The Peacocks (Woking)

Woking Shopping is a multi-storey shopping and leisure centre in Woking, Surrey, England construction of which completed in 1992 providing approximately 90 consumer service/retail units; nine varieties of daytime restaurants, fast food shops and cafés and a link to the area's largest theatre and cinema with entrances outside and within the centre itself.

Interior in the style of Aston Webb (d.1930). Three cream-white galleries, pair of cream-white escalators, paired glass-projection elevators with floor-offset white-grey banding to elevator column, glass multi-panel centre of alcoved and then recess-lined hipped roof.

History

The 500,000 square feet (46,000 m2) centre as Woking Shopping was opened in April 1992 and contained a department store, a 1200-seat theatre, three cinemas, a nightclub and a library.[1] A £1.5 million extension was added in 2010 that included a new entrance facing Town Square.[2][3] Developed by the London and Edinburgh Trust including a partnership with Woking Council it was designed by Chapman Taylor Partners. It was then owned by British Land until 2008 when it was sold to a private investor for £116 million.[4]

References
  1. "Car park care pays off at Woking". Highways and Transportation. 40: 2. 1993.
  2. "Woking shopping centre undergoes £1.5m extension". BBC News. 8 November 2010.
  3. "Peacocks centre shows off its new plumage". GetSurrey. 8 November 2010.
  4. "British Land sells The Peacocks, Woking". The Retail Bulletin. 16 June 2008.

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