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Interior in the style of Aston Webb (d.1930).[citation needed] Three cream-white galleries, pair of cream-white escalators, paired glass-projection elevators with floor-offset white-grey banding to elevator column, glass multi-panel centre of alcoved and then recess-lined hipped roof.

Woking Shopping or The Peacocks is a multi-storey shopping and leisure centre in Woking, Surrey, England construction of which completed in 1992 providing approximately 90 consumer service/retail units; nine varieties of daytime restaurants, fast food shops and cafés and a link to the area's largest theatre and cinema with entrances outside and within the centre itself.

History

The 500,000 square feet (46,000 m2) centre as The Peacocks was opened in April 1992 and contained a department store, a 1200-seat theatre, three cinemas, a nightclub and a library.[1] A £1.5 million extension was added in 2010 that included a new entrance facing Town Square.[2][3] Developed by the London and Edinburgh Trust including a partnership with Woking Council it was designed by Chapman Taylor Partners. It was then owned by British Land until 2008 when it was sold to a private investor for £116 million.[4]

References

  1. ^ "Car park care pays off at Woking". Highways and Transportation. 40: 2. 1993.
  2. ^ "Woking shopping centre undergoes £1.5m extension". BBC News. 8 November 2010.
  3. ^ "Peacocks centre shows off its new plumage". GetSurrey. 8 November 2010.
  4. ^ "British Land sells The Peacocks, Woking". The Retail Bulletin. 16 June 2008.

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