Crown Point Shopping Park, Leeds: Shops, Parking, Directions and Opening Times

A 27-unit retail park on the south side of Leeds city centre, a fourteen-minute walk from Leeds Station, with three hours of free parking policed by ANPR and a car park the operator openly describes as “a separate entity” run by someone else. Before you go: the public toilets have been closed since 1 January 2025 and no reopening date has ever been given. Here is what the operator publishes, where its own four pages disagree with each other, and the one basic fact — when the place opened — that nobody publishes at all.

Last checked 9 September 2026 · Opening times and store lists change — check with the centre before travelling.

Crown Point Shopping Park sits on Junction Street in Hunslet, on the south side of Leeds city centre, wrapped by Great Wilson Street and Kidacre Street and hemmed in by the old industrial edge of south Leeds. It is a proper out-of-town-format retail park that happens not to be out of town at all: the operator's own page puts Leeds Station a fourteen-minute walk, 0.7 miles away. Marks and Spencer, Next, TK Maxx, Currys and Home Bargains are the names most people come for.

Start with the good news about the website, because it is genuinely rare. crownpoint-shopping.co.uk is the right address, it resolves, and it is properly server-rendered. Thirteen of its pages — the directory, opening times, find us, parking, facilities, contact, click and collect, what's on and individual store pages — all load and can be read. That means most of what follows is the operator speaking rather than a third party guessing.

The bad news is that the operator does not agree with itself. Four different pages on that website carry opening hours and they do not match. One of them prints the Sunday times as “11:00pm – 5:00pm” — eleven at night to five in the afternoon. TK Maxx's own page on the same site says it trades until 8pm on a Saturday while the park page says the park shuts at 7pm. We have printed every version with the page it came from and picked none.

The owner is not one company, which is why so many lists say “unknown”. Crown Point is a joint venture between The Crown Estate and Aviva Investors. The Crown Estate bought a 50% share from Morley — Aviva's asset-management arm at the time — for £67.7 million in June 2008, and The Crown Estate's own website still lists “joint ventures at Westgate in Oxford and Crown Point in Leeds” today. Both letting agents, confusingly, name only Aviva Investors as landlord.

What follows draws on the operator's own pages, Aviva's 2008 press release, the two letting agents' scheme particulars, The Crown Estate's own portfolio page, Leeds City Council planning material, South Leeds Life, the Yorkshire Evening Post and a Historic England list entry. Where two sources give different numbers we print both and say who published each. Where nobody publishes something — and here that includes the year the place opened — we say so plainly.

This transaction allows us to capitalise on three years of active asset management. It has been a very successful investment in which we will continue to hold a substantial stake.

The essentials

Opening times

Checked on the operator's own pages on 9 September 2026. Three operator surfaces agree on the weekday and Saturday times — the dedicated opening-times page, the click-and-collect page and the individual store pages: Monday to Friday 9am to 8pm, Saturday 9am to 7pm. Yorkshire's tourism board site and ukmalls agree on those two lines too. That much is settled.

Sunday is printed three ways and we are not resolving it

The operator's dedicated opening-hours page states, word for word, “Sunday: 11:00pm – 5:00pm”. That is eleven at night until five in the afternoon, which is not a thing any retail park does. It is plainly a typo for 11am — and we know that because the same operator's click-and-collect page says “Sunday: 11:00am – 17:00pm”, and because the M&S Foodhall and TK Maxx store pages on the same website, and Asda's own page for the George unit here, all give 11am to 5pm. So 11am is right. But the operator's headline hours page says something else entirely, and that is worth knowing before you rely on it. Meanwhile ukmalls gives Sunday as 10.30am — almost certainly a fossil of JD's reported hours when it opened here in July 2022. If half an hour matters, ring 0113 244 4530.

Saturday closing is disputed on the operator's own website

The park's opening-times page says Saturday 9am to 7pm. The TK Maxx store page on the very same website says Monday to Saturday 9am to 8pm. Both are the operator publishing, and we have printed both.

The tenant rows are the useful bit

Home Bargains opens at 8am and trades until 9pm on weekdays — an hour either side of the park's own times — and its Sunday is a different six-hour window, 10am to 4pm, because it is a large store bound by Sunday trading rules. Starbucks and Costa open at 7am, M&S Foodhall at 8.30am, and The Gym Group never closes. One caveat: the operator's category pages label the shorter rows “Open today”, so those are that day's hours rather than a weekly table. Where we could open a full store page — M&S Foodhall, TK Maxx, Home Bargains — we have used the weekly figures instead.

Christmas is a blank. No Christmas, Boxing Day, New Year or bank holiday hours are published by this park at all, in any form, on any page. The single holiday statement anywhere on the site is “Easter Sunday: CLOSED”. Every December you will have to phone.

Getting there

By road

Use LS10 1ET. The operator publishes no motorway junction number, and we are not going to invent one. Its entire road guidance, in its own words, is that the park is “located in the south side of Leeds city centre, off the A61”. The A61 is what you follow. If your satnav takes you to LS10 1EW instead, you have not gone wrong — that is the Great Wilson Street side of the same park, and the address Hobbycraft publishes. Kidacre Street is the exit from the long-stay bays behind Currys.

Parking — read this bit before you leave the car

Parking is free for three hours, monitored by ANPR all day, every day, and enforced by UKPC. The operator is unusually blunt about the arrangement, and the sentence is worth quoting in full: “The car park itself is a separate entity to Crown Point Shopping Park, and is therefore managed by UKPC.” In other words, if you get a ticket, the park is not the body you appeal to. Appeals start on UKPC's website; there is an information line on 0333 2201 070, option 4, staffed Monday to Friday 10am to noon and 2pm to 4pm. The operator also warns that parking is for Crown Point customers only — park here and walk into town and you may be ticketed.

If you need longer than three hours, there are 15 long-stay spaces bookable through JustPark at £8 a day or £100 a month: the yellow-lined bays behind Currys, reached through the side entrance by Home Bargains, exiting near Costa on Kidacre Street. Those bays run 7.30am to 8pm Monday to Saturday and 8.30am to 8pm on Sunday. Book by entering LS10 1ET on JustPark.

Completely Retail puts the car park at 928 spaces plus dedicated staff parking; the operator publishes no figure of its own. There are “plenty of disabled bays” — the operator's phrase, with no count — and a blue badge must be displayed. No height restriction is published by anyone, and no parent-and-child bays are mentioned.

Electric vehicles

There are six fast chargers between Currys and Home Bargains, able to charge eleven vehicles at once. They are socketed, so bring your own cable. Charging is £0.30 per kWh by contactless card, RFID card or the ChargePoint app. The three-hour ANPR limit still applies while you are charging — the operator says so explicitly, and it is the sort of thing that catches people out.

By train and bus

The train is the strongest thing about this site. The operator states that “From Leeds Train Station, Crown Point Shopping Park is just a 14-minute walk, 0.7 miles” — unusually precise for an operator. Both the Yorkshire Evening Post and South Leeds Life call it a 15-minute walk. One minute apart, and we are not going to pretend to resolve it. Leeds is the busiest station in the North of England, so this is a retail park you can genuinely reach by train from most of Yorkshire.

For buses the operator names eleven services, verbatim: “12, 13, 13A, 28, 47, 48, 61, 61A, 70, 74 & 86A all cover the Crown Point Shopping Park.” It gives no operator names, no stop names and no frequencies, and neither does anyone else. Those are south and east Leeds corridors, so the park is well covered from Hunslet, Belle Isle, Middleton and the Halton direction.

Accessibility

The operator's statement is short: “Crown Point Shopping Park is accessible for disabled customers.” Special assistance is arranged through the Management Suite on 0113 244 4530. It is a single-level open-air park with surface parking, so there are no lifts or stairs between units. What is not published: no Changing Places toilet, no Shopmobility, no wheelchair or scooter hire, no count of accessible bays — and nothing at all about coach parking, a taxi rank or cycle stands. The central toilets are closed, which is an accessibility issue in its own right; see below.

The shops

The operator's directory listed 29 brands when we counted it on 9 September 2026. Its own homepage says “over 30 large retailers”. Both letting agents describe 27 units. All three can be true at once, because a unit is not a brand.

The anchors

Completely Retail publishes the unit sizes, which is the clearest picture anyone gives of what is big here: TK Maxx 22,659 sq ft (Unit 1A), Argos 19,132 sq ft (Unit 1), M&S Foodhall 13,815 sq ft (Unit 2B), Boots 7,962 sq ft (Unit 3A) and Sports Direct 7,033 sq ft (Unit 2Ai). Add Next, Currys, Home Bargains, Smyths Toys, Pets at Home, Nike Factory Store, JD, Hobbycraft and Wren Kitchens and you have the shape of the place: bulky goods, value fashion, a food hall and a big toy shop.

Homesense trades here and is not on the operator's directory. TK Maxx's own store finder carries a separate Homesense Leeds (Crown Point) page at Unit 1, alongside the TK Maxx page for the same unit. Both are JavaScript-rendered and would not give up their hours to us, but they exist and are titled for this park. So the honest brand count is 30, not 29.

What arrived, with dates

• The Food Warehouse (Iceland) — opened 7 June 2022, Unit 14, 10,039 sq ft, 25 jobs. It trades on the current directory as “Iceland Food Warehouse”.
• JD — opened Saturday 16 July 2022, 6,400 sq ft, “over 40 new jobs”, JD's sixth store in Leeds.
• American Golf — summer 2022, dated only by Completely Retail, which pairs it with JD. No separate coverage exists.

That is the whole of the dated record. Nothing since summer 2022 has an arrival date attached to it anywhere.

McDonald's is coming, but it is not here yet

Leeds City Council granted consent in June 2025 for a vacant 425 sq m unit — the one between the food hall and Sports Direct — to become a McDonald's restaurant seating about 90, with a new shopfront, parking spaces and a zebra crossing. South Leeds Life reported it on 19 June 2025 and the Yorkshire Evening Post on 20 June 2025. The planning consultancy Lichfields wrote that the works would “provide an attractive, modern shop front to the unit and facilitate its operation as a restaurant, bringing a vacant unit back into active use”. Neither outlet published a planning reference number, no opening date has been announced, and McDonald's is not on the operator's directory as at 9 September 2026. Consented is not open. One other unit, 2Aii at 4,577 sq ft, is being marketed to let — the only vacancy either agent advertises.

What has gone — and why none of it can be dated

Nobody publishes closures at Crown Point, so we went at it sideways, and the best evidence turns out to be the operator's own out-of-date page. The click-and-collect page still displays logos for New Look, Carphone Warehouse and Asda Living. None of the three is on the live directory. Carphone Warehouse's standalone UK shops closed in 2020; Asda Living has been reformatted into the George store that trades here now; New Look has simply gone. The operator has never taken the logos down, which is how we can say those three have left and nothing more precise than “before now”.

A blunter instrument: the Leeds Online directory page for the park has accumulated more than forty names over the years and never removed any of them — Clarks, Marks & Spencer Outlet, Allied Carpets, Carpetright, Oak Furniture Land, Sharps Bedrooms, Möben Kitchens, Comet, Staples, Poundstretcher, Poundworld, Mothercare, First Choice, Thomas Cook, Frankie & Benny's and an Asda Living Café. Not one carries a date. Several collapsed nationally at known dates — Möben 2011, Comet 2012, Staples UK 2016, Poundworld 2018, Thomas Cook 2019, Mothercare 2020 — which brackets the list loosely and proves nothing about this park. Treat it as “traded here at some point”, not as a closure record.

The outlet strand nobody explains

Next brands its store here “Leeds – Crown Point Outlet” on its own store finder. The operator's own M&S Foodhall page gives the store website as outlet.marksandspencer.com. The old Leeds Online directory lists a “Marks & Spencer Outlet”. And yet the operator's directory labels nothing as an outlet or clearance store at all. Something clearance-format has traded here and may still be trading here, and we cannot tell you what, because nobody publishes it.

Useful to know

The toilets are shut, and have been for over a year and a half

This is the most useful thing on this page and it appears on no third-party listing anywhere. The operator's facilities page says, word for word: “Please note as of 1.1.25 the toilets at Crown Point will be closed until further notice.” Shoppers are directed to use the retailers' facilities instead. No reopening date has ever been given, and the notice has now stood since 1 January 2025.

If you are shopping with small children, with anyone who needs frequent access, or for longer than a quick dash, plan around it: the big anchors — M&S Foodhall, Home Bargains, Currys — are your realistic options. Baby changing is still available, in the Centre Management Suite between Subway and Hobbycraft.

Free WiFi, and a quiet hour that is Asda's

The operator's instruction is as simple as it sounds: “Enjoy free WiFi whilst you shop with us. Simply look for CrownPoint under your WiFi settings.” No registration process is described. There is no park-wide quiet hour, but there is one inside the George store: Asda's own page for this branch states “a quieter hour 2.00pm - 3.00pm every Monday to Thursday” with reduced noise. That is a single shop rather than the whole park.

The Management Suite, and the three-hour clock

General enquiries, lost property and special assistance are handled from the Centre Management Suite, “at the top right hand corner of the shopping park, between Subway and Hobbycraft”, on 0113 244 4530. Three free hours is reasonable, but it is ANPR-enforced by a third party, it applies while you are charging an electric car, and the park has no say in appeals. The JustPark long-stay option exists precisely because of that, and £8 for a day is cheaper than a city-centre car park a fifteen-minute walk away.

Where it sits among the other Leeds options

Crown Point is the closest big-format park to the city centre, which is its whole point. If you want a covered mall instead, Trinity Leeds is in the middle of town and White Rose is out at the ring road with a far bigger fashion offer. If you want the pure out-of-town experience with more units and no city-centre traffic, Junction 27 Retail Park and Birstall Shopping Park sit next to each other at the M62 end of the Leeds–Dewsbury corridor. Crown Point's advantage over all four is that it is the only one you can reach on foot from Leeds Station.

Things nobody publishes

We could find no confirmation of a Changing Places toilet, a Shopmobility scheme, wheelchair or scooter hire, cash machines, gift cards, lockers, a prayer or quiet room, a dogs policy, coach parking, a taxi rank or cycle stands, nor any published count of accessible bays. Absent from the website is not the same as absent from the park — a retail park this size almost certainly has cash machines. It only means the operator does not say so on any page we could read. Phone 0113 244 4530 first if one of them decides your trip.

And do not ring the letting agent about a parking ticket. Park Place Retail has felt the need to put this on its own property listing: “Park Place Retail are NOT responsible for management issues (e.g. car park fines, CCTV, trailers, etc).” Which tells you something about how often people try.

How it got here

The one thing nobody publishes

We could not establish when Crown Point Shopping Park opened, and that is a finding rather than a gap in our effort. The operator has no about page and no history page. Neither letting agent gives a date. Leeds City Council's planning reports mention the park only as neighbouring land use. The two local-history discussion threads that might have answered it — one of them titled, tantalisingly, “Crown Point is 20!!!” — both returned server errors on every attempt. We are not going to convert a forum thread title into an opening year, so this page carries none.

What is datable

The ownership record starts to bite in the mid-2000s. Aviva's press release of 24 June 2008 quotes Morley's fund manager describing “three years of active asset management”, which puts the asset in Morley's hands around 2005 — an inference from the release rather than a stated acquisition date, and we flag it as such.

On that date, Morley — Aviva's UK asset-management business, now Aviva Investors — sold a 50% share to The Crown Estate for £67.7 million. The release describes the asset as “a 290,000 sq ft open consented shopping park on the edge of Leeds City Centre” together with “an adjoining industrial investment with development potential” — a reminder of where the park sits, on the fringe of Hunslet's old industrial belt next to the Leeds City Office Park and a former railway cutting. The deal completed, as the release pointedly noted, “despite current market conditions” — three months before Lehman Brothers.

Who owns it now

The joint venture is still live. The Crown Estate's own Regional property page names its assets and includes, verbatim, “joint ventures at Westgate in Oxford and Crown Point in Leeds”, alongside Fosse Park and Rushden Lakes. No sale of either half has ever been reported anywhere we could find.

There is one oddity worth recording. Both letting agents — Park Place Retail and Curson Sowerby Partners — name Aviva Investors as the landlord, and so does the copy of the scheme sitting inside The Crown Estate's own portfolio on Completely Retail. So the leasing side is run in Aviva Investors' name even though the asset is half The Crown Estate's. The current percentage split is not published by anyone, and we are not printing one. Fifty-fifty was the position stated in June 2008 and that is as far as the record goes. A search of Companies House for “Crown Point Shopping Park” returns no property vehicle at all — which is exactly what you would expect from a fund-and-JV holding structure, and is why so many published lists give the owner of this park as “unknown”.

Where the name comes from

Crown Point is older than the shops by a century and a half. Crown Point Bridge over the River Aire is listed Grade II — Historic England list entry 1375272, first listed on 8 May 1974 — and its entry is the only authoritative dated document about “Crown Point” that exists. It reads, in part: “Road bridge. 1842, widened 1994-5 on east side. By George Leather. Stone abutments and road walls, cast-iron arch and parapet with lattice steel work in spandrels.” The style is Gothic Revival, with a “wide single-span segmental arch, ornate herringbone pattern railed parapet”.

The entry records that the bridge was built to connect Hunslet with the city's east end, that it is named after Crown Point Wharf, and that “The bridge was cast at the Park Ironworks, Sheffield, and cost £8,750”. The bridge is not the shopping park — it is a few hundred yards away across the river — but it is where the name came from, and it is the reason a retail park in Hunslet is called Crown Point at all.