managed by GVA.[1][2]

Facilities

There are three free car parks located within the main shopping area. The main shopping area has public toilets, Tesco also has some toilets located near the customer services desk.

Stores

Major stores

Argos, Boots, Brantano Footwear, Iceland, McDonald's, New Look, Next, Peacocks, Phones4U, Poundland, Santander, Shoe Zone, Superdrug, Tesco Extra, The Carphone Warehouse, Wilkinson and Yours.

Minor stores

Beaumont Flowers, Bonmarche, Boots Opticians, Card Factory, Cash Zone, Costa Coffee, Elliott Reeve, Eyecheck, First Choice Travel, Fish 'n' Chips, Granary Pets, H. Samuel, Keepers Lodge, Mark Jarvis, O2, Runway, PaperBox, Post Office, Sally Hair & Beauty, Specsavers, Subway, The Co-operative Travel, Thomson Holidays and W H Smith.

Beaumont Market

The centre has an outdoor market area which opened in 1984.[3] The market is open from Wednesday to Sunday. The main area is under cover and has over 60 stalls with a wide range of products on sale such as fruit and vegetables, games and DVDs, household items and general bric-a-brac stall. There is also usually a butchers van.

On Sundays and public holidays between March and November, a car boot sale for used goods is held in the car park located next to the market area. When the car park is used for the car boot sale, the market is also usually open. In additional a car boot sale is also held on Thursdays throughout the year, under cover at Beaumont Market.[3]

Other

Both Matalan and Gala Bingo are located across the road but neither is officially part of Beaumont Shopping Centre.[4]

Public transport

Beaumont Shopping Centre has a bus terminus that has seven stands served by a number of buses which run into and around the outskirts of Leicester.

References

  1. ^ "Commitment to site is extended". Leicester Mercury. 14 April 2011.
  2. ^ "Beaumont Leys Shopping Centre". British Land. Retrieved 24 May 2011.
  3. ^ a b "Beaumont Leys Market". Leicester City Council. Retrieved 24 May 2011.
  4. ^ "Leicester shopping centre parking fine is criticised by disabled woman". Leicester Mercury. 16 December 2010.

External links

52°39′59″N 1°09′59″W / 52.6663°N 1.1665°W / 52.6663; -1.1665