Swan Shopping Centre Explained

Swan Shopping Centre
Location:	Yardley, Birmingham
Owner:	Tesco (Spenhill)
Floor Area:	80000square feet
Website:	https://www.swancentreyardley.co.uk/

The Swan Shopping Centre is an 80000square feet shopping centre in Yardley, Birmingham, which opened in Spring 2012.^[1]

With its landmark high rise building, it stands on the A45 Coventry Road at its intersection with the A4040 Outer Ring Road (also the Birmingham Outer Circle Number 11 bus route), known as Swan Island.

In-store Events

Since its opening there has been one event inside the Swan Shopping Centre. For the Diamond Jubilee of Elizabeth II Weekend, Free Radio hosted a "street party" inside the shopping centre with artificial grass. There were many other things happening too with music, having your picture taken as the Queen and more.^[2]

Current Stores

There are 21 retail units in the shopping centre.^[3]

External links

• Swan Shopping Centre website
• Planning application for redevelopment (pdf)
• 1890 Ordnance Survey map of the Swan area – Swan Inn can clearly be seen on the map.

Notes and References

1. Web site: The Swan Centre. 16 August 2011.
2. Web site: Free Radio's coverage of the event. 16 August 2011.
3. Web site: Tesco Swan Centre - Yardley . 6 June 2013 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20130509174943/http://www.swancentreyardley.co.uk/stores.aspx . 9 May 2013 .