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Factfile: Serpentine Green Shopping Centre
The construction started in October 1997 and the shopping centre opened 16 months later in February 1999. Some 6.5 million shoppers come through the doors of Serpentine Green each year.
The construction started in October 1997 and the shopping centre opened 16 months later in February 1999.
Some 6.5 million shoppers come through the doors of Serpentine Green each year.There are 2,100 parking places at the shopping centre, including 80 mother and baby spaces and 160 disabled parking spaces.
The centre management team has 30 members of staff including cleaners, security, maintenance and landscaping staff. There is one full-time gardener who looks after the green areas on the site and has three people to support him when they are needed.
Serpentine Green covers 360,000 sq ft and is the same size as the old Wembley Stadium. It is on a 39.6-acre site.
The Tesco Extra supermarket was the largest in the country when it first opened its doors in February 1999 covering 130,000 q ft, but lost this accolade when the company built a larger store in Bar Hill, Cambridge.
More details: www.peterboroughtoday.co.uk/serpentinegreen .
Feature: Serpentine Green celebrates a decade of shopping
Ann Molyneux-Jackson looks back on the past decade and how it is kept running 24 hours a day, 6 May 2009.
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As well as being the area's first 24-hour store, the Tesco Extra in Peterborough also had its first optician and dedicated sports section. About 700 staff were employed and there were 55 scanning check-outs, a kids' creche and a caf area.
Tesco celebrated the opening of its new store with the news that it had won its long battle for the right to sell big-name TVs and other electrical goods. Tesco was offering a Sony 29inch Pro-logic TV for 699.99 and an Amstrad 32inch widescreen TV was available for 599 – at least 200 less than on the High Street, which just goes to show how much the cost of TVs has come down in the last decade.
Mayor Mary Rainey cut the ribbon and officially opened the Tesco Extra store.
There are 35 retailers in the centre including Tesco Extra. Many of the shops in the centre including Outfit, H&M, Dorothy Perkins, Burton, Evans and Boots have been there since trading began. The two newest shops are Clarks and Ann Harvey. Only one shop unit – where Whittards used to be – is empty at the moment.
Some 51 security cameras cover the centre.
Serpentine Green was designed by Benoy, a London-based firm of architects and is owned by Spenhill Properties Ltd.
Promotional pictures for the centre only use people from Peterborough in them.
Celebrity chef Nigella Lawson and former glamour model Jordan and her husband Peter Andre have been among the celebrities to put in an appearance at Serpentine Green, both doing book signings.
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