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Retail parks and outlets in the East of England

10 out-of-town destinations: 6 retail parks, 1 shopping centre and 3 designer outlets. Written-up ones are linked; the rest are listed with what we know so far.

Every out-of-town destination in the East of England

NameTypeTownSizeStores
Braintree Village (formerly Freeport Braintree) Designer outlet Braintree ~200,000 sq ft ~80
Clacton Shopping Village Designer outlet Clacton-on-Sea ~92,000 sq ft ~20
Lakeside Shopping Centre Shopping centre West Thurrock / Grays 1,733,000 sq ft ~250
Longwater Retail Park Retail park Costessey, Norwich ~156,600 sq ft ~15
Queensgate Centre Retail park Harlow ~224,000 sq ft ~20
Riverside Retail Park Retail park Norwich ~172,000 sq ft ~18
Roaring Meg Retail Park Retail park Stevenage ~350,000 sq ft ~23
The Galleria Designer outlet Hatfield ~306,000 sq ft ~85
Thurrock Shopping Park Retail park West Thurrock ~286,000 sq ft ~20
Tollgate Centre & Stane Park Retail park Stanway, Colchester ~320,000 combined sq ft ~27 combined

Sizes and store counts are the best published figures we could find, and operators count differently — a dash means no reliable figure was published. Compiled 31 August 2026.