Junction 27 Retail Park, Birstall: Shops, Parking, Directions and Opening Times

A furniture-heavy retail park on Holden Ing Way at Birstall, hard by the M62, with free parking, sixteen electric-vehicle bays and a run of sofa and bed showrooms that most people drive to rather than stumble across. It is not Birstall Shopping Park. They sit near one another, they share a junction and they are constantly confused, but they have different owners, different car parks and different postcodes. Here is what the landlord publishes, where the published figures disagree with each other, and the surprisingly long list of ordinary things nobody states at all.

Last checked 5 September 2026 · Opening times and store lists change — check with the centre before travelling.

Junction 27 Retail Park stands on Holden Ing Way, off Gelderd Road at Birstall near Batley, West Yorkshire, at postcode WF17 9AD. It is thirteen units of large-format retail — mostly furniture, beds and sofas, with three restaurants and a Currys — arranged around a free surface car park, and it takes its name from the motorway junction it sits beside.

Start with what it is not. This is not Birstall Shopping Park, which is a separate scheme with a separate owner, a separate car park and a separate postcode, and it is not the IKEA at Batley either, although all three are part of the same sprawl of out-of-town retail around the same motorway junction. If a review, a directory listing or a set of opening hours does not name the actual street, treat it with suspicion — the names are used interchangeably online and they should not be.

The park's own website, junction27.co.uk, is genuinely the landlord's: it carries the right address, the right tenants and live seasonal content, and we re-checked it on 3 September 2026. It is also unusually thin. It publishes a set of opening hours, a directions line, a click-and-collect page and a corporate-responsibility page, and then it stops. There is no accessibility page at all — we checked the footer directly, which offers only Terms, Privacy and Cookies — and no page covering toilets, baby changing, Wi-Fi, cash machines, gift cards or lost property.

The owner changed in 2025 and the paperwork disagrees with itself about when. The park was bought by Hines Global Income Trust from Tritax Big Box REIT. Three different dates for that sale appear in the buyer's own material, and we print all three below rather than pick one. The reported price is around £55m, but Hines itself called it undisclosed.

What follows is drawn from the landlord's own pages, the buyer's property page and press release, the same release as filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission, the Yorkshire and national trade press, one tenant's own store page and a local newspaper report. Where two sources give different numbers we have printed both and named who published each. Where nobody publishes something — and here that includes whether there is a toilet — we say so plainly rather than guess.

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The essentials

Opening times

Checked on the operator's own site and the retailers' own sites on 3 September 2026. The park does publish a central set of hours — Monday to Saturday 10am to 8pm, Sunday 11am to 5pm — and we have printed it at the top of the table because it is the landlord speaking. But it matches not one single anchor.

That is a fact about how retail parks work rather than a criticism: each unit has its own front door onto the car park, so each retailer sets its own hours. Currys opens an hour earlier on weekdays; Furniture Village opens at 10am but does not start viewings until half past; TGI Fridays runs to 10.30pm or later every night, four and a half hours past the park's stated closing time. Treat the central hours as the shape of the day, not as a promise about any particular shop, and check the individual retailer before driving over for one of them.

Three tenants could not be checked at all. ScS's own website would not load for us; Barker & Stonehouse and Pizza Express both render their opening hours in JavaScript, which returned nothing. We have left those rows blank rather than copy times from a third-party listing site.

No bank holiday hours are published by anyone — not the park, not the retailers we could read. There is no festive schedule on the site either. Ring 0845 257 4023 before travelling on a public holiday.

Getting there

By road

The junction number is published by the landlord, so we are printing it: M62 junction 27. The operator's Getting Here page says, verbatim, that "Junction 27 is situated just off Junction 27 on the M62 in Batley, West Yorkshire". The sentence really does read like that — the park is named after the junction, so the name and the direction collide in the middle of it — but it is unambiguous about the number, and it is the landlord saying it rather than a directory guessing.

That one line is the whole of the landlord's road guidance: no A-road, no approach, no signage. The postal address puts the park on Holden Ing Way off Gelderd Road, but the operator does not turn that into a direction and nor will we. Use WF17 9AD in the satnav.

One tenant fills the gap a little. Barker & Stonehouse's own page for its store here says the park is "15 minutes from Leeds city centre" and "20 minutes from Bradford", and is "accessible via the M62 at junction 27". Those are a retailer's marketing estimates rather than measured drive times, and they will not survive a Saturday afternoon on the M62, but they are the only journey times anyone publishes.

Parking

Parking is free and, as far as anything published goes, unlimited in time — the operator states no maximum stay. The space count is given two ways: the operator says "400+", and Place Yorkshire reported 550 in its coverage of the 2025 sale. Neither figure has a date attached to the count itself.

Nobody names a parking enforcement company or an ANPR contractor, and no height restriction is published. It is a surface car park serving furniture showrooms, so vans and roof boxes are normal traffic here, but nothing is stated.

Electric vehicle charging — the one facility that is properly documented

This is the exception to the pattern on this page, and it is a good one. RAW Charging operates 16 bays here, and the tariffs are published:

• 10 ultra-rapid bays, up to 300kW, at 70p per kWh, with an overstay charge of 50p a minute after 45 minutes.
• 6 fast bays, 22kW, at 50p per kWh, with £1 an hour after 10 hours.

Payment is through the ChargePoint app. We re-verified this live on 3 September 2026, unchanged from our previous check.

By rail

No railway station is named by the landlord, and no distance or walking time is published by anyone. That is a genuine gap rather than an oversight on our part — the operator's site does not mention rail at all. We are not going to name a station and invent a walk to it.

By bus, coach, taxi and bike

The same answer, and it is a short one. The landlord publishes no bus routes, no coach parking, no taxi rank and no cycle parking. There is no transport page on the site beyond the single motorway sentence quoted above. If you are not arriving by car, you will be working from Metro's West Yorkshire journey planner rather than from anything the park itself tells you.

Accessibility

There is no accessibility information at all, and a modern surface-level park probably has level access throughout — but probably is not published, so we will not print it as fact. We checked the site footer directly, and it carries only Terms, Privacy and Cookies — there is no accessibility page, no facilities page and no mention of Blue Badge bays, step-free access, accessible toilets, Changing Places or Shopmobility anywhere on junction27.co.uk.

The only accessibility detail we could source came from a tenant: Barker & Stonehouse says its store here has two floors with a lift, and that it is dog-friendly. That is one shop, not the park.

The shops

Twelve trading brands are named on the operator's own directory, in a park described as 13 units: a furniture park with a large electricals shed and three restaurants attached.

The line-up

• Currys — the electricals anchor, and the one retailer here whose hours we could cross-check against its own website.
• Barker & Stonehouse — two floors with a lift, and dog-friendly, per its own store page.
• Furniture Village
• Sofology
• ScS
• Natuzzi Italia
• NCF Living
• Poltronesofa
• Tapi — the carpet and flooring retailer, and the newest arrival we can date.
• TGI Fridays, Pizza Express and Zizzi — the eating-out end of the park.

Click and collect

The operator's click-and-collect page names four participants — Currys, Pizza Express, TGI Fridays and Zizzi — and publishes no collection point, window or instructions.

Carpetright out, Tapi in — the one change anybody dated

The Dewsbury Reporter, on 1 May 2025, placed Tapi "at the retail park off junction 27 of the M62" — this park, not the shopping park next door. Its account is that the Carpetright unit closed "last year", so 2024 with no month, and that Tapi was "set to open later this month", so May 2025 with no day. Retail Gazette, the same day, corroborated a four-store Tapi rollout covering Basildon, Coventry, Crawley and "Leeds Birstall" without naming the park — which is exactly the ambiguity that makes the local paper's version the more useful one.

Natuzzi doubled its space — and nobody reachable will say when

Savills published a news item headlined "Natuzzi doubles space at Junction 27 Retail Park, Leeds", with a separate earlier item covering the original letting. That is a real event, announced by a real agent, and we cannot read either item: every Savills regional mirror we tried returned a 403 — the UK, Japanese, Swedish, Gibraltar and Jersey sites alike — and Insider Media's version of the story is blocked to us by robots.txt.

The result is that we can tell you Natuzzi Italia expanded here and that Savills announced it, and we cannot tell you the date or the floor areas. We would rather say that than round it off with a guess.

What has gone

Beyond Carpetright, the departures are undated. Multiyork and Harveys are both associated with this park and both collapsed nationally, but no source we could reach dates either closure here, and a chain's administration date is not a store's closing date.

The "100% leased" description dates from the 2025 sale, and an undated leasing plan from CSP shows Units A and B available. Which of those is current, we cannot say.

Useful to know

The EV charging is genuinely good, with one catch

Sixteen bays, ten of them ultra-rapid at up to 300kW, is a serious installation for a park this size, and the tariffs are published rather than hidden behind an app. The catch is the 45-minute overstay rule on the ultra-rapid bays, at 50p a minute: ultra-rapid charging is built around a coffee stop, and buying a three-piece suite is not one. If you are here for the afternoon, the 22kW fast bays and their ten-hour window are the ones you want.

Things nobody publishes

This is a longer list than we would like, and every item on it was checked against the operator's own site rather than merely searched for. There is no published information on toilets, baby changing, a park-wide dogs policy, Wi-Fi, cash machines, gift cards, lost property, Blue Badge bays, step-free access or a Changing Places toilet. The site simply has no page that would carry any of it.

That does not mean none of these exist. A retail park with three restaurants on it certainly has toilets somewhere. It means the landlord does not say so, so we cannot. Phone 0845 257 4023, or phone the individual retailer, if one of these decides your trip.

The "We Care" page is not visitor information

The operator's site has a page under that heading and it is worth setting expectations about, because the name suggests customer services and the content is corporate responsibility. It covers a Disasters Emergency Committee Ukraine appeal, a 2021 Green Apple Award for bird boxes and bug hotels on the site, and LED car park lighting described as up to 80% more efficient. Interesting, but it will not tell you where the lavatories are.

Do not confuse it with its neighbours

Birstall Shopping Park is a different scheme with a different owner, and the IKEA at Batley is a third thing again. All three sit around the same motorway junction and all three get called "Birstall" or "Junction 27" online. Opening hours, store lists and parking rules get swapped between them freely on directory sites. If you are checking a detail, check it against the street name: this park is on Holden Ing Way.

How it got here

We cannot tell you when this park opened, who built it or what was here before, because nobody publishes any of it. That is an unusual thing to have to write about a 131,000 sq ft retail park on a motorway junction, and it is not for want of looking: the operator, the current owner, the letting agents, Kirklees Council and the local press are silent on all three points. The most likely explanation is mundane — Tritax Big Box REIT's investor pages for the asset appear to have been removed after it was sold, and those pages are usually where a scheme's vital statistics live.

So the documented history of this park begins in 2025, with a change of ownership.

The 2025 sale, and the three dates

Hines Global Income Trust bought the park from Tritax Big Box REIT. The price is reported as £55m by Place Yorkshire and £54.6m by BE News; a US wire headline carried a 70.8m dollar figure, which is the same transaction converted; and Hines itself described the price as undisclosed. No yield is published anywhere we could reach.

The date is stranger, because the buyer's own material gives it three ways:

• 18 March 2025 — the "Acquisition Date" field on Hines' live property page for the asset.
• 24 April 2025 — the date on Hines' press release, and on the identical release as filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission as an exhibit to an 8-K. That filing makes this the best-attested of the three: a US-listed buyer lodging its own announcement with a regulator is about as close to a primary document as this kind of deal produces.
• 28 April 2025 — Place Yorkshire's date.

These are not necessarily contradictions. Exchange, completion and announcement are three different events and a property page's "acquisition date" may mean any of them. But nobody reconciles them, so we print all three and lean on the SEC-filed one.

Centre 27, across the way — a different scheme, and worth knowing about

Opposite the retail park sits Centre 27, which is not part of it. The architects DKA describe it on their own site as "a tired 1980's pavilion-style business park" of 1.59 hectares, to be replaced by around 7,900 sq m in three two-storey retail warehouse units; they say they have been on the team since 2015 and that outline consent has been obtained.

The local press adds that it is a Sir Robert Ogden Estate project worth around £40m, expected to create about 300 jobs and roughly £1m a year in additional business rates for Kirklees, on land previously used by a pallet business, a car wash and storage, most of which has already been demolished. AEW UK appears on a Kirklees consultation document dated February 2016. None of it can be sequenced against the Hines purchase: both ExaminerLive articles carry no extractable date and no Kirklees planning reference could be found, so we are not implying a connection nobody has published.

Listed buildings

Historic England holds nothing on or adjacent to the site.