Trinity Leeds: Shops, Parking, Directions and Opening Times

Landsec’s glass-roofed centre in the middle of Leeds, opened on 21 March 2013 after a four-year hole in the ground, wrapped around a Grade I listed church and containing the best street-food hall in any British shopping centre. One warning: the operator publishes no opening hours at all — it says so in writing — and the car park has a 1.98m height limit, which rules out vans and most roof boxes. Here is what is published, what is not, and who said each of it.

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

Trinity Leeds occupies the block between Briggate, Boar Lane and Albion Street in the middle of Leeds, at 27 Albion Street, LS1 5AT. Its phone number is 0113 394 2415 and its website, trinityleeds.com, is live and verified. It is owned by Landsec, which describes its holding as 100% on its own property page, and it opened on 21 March 2013.

The first oddity is the opening hours, and it is a genuine first for us. Trinity Leeds does not publish any. This is not a JavaScript problem or a page we could not find: the operator’s own opening-hours page loads perfectly and says only that the centre is open seven days a week and that you should check individual shop, restaurant and venue pages. That is an explicit refusal to publish, and it means the times in the table below come from Visit Leeds — a third party, uncorroborated, and labelled as such.

The second thing worth knowing before you drive is the height limit: 1.98m. That is low. It comes from APCOA, which runs the car park; the operator publishes no height restriction at all. If you are in anything taller than an ordinary hatchback with a bike on the back, park elsewhere.

The best thing in the building is Trinity Kitchen, a food hall where six of the pitches are street-food vans that rotate on eight-week stints. Nearly 300 independent traders have passed through it in a decade, and it is about to be rebuilt bigger — Leeds City Council approved an expansion in January 2026, with Manchester’s Freight Island brought in to run it.

What follows draws on Landsec’s own property page and the operator’s site, an AccessAble access guide, APCOA’s car park listing, Zapmap and Pod Point, Historic England, Place Yorkshire, BDaily, the Yorkshire Evening Post and Premier Construction News. Where two sources disagree — and on this centre they disagree about the floor area, the shop count and even the number of parking spaces — we print both and say who published each.

a contemporary take on a traditional Leeds shopping arcade

The essentials

Opening times

The operator publishes no opening hours at all, and says so explicitly. Its page at /en/plan-my-visit/opening-hours loads perfectly well and contains one piece of information: that the centre is open seven days a week, and that you should check individual shop, restaurant and venue pages. A second page, /referenced/spotlights/opening-hours, has no hours on it either. This is not a page we failed to reach or a widget we could not read — it is a decision not to publish.

So the times above are Visit Leeds’, not the centre’s. Monday to Saturday 9am to 8pm and Sunday 11am to 5pm, from the city’s tourism site, uncorroborated by the operator or by anyone else. We are printing them because they are better than nothing and because they match the shape of a city-centre mall’s trading day — but they carry a third party’s authority, not the landlord’s.

Nothing at all exists for bank holidays, Christmas or New Year. No source publishes them for this centre. If you are planning a trip around a bank holiday, ring 0113 394 2415 or check the individual store you are going for.

The Sunday rule is worth knowing. English Sunday trading law limits shops over 280 sq m to six hours, which is why an 11am to 5pm Sunday is the standard pattern. Smaller units may open longer; the restaurants and Trinity Kitchen certainly do, and their hours live on their own pages.

Checked on the operator’s own pages, Visit Leeds and APCOA on 4 September 2026.

Getting there

By road

Neither the operator nor Leeds City Council publishes a motorway junction for this centre, and neither publishes an A-road either. That is unusual even by the standards of this series, and it means the honest instruction is a postcode: LS1 4AG for the car park, LS1 5AT for the centre itself. This is a city-centre destination inside a network of one-way streets and bus gates, and the train is easier.

Parking

The car park is paid, run by APCOA, open 24 hours with no time limit — and the two parties who should agree about it do not. The operator’s own page says 630 spaces including 14 accessible; APCOA’s listing for the same car park says 400. They also disagree about the street: APCOA calls it Albion Street, Zapmap and Pod Point call it Swinegate. Both use LS1 4AG.

The height limit at the entrance is 1.98m, from APCOA. The operator publishes none. That is low — it rules out vans, high-roof estates and a good many roof boxes, and it is the single most useful thing on this page for anyone driving.

APCOA’s tariff, checked on 4 September 2026:

• Shortest stay — from £3.30 on a weekday, £3.50 at the weekend
• Eight to 24 hours — a maximum of £36.00
• Day pass — £11
• Weekday season ticket — £170 a month

Do not confuse this car park with APCOA’s "Leeds Swinegate" at 90-98 Swinegate, LS1 5DL. It is a different facility with different prices.

Charging: there are 13 Pod Point devices with 13 connectors, Type 2 at 7kW. Neither Zapmap nor Pod Point publishes a price per kWh, so you will find that out at the post.

By train — this is the reason to leave the car at home

Leeds station is about 0.1 miles away, roughly a three-minute walk. That figure comes from AccessAble, and it is worth saying that neither the operator nor Visit Leeds publishes a walking time — for a centre this close to one of the busiest stations outside London, that is a strange omission. Leeds is the obvious way in from anywhere in Yorkshire.

By bus

There are stops named "Leeds Trinity" N, O, Q and R — the names come from bustimes rather than from any operator or council page — but we could not verify a single route number, and we are not going to print one we have not checked. Leeds city centre is dense with services; the stops are outside the doors; the numbers are simply not published in any source we could reach.

Accessibility

The detail here comes from AccessAble’s guide to the Customer Service Lounge rather than from the operator, which publishes very little. There is a step-free entrance and reception, a portable hearing loop at main reception, a designated quiet room for people with dementia, autism or a learning disability, and mobility aid loans through the Customer Service Lounge.

Everything else is unpublished. We could not confirm toilets, baby change, a Changing Places facility, cash machines, lockers, click-and-collect, a prayer room, a dogs policy, Wi-Fi or any quiet or autism-friendly shopping hours. For a centre that clearly has a staffed customer service lounge and a quiet room, that is an information failure rather than a provision failure — but phone ahead if one of those decides your trip.

The shops

The store count is disputed three ways — 120 at opening, "over 60" in the operator’s own description of its shops page, and "over 120" present-tense from Visit Leeds — and the directory itself is JavaScript-rendered and returned zero results when we tried it. So the names below come from dated letting and opening reports rather than from a list.

What has arrived, with dates

• Five Guys — end of April 2024
• Zara — a 46,000 sq ft flagship on 8 August 2024, in the former Topshop unit fronting Briggate. This is the big one.
• Nike Rise — 2024, in the former Victoria’s Secret unit; no date published
• Jack & Jones, Knoops and Honi Poke — 2024
• Snappy Snaps and The Watch Lab — late October 2025
• Hollister — reopened, redesigned, on 27 November 2025
• The Savvy Baker — 7 December 2025
• Pop Specs — 18 December 2025
• The Study, a free co-working space — reopened January 2026
• Lane7 — 23,000 sq ft in May 2026, in the former Wilko unit
• Footasylum — 12,000 sq ft on 20 June 2026, on the lower ground floor next to Schuh

That is an unusually well-documented run of openings, and it says something about the centre’s trajectory that the two biggest recent lettings — Lane7 and Zara — went into units left by Wilko and Topshop.

What has gone

One closure has a date: Victoria’s Secret and VS Pink shut permanently on Saturday 14 January 2023, reported by the Yorkshire Evening Post on 11 January 2023, with customers pointed towards Meadowhall. The Topshop and Wilko units are described as "former" in later coverage, but no Trinity-specific closure date exists for either — both chains collapsed nationally, and nobody published the local dates.

Beyond that, we found nothing at all in two to three years of searching. That is a sourced absence rather than a claim that nothing has closed.

Trinity Kitchen, and why it is worth a special trip

Trinity Kitchen is a food hall with a twist: six of its pitches are street-food vans and traders that rotate on eight-week stints. Almost 300 independent traders have passed through it in a decade, and it draws around 800,000 guests a year — a figure that is Trinity Kitchen’s alone and should never be quoted as the centre’s footfall.

It is being rebuilt, and the reporting disagrees about how big. The August 2024 coverage in Place Yorkshire and on Yorkshire.com described a £15m, 72,000 sq ft expansion including a 6,000 sq ft roof terrace over City Square, with a spring 2025 start subject to approval. BDaily reported on 29 January 2026 that Leeds City Council had approved it, that Manchester’s Freight Island would be the operator, that construction would begin in late spring 2026 with Trinity Kitchen trading throughout — and gave the size as 63,000 sq ft. Both figures are printed because nobody reconciles them. We could not establish whether building work has actually started.

Useful to know

Come by train

Leeds station is about 0.1 miles away — roughly three minutes on foot, per AccessAble. Given a 1.98m height limit, a disputed number of parking spaces and a maximum stay charge of £36, that is not a close call.

If you do drive, measure your car first

1.98m is the lowest height limit we have recorded at a major city-centre centre in this series. It excludes vans, most high-roof vehicles and a lot of roof boxes and bike racks. There is no time limit and the car park is open around the clock, so the constraint is the ceiling rather than the clock.

Ask for the Customer Service Lounge

It is where the mobility aid loans and the hearing loop are, and it is next to the designated quiet room. AccessAble’s guide to it is more informative than anything the operator publishes, and if you need any of that provision it is worth reading before you travel.

Gift cards still exist here

Trinity Leeds still sells gift cards, through eGifter and Boxxed, with an online balance checker. That is worth flagging because several comparable centres — Braehead, Fosse Park, Rushden Lakes and Glasgow Fort among them — have stopped.

The church is older than everything around it

Holy Trinity Church on Boar Lane is Grade I listed — Historic England entry 1255870, listed on 26 September 1963, built by William Etty between 1721 and 1727, with the tower rebuilt after 1839 by R. D. Chantrell. It gives the centre its name and it survives inside the development. Its listing text is purely architectural and does not mention the shopping centre at all.

Things nobody publishes

No toilets, baby change or Changing Places information; no cash machines, lockers, click-and-collect, prayer room, dogs policy or Wi-Fi; no bus route numbers; no coach parking, taxi rank or cycle parking; no EV price per kWh; and no opening hours from the operator. Absent from the website is not the same as absent from the building — this is a large, modern, staffed centre and most of these things almost certainly exist. They are simply not written down.

How it got here

Trinity Leeds was built by Land Securities — now Landsec — through a vehicle called Trinity Quarter Developments, with Laing O’Rourke as contractor, Chapman Taylor as architect and BDP designing the lighting. The build cost £650m.

What stood here first was demolished entirely: the Leeds Shopping Plaza on the western side, and the Trinity and Burton Arcades on the east. The one survivor is Holy Trinity Church on Boar Lane, Grade I listed (Historic England 1255870, listed 26 September 1963), built by William Etty in 1721-27 with a tower rebuilt after 1839 by R. D. Chantrell. The church gives the centre its name.

The construction history is a recession in miniature. Work started in 2008 and halted in April 2009 when the credit crunch stopped retail development across the country. The original target of Christmas 2010 slid to the end of 2012. Building resumed in August 2010, and the centre finally opened on 21 March 2013, with the west side following in October that year. It won Development of the Year at the Yorkshire Property Industry Awards on 26 September 2013.

The opening numbers were very good and then the publishing stopped. Trinity Leeds took 2.7 million visits in its first month and 22 million in its first year to 21 March 2014, with an extra 2 million said to have been drawn into the city as a whole. No footfall figure of any kind has been published since. Occupancy was reported as exceeding 94% in August 2024.

Ownership has been the quietest part of the story. Landsec describes itself as the 100% owner on its own property page and puts the market value at "£200m+". No sale, part-sale or joint venture has ever been reported. That is a single source describing its own asset, so we print it as Landsec’s statement rather than as an independently verified thirteen-year chain of continuous ownership.

The next chapter is Trinity Kitchen’s. Leeds City Council approved the expansion, reported by BDaily on 29 January 2026, with Freight Island — the Manchester operator — taking it on and construction due from late spring 2026, the existing food hall trading throughout. The size is given as 63,000 sq ft in that reporting and 72,000 sq ft in the 2024 coverage, which also described a 6,000 sq ft roof terrace over City Square. Whether the diggers have arrived, nobody has published.