Meadows Shopping Centre — Attraction in Chelmsford

Meadows is, sadly, starting to show signs of the "lockdown effect". The centre is looking a bit shabby and very, very empty. Once the smarter choice of Chelmsford City's 2 shopping malls, there are now more empty units than occupied. Sad times indeed. Of course, with things now opening up once again (June 2021) things will hopefully improve. Having said this, I still visit The Works for a bargain first edition novel or some casual holiday reading. It has a good selection of art supplies for beginners and a plethora of toys and games for the kids. Boots the chemists still have a little store in there, Wilko too if you're in need of some supplies for the home. Pop-up businesses come and go, making it rather difficult to write a relevant review, but safe to say you will not be overwhelmed by the choice on offer. Still, we have to support these businesses as much as possible and new shops are still opening, so, with this in mind I'd still encourage everyone to go there... Just in case! Finally, there's a massive Burger King by the High Street entrance if you're feeling...

So small and nuffing to to shout home about it's a shopping centre ...simple Altho if u want to use the disabled toilet even if u have a key it's controlled buy the security staff seems u have to be in a wheel chair or look disabled and when u question on the intacom the person on the other end can not speak or is not clear english.... So u take the lift and just ask what was going on at the window and u get this very rude angry OLD LADY CALLED SUE PATEL I belive my god so angry and everything seems to be a issue she makes it known that she is the manager and it's her show how ever not all bad as I belive a large security lad helped me with my lost child the other day and I wanted to get details to thank him him personaly but after that aggressive and unprofessional encounter I could not be botherd please rember you are the face of the company and very much customer serviced base but I'm guessing that is why hight chelma is...

It’s sad that when a city grows and a new shopping centre is built, another basically dies.

The Meadows is far from dead, but it’s clearly struggling. The shops that have closed have been replaced by pop ups. The centre as a whole is now filled with indie traders, which gives the centre a point of difference.

While I appreciate that Chelmsford council probably do not own the centre, they need to get behind this venture in order to secure its future and that of the traders inside, perhaps some of the back to retail fund should have been focused here to make the centre more enticing again.

The centre is clean and tidy with much innovative activity going on to attract those walking through.

There are however a lot of empty shops, it’s so sad to see this as 10-12 years ago, this was the place to be when it...