page_title: History of Seacroft
section_title: Seacroft Green Shopping Centre
hierarchical_section_title: History of Seacroft / 1990s and 2000s / Seacroft Green Shopping Centre
caption_attribution_description: English: Seacroft Shopping Centre, Leeds LS14.
context_page_description: Seacroft pre-dates the Domesday book, with evidence of a settlement in the area from the Neolithic Age. Seacroft remained largely unchanged for centuries as a small Yorkshire village, until in the 1950s the area was developed into Leeds' largest council estate. In the 1960s and 1970s the building of Whinmoor and Swarcliffe enclosed Seacroft within other suburbs.
context_section_description: In 1999, work began clearing the site and in the 2000s (decade) the new 'Seacroft Green Shopping Centre' opened.  The Tesco was cited at the time to be the largest supermarket in Europe, a claim which may not have been true.  It was however still an enormous supermarket spread over two levels (the second being a large mezzanine level). The car park was also enlarged and other shop units were built along the side of the supermarket, making the centre a crescent shape.  The huge supermarket as well as the other shops promised to create hundreds more jobs then would be lost through the loss of trade in the Civic Centre, this was no doubt one factor which made the redevelopment favourable with many Seacroft residents.
  The Seacroft Green Shopping Centre is also the main transport interchange in Seacroft, with the main bus station for Seacroft and the surrounding areas being centred there.  From here buses run out through the estate as well as to the city centre, Wetherby and Harrogate.  Seacroft bus station has five stands and an average daily footfall of 2,687.  (See Transport)
  The centre was not entirely popular with the local residents with many saying they had lost their town centre to a Tesco supermarket.  To an extent this is true. Although there are shops besides Tesco, there are far fewer than there were; the precinct area has been lost, the pubs in the centre have been lost and there are no offices.  Until the building of the new centre, and since the closure of Grandways, it was said that Seacroft suffered from 'food poverty' as fresh produce could not be bought on the estate.  This was probably not true as there was still a Co-op on South Parkway.
  The rebuilding of the Civic Centre did not however alter the deprivation on the estate.  Throughout the 2000s (decade) the condition of many of the houses on the estate deteriorated, particularly amongst the prefabricated housing to the South West of the estate.  Many houses were vacated and demolished to make way for new modern housing.  The estate's high rise flats are seen as a refuge, and as such they have largely been allocated to older residents.  Some (including Queensview) have become sheltered housing.
caption: Tesco at The Seacroft Green Shopping Centre
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