Shopping City, Runcorn, Fred Roche, James Stirling, and Michael Wilford blue plaque

Runcorn, Halton, England, United Kingdom

Runcorn Shopping City. The designation of Runcorn as a New Town in 1964 brought many changes for the people and landscape of Old Runcorn. Designed by Fred Roche C.B.E., the Chief Architect and Planning Officer of the New Town, Runcorn Shopping City was built on a greenfield site near Halton Village

in 1971, and was intended to be the centrepiece of the New Town. Roche is best known for his later, seminal role in the creation of Milton Keynes. Influenced by the fully enclosed shopping malls that

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