Grosvenor Centre

So run down and grotty, not a fun place to go for a good shopping experience, I only go there if i need to buy essentials but would rather travel further to MK for a much better environment and shops…

Great shopping mall with the top high street shops with great prices for the latest fashion and designer brands. I always go there for my shopping!

Fairly good, as shopping centres go. Can get quite ‘chavy’ at times though. Staying clear of the bus station, which is ajoined to the shopping centre, is a must.

This is a grim, disappointing, dated shopping centre, total lack of variety and quality shops. There are far too many empty units and it has no atmosphere. The children’s entertainment laid on during school holidays can be quite good though — but a bit hit and miss! Escalators are often out of order, the whole place feels 20 years out of date and generally a bit grubby. A refurbishment is long overdue. There are not enough places to sit down. The toilets are always overcrowded with long queues. Parking is very expensive as well and the car park is also badly designed.

Not the greatest shopping centre but the largest in Northampton. Beatties is a good shop — traditional department centre. The rest is much of a muchness. Good toilets. A café in the centre but not great. Convenient and that’s about all. Rubbish lifts.

The Grosvenor Centre is situated right in the heart of Northampton and is directly connected to the bus station.
As a shopping centre, it isn’t a bad place to go with a lot of the big named shops being situated there. The main problem with the centre is the lack of originality with the range of shops on offer, but this is starting to become the case with most shopping centres now and it’s rare to find an original gem of a shop on a high street or shopping centre.
When you leave the centre this also takes you either right on to the market square or on to the main shopping high street.
Unfortunately, it could do with a bit of an upgrade as far as the décor is concerned as it does look somewhat out-​dated, which does let it down quite badly.

An average sized shopping centre in the heart of Northampton which houses some of the more common high street shops such as Boots, HMV, WH Smith and Topshop. The mall is in desparate need of a makeover and looks very tired and drab these days. The style of the building is very dated and it is quite dirty — you will see chewing gum all over the floor and the toilets aren’t great. The shops are OK but very bog-​standard and unremarkable but parking is convenient and there is a bus station at the top. I would avoid the bus station if you can though because it is even grubbier and popular with youths who use it as a hang-​out area.

There are two shopping centres in Northampton, and this is the larger of them. It’s on 2 floors for the shopping, and then you can (sort of) get to the carparking using the lifts from within the shopping centre as well. I say sort of because the car parking there is a nightmare it’s kind of split between two different sections and is really confusing if you don’t know what you’re doing.
The shops are well to be honest a bit ordinary, all the places you’d expect to find and very little else boots, smiths, various clothes shops etc. The sort of places you find on most highstreets anywhere. There’s nothing to make the place stand out. The market outside the doors is more interesting and now they’re talking of removing most of that so poor old Northampton will loose half their market for some giant viewing screen or some nonsense.

The better of the two shopping centres in Northampton town centre. But that’s not saying much. The Grosvenor Centre is a little bit grotty and in need of a referb. Especially if you enter from the high street and fight your way through all the smokers and their trash to the greasy glass doors.
The shops are your normal choice of faceless chains selling the same old stuff you can get from any town center.
I would love to one day walk into a shopping center in Northampton and find a store I have never seen anywhere else.
Our town centers lack diversity, originality, where has the independent trader gone?
Just as newly built housing estates have to cater for affordable housing, newly built shopping centers should be made to leave room for the independents. Lets get some choice and originality back on the streets.

great place to shop and eat
but you may not know but sposed to be goasts
of munks under shopping center

i offen shop there it has some leading chain stores like boots, sainsburys, game etc there is a large car park for easy access

i find it great-​theres plenty of different shops and i can always find what i need, plenty of places to eat too, easily accesible, have different events on too

Big Indoor Shopping Centre located just off of the market square in the middle of Northampton.
It has a wide range of shops inside & also opens up on to the other main shopping street in the town centre.
Various eateries as well as shopping, and easily accessed by both the huge carpark above, and the bus station next to it!