Cameron Toll - Cameron Toll Shopping Centre

Cameron Toll Shopping Centre

The area is the location of Cameron Toll Shopping Centre, Edinburgh’s first ‘out of town’ shopping centre, which opened in 1984 at a cost of £33 million. Built in the former grounds of Inch House between the A7 and A701 roads, the centre occupies a 26 acre site and has free parking for 1200 cars. It contains around 50 shops including one of the largest Sainsbury's supermarkets in Scotland, fashion retailers New Look, Dorothy Perkins and Peacocks, bookshop Waterstones and video game outlet Game. A number of eating and drinking outlets, with seating, are provided on a mezzanine floor and, in the main mall, are leading UK retailers Costa Coffee and Greggs the bakers.

When the centre originally opened it had just thirty five shop units as well as two major retail outlets – the SavaCentre hypermarket, a joint venture between British Home Stores and Sainsbury's, and a smaller Safeway (UK) supermarket. At the time of building the SavaCentre was Scotland’s largest single level store. In 1984 it had the only Sunday opening bank in the UK (TSB) and it was the first centre of its kind to use a computer controlled lighting system.

550,000 people live within a 20 minute drive of the centre, which is also served well by public transport. Since it opened in 1984 over 100 million people have shopped at Cameron Toll with around 85,000 visiting every week.

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