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Retail parks and outlets in the South East

18 out-of-town destinations: 7 retail parks, 7 shopping centres and 4 designer outlets. Written-up ones are linked; the rest are listed with what we know so far.

Shopping centre

Bluewater

Greenhithe / Stone, Dartford · ~300 stores

Shopping centre

The Oracle

Reading · ~124 stores

Shopping centre

WestQuay

Southampton · ~133 stores

Every out-of-town destination in the South East

NameTypeTownSizeStores
Ashford Designer Outlet Designer outlet Ashford ~230,000 sq ft ~98
Banbury Gateway Shopping Park Retail park Banbury ~285,000 sq ft ~16
Bicester Village Designer outlet Bicester ~250,000 sq ft ~160
Bluewater Shopping centre Greenhithe / Stone, Dartford 1,900,000 sq ft ~300
Dockside Outlet Centre Designer outlet Chatham ~150,000-166,000 sq ft ~44
Festival Place Shopping centre Basingstoke ~1,200,000 sq ft ~180
Gunwharf Quays Designer outlet Portsmouth ~300,000 sq ft ~90
Hempstead Valley Shopping Centre Shopping centre Gillingham ~449,000 sq ft ~62
Kingston Centre Retail park Milton Keynes ~275,000 sq ft ~40
MK1 Shopping & Leisure Park Retail park Bletchley, Milton Keynes ~266,691 sq ft ~23
Ocean Retail Park Retail park Portsmouth ~175,000 sq ft ~17
Reading Gate Retail Park Retail park Reading ~202,500 sq ft ~11
South Aylesford Retail Park Retail park Aylesford, Maidstone ~167,000 sq ft ~13
The Centre:MK Shopping centre Milton Keynes ~1,200,000 (Retail Gazette 2020; 1.3m sq ft on the 2024 sale) sq ft ~170
The Oracle Shopping centre Reading ~759,000 sq ft ~124
WestQuay Shopping centre Southampton ~1,017,000 (94,500 sq m) sq ft ~133
Westwood Cross Shopping centre Broadstairs 411,000-550,000 sq ft over 40
Whiteley Shopping Centre Retail park Whiteley, Fareham ~320,000 sq ft ~59

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.