Coopers Square is an indoor shopping centre located in Burton upon Trent

Burton upon Trent

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 , Staffordshire

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 , England

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. It is owned by the Grosvenor Group

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.

The shopping centre was opened in 1970 by HRH Princess Alexandra.

The total retail area for the shopping centre is 35,766 m² (385,000 sq ft).

The shopping centre has 800 car parking spaces, with a ground car park as well as a rooftop car park.

History

In 1969, construction began on Cooper's Square shopping centre. It was built in three phases between the years of 1969 and 1974. It originally consisted of 46 small units and 5 big units. At this time only the underhill walk mall existed.

In 1979 Cooper's Square had an extension into the former Sainsbury's unit now a W H Smith

W H Smith

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 and two more units were also built, which now have been knocked together to form a larger unit, now where Superdrug

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 is located.

In 1982 Sainsbury's moved to a new unit that had just been built, and the former Sainsbury's unit became a Woolworths (supermarket) .

In 1996 Sainsbury's moved again to a new unit that had been built across the road. The former unit was split up and became a BHS

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, JJB Sports

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, (now a HMV) and Au Natural (now poundworld).

Malls

Cooper's Square consists of five 'malls'. These are:

• Underhill Walk
• Swan Walk
• St Modwens Walk
• Dame Paulet Walk
• Cooper's Square

Stores

Underhill Walk:

• BHS
• HMV
• Poundworld
• Superdrug
• W H Smith
• T Mobile
• Vodafone
• Card Factory
• B&M Bargins
• Early Learning Centre
• GAME
• Mothercare
• Holland & Barrat
• 3 Store
• Thorntons
• Vision Express
• Subway
• Boots

Dame Paulet Walk:

• Boots
• The Fragrance Shop
• Supercuts
• Gamestation
• The Key Shop
• Julian Graves
• Marks & Spencer

St. Modwens Walk:

• Marks & Spencer
• Wallis
• Unique Soles
• Millets
• The Carphone Warehouse
• Next
• Primark
• Halifax
• Santander
• The Watch Hospital
• Ilkeston Cooperative Travel
• Optical Express
• The Body Shop
• Claire's
• Ernest Jones
• Jeff Baines
• Card Party
• Charlie Browns

Cooper's Square:

• Sky
• Waterstones
• Greggs
• Bank
• JD Sports
• Pattiserie Valerie

Swan Walk:

• New Look
• Quiz
• Bags etc.
• Accesorize / Monsoon
• River Island
• Magenta
• Heaven Scent
• o2
• Clinton Cards
• Topshop & Topman
• Republic
• The Orange Shop
• Ann Summers
• The Little Bag Co.
• Warren James
• Phones 4 U
• Ministry of Design
• Timpson

Other Units:

• Peacocks
• Oxfam

Proposed Extention

Planning application was submited in summer 2012, for a 110000 sq ft extention on coopers square shopping centre. The shopping centre will extend out into the car park, and into some shops on nearby station street (The Royal Bank of Scotland, A dry cleaners, two estate agents and a night club.) The extention hopes to create a new modern fascade to the shopping centre.

In the extentions 11 new, two storey units are planned, as well as a new 55000 sq ft department store, (confirmed as Debenhams

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). There will be a new rooftop car park and the current ground car park will be refurbished and landscaped. There will be a new car park entrance/exit on union street, and a new taxi rank for station street.

Overall the extention hopes to create 200 full time and part time jobs.