Crystal Peaks Shopping Centre

I used to live in the North of the city and thought Crystal Peaks just had cheap shoe shops, now I've moved to the South I've found out that it is much better than that. It is a small shopping centre, not in the same league as Meadowhall, but as well as having less shops it has less people, less crowding and a much more spacious, relaxed and friendly feel. It has a large Sainsburys which is fantastic, it also has a large Next and Clarks, along with many other food, clothing and entertainment shops, a cafe and Macdonalds, a market, banks and a Post Office (which always has long queues). There is also a First Point council office and a fairly large library ...  Read the complete review

Where to start with Crystal Peaks? Peaks is really a poor man's Meadowhall. Aiming at slightly different markets you won't find your designer shops and department stores in this shopping centre - you're really better off going to Meadowhall for that! Crystal Peaks is more of a useful shopping centre. It has a supermarket (Sainsbury's, although the queues in there can be horrendous), plenty of banks and the recently(ish) refurbished marketplace where you can buy cheap meat, use the post office or get a spare key cut. It doesn't have the glamour of Meadowhall, but it is more useful as I don't think Meadowhall offers any of the above. Other ...  Read the complete review

A local shopping centre in suburbia which for the last 15 years or so has catered to a growing number of houses in the area and ever increasing in circles around it. An astute business move if you ask me. It houses large number of shops for such an area, Sainsburys, Blockbuster, O'Briens, Evans, Superdrug, Boots, McDonalds, Burtons, Dorothy Perkins, Select, JBB Sport, Wilkinsons, The Officers Club, Next, Clarks, H Samuel, Dollond & Aitchison, Iceland, Lloyds Chemist, Peacocks, New Look and a lot of other smaller chains and independents. The style of Crystal Peaks has changed little since it was built and that's fine, it's light and airy and it feels a ...  Read the complete review

There was trend during the early and middle part of the 1970's when people that lived in the large cities of Britain decided that they wanted a more rural existence, and in response to this trend several out of town suburbs began to be built. My home town of Sheffield was no exception to this trend. In fact it followed the text book pattern almost to the letter. In the early seventies the population of the city was just over 550,000. To accommodate the ever increasing demands of people wanting to live on the fringes of the city several small villages on the outskirts began to see new housing estates being built around them. The largest of these developments ...  Read the complete review

The Crystal Peaks shopping centre is a few miles outside of the Sheffield city centre and makes a very pleasant shopping experience. There are about 70 shops in the centre including a large number of national shops, such as Boots, Wilkinsons, Superdrug, Iceland, Sainsburys, Dorothy Perkins, Burtons and many more. There is a good mix of shops in the centre, with the majority all being on one level. There is also a mixed indoor market, selling food, clothes and other non-food products. On a lower level is a food court, which includes a pizza outlet, an Indian restaurant and a McDonalds restaurant. Also on the lower level is the entrance to a ten screen UCI cinema. ...  Read the complete review