Talk:List of shopping centres in the United Kingdom by size

April 2019 update + new sources/references added
Decided to do a tidy up of this page, the talk page also had a lot of old comments (some of which were answered and resolved). I've gone through and updated nearly all of the centres with up-to-date information, since noticing news papers are quoting this (out of date) page i felt its worth updating it.

Footfall / Annual Visitors
For at least the top 10, I've gained this information from [GlobalData 2018]. They seem to be reliable, up to date and have an accurate count. For the sake of consistency ive used them where possible.

Annual Reports
For intu I found that the size of the stores they advertise on their website, for example Merry Hill https://www.intugroup.co.uk/en/our-centres/uk-overview/intu-merry-hill-west-midlands/ only mentions the 1.4m sq ft, but this is the size from when they bought it and it hasn't been updated. I've found intu's Annual reports to be more accurate. Hammerson are the same and you're better off going by the annual report. I've updated this for hammerson, westfield and intu. Jayflux (talk) 14:44, 20 April 2019 (UTC)

Getting accurate footfall data
Accurate footfall data (how many people visited per year) is becoming increasingly difficult to get hold of.

The big groups don't include this data in their annual reports anymore, or some do and some don't. This means we need to rely on other sources of information. News articles aren't great for this because they usually print a *headline grabbing* figure, which doesn't represent the year-average, for e.g Christmas Footfall.

I've used GlobalData to provide the numbers for 2018, they seem reliable in their research and hopefully they'll continue and do the hard work for us, but if they stop then i'm not sure where this data will come from. Trying to get historic data (pre-2018) is also hard considering GlobalData only took this on in 2018 and not the year before.

An option could be to remove this column altogether

Jayflux (talk) 15:53, 29 July 2019 (UTC)

Dec 2019 update
http://internaltools.globaldata.com/static/GlobalData-Consulting-Top-50-UK-Shopping-Centres-Report-2019-Summary-Report-December-2019-3.pdf is now out. Looks like footfall figures in this edition are not explicitly shown. It might be because this data is difficult to attain — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.47.6.126 (talk) 19:56, 28 December 2019 (UTC)

June 2021 update
I've decided to remove footfall data altogether, it is not needed to answer the topic and was an added-extra. The data is no longer freely available, nor mentioned in annual accounts and only springboard which is subscription-only provides this). Collecting this data from news articles is also inaccurate as they don't represent an average year (Christmas for e.g). So it's better off just not having it. Jayflux (talk) 18:45, 21 June 2021 (UTC)

International Property Measurement Standards for Retail Buildings
Editors of this list may like to know that there are newly published International Property Measurement Standards for retail buildings, see and Talk:List of largest shopping malls.

By the way, thanks to everyone who quietly tries to keep this list valid and tidy. JonH (talk) 21:50, 5 October 2019 (UTC)

Annual Reports
These often have sizes of their properties inside, hopefully useful when collecting information.


 * intu, Annual Report 2018. This report records the internal area from each of their main properties (Page 8). Information is also shown on their respective websites, the annual report however is more accurate.
 * Hammerson Annual Report 2019. This report records the internal area from each of their main properties (Page 186).
 * Westfield Group Full Results 2018. Information shows the GLA (Gross Lettable Area) on page 109
 * The Mall Corporation Ltd, Our Malls. This section of their business website shows the size of each centre. Jayflux (talk) 18:52, 21 June 2021 (UTC)

Jayflux (talk) 18:52, 21 June 2021 (UTC)