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Assessment of Planning and Retail Issues - Renfrewshire Council

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PROPOSED EXTENSIONS AT 26 ASSESSMENT OF PLANNING AND RETAIL ISSUES<br />

BRAEHEAD RETAIL PARK MAY 2010<br />

<strong>of</strong> the B&Q reoccupied scenario is £12.5 million, <strong>and</strong> it is this turnover which can<br />

be regarded as potentially being diverted from other retail destinations.<br />

Estimated Trade Diversions Due to Sainsbury Relocation<br />

3.41 We then estimated how the additional £12.5 million trade at Braehead would be<br />

diverted from other shopping destinations, <strong>and</strong> this analysis is set out in Table 20.<br />

For each catchment we estimated how the comparison trade might be<br />

redistributed, having regard to the nature <strong>of</strong> the shopping facilities which would<br />

be likely to be in competition with the improved <strong>of</strong>fer at Braehead, <strong>and</strong> the market<br />

share <strong>and</strong> trade draw patterns revealed in Tables 17 <strong>and</strong> 18.<br />

3.42 We assumed that 70% <strong>of</strong> the new trade at Braehead would be drawn from the<br />

Paisley / Renfrew catchment (Table 20, column 8) - which is considerably higher<br />

than the 52% which Braehead drew from the Paisley catchment when the<br />

household survey was undertaken (Table 10, column 9), reflecting the more<br />

localised catchment <strong>of</strong> the Sainsbury’s element <strong>of</strong> the additional turnover, <strong>and</strong> also<br />

reflecting the prediction in Table 18 that Braehead’s trade draw will tend to<br />

become more localised as the increased competition from other centres takes<br />

effect. We estimated that the remaining trade would be drawn from throughout<br />

the existing Braehead catchment, broadly reflecting the 2003 patterns, except for<br />

the draw from the Pollok area where the trade draw would be lower than in 2003<br />

because <strong>of</strong> the Silverburn effect. Some <strong>of</strong> the trade within the new comparison<br />

floorspace would be diverted from other existing stores within the Braehead<br />

centre, reflecting competition between existing <strong>and</strong> new traders.<br />

3.43 The total effect <strong>of</strong> the estimated trade diversions can be seen in the right-h<strong>and</strong><br />

columns <strong>of</strong> Table 20, where the percentage impacts <strong>and</strong> changes in turnover per<br />

square metre are shown. All the percentage reductions are extremely low (less<br />

than 1%), which is not surprising given that the total trade diversion is only £12.5<br />

million. None <strong>of</strong> these trade diversions would cause any longer-term trading<br />

difficulty in the centres concerned.<br />

3.44 The turnover at Braehead is predicted to increase by 3% as a result <strong>of</strong> the<br />

Sainsbury’s relocation, although still £67 million below the level that it could have<br />

expected to achieve from the main catchment area in 2008 in the absence <strong>of</strong> the<br />

various competing new developments coming on stream. Braehead’s market<br />

share is projected to fall to 6.9% <strong>of</strong> the available spending in its catchment,<br />

compared with its 9% market share in 2003.

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