New retail capacity

To monitor shopping provision we look at the amount of retail space there is in the city, what we have planned for and the number of vacant shops.

Core Strategy Target 7.1

To achieve an increase in retail capacity for comparison goods of between 57,000 and 92,000 sq m net by 2016.

This target is on track.

Plymouth is already over halfway to achieving this Core Strategy Target. Since 2006 an extra 6,182 sq m (gross) of retail floorspace has been provided in addition to the 26,416 sq m (gross) of floorspace provided with the opening of Drake Circus in 2006.

There has not been any additional comparison goods floorspace completed during this monitoring period. However, given the continued flat economic growth rates being experienced nationally, and the difficulties experienced by the construction industry this is not unexpected. The City Centre and University AAP, and the emerging Derriford and Seaton AAP allocate significant amounts of land for retail led development which set out how the remainder of the Core Strategy target will be met.

This page of the annual monitoring report was last updated December 2011.