Swinton Shopping Centre is a shopping centre located between Chorley Road

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 (A6) and Chadwick Street in Swinton

Swinton, Greater Manchester

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, near Manchester

Manchester

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, England

England

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It is built around Swinton Central Library that is on the site. It houses a diverse number of shops, with many specialising in a certain area of life. It also holds a small open air market.

Facilities

Parking

Swinton Shopping Centre decided to introduce pay and display system in 2005 until 2010 for the use of the three car packs that are on the site. They are open to members of the public 24 hours a day

24 Hours A Day

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 and seven days a week, including public holiday

Public holiday

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s. In 2010 the control of the car parks returned to GVA Grimley and they returned the site to free parking.

When the centre introduced the pay and display system around 4,000 people demanded that they remove the pay and display system. Traders at Swinton Shopping Centre said that business had fallen by up to a third since the introduction of pay-and-display in 2005.

As of August 2010 the original owner of the site, GVA Grimley, has regained control of the land and parking meters were removed from the centre.

Disabled access

The precinct is mainly on ground floor level and easily accessible for disabled patrons via the main entrance on Station Road (B5231).

Shops

Swinton Shopping Centre has many shops that focus in these areas:

• Fashion
• Financial services (banks etc)
• Food and drink
• Hair and beauty
• Health
• Household goods
• Jewellery
• Leisure
• Music, books, cards and gifts
• Sports
• Travel.

Market

Swinton Shopping Centre operates a small open air market every Tuesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday from 9.00am until 4.30pm. It is located in one of the large spaces that the precinct has. In recent years the market has had a stand-alone roof fitted over the market stalls.

Swinton Library

Swinton Library located in the centre of the Swinton Shopping Centre built in 1970.

Services

• Adult fiction and non-fiction books
• Art gallery
• Bookshop
• Children's book and tape packs
• Children's fiction and non-fiction books
• DVDs
• Exhibition space
• Fax
• Holiday activities for children
• Internet access
• Language cassettes
• Merchandise
• Music CDs
• Parents' collection
• Personal book buying service
• Photocopying
• Public noticeboard
• Reference collection
• Talking Books
• Teenage collection
• Under 5s Story Time
• Videos