SHOPPING
CENTRE HIERARCHY
There
is an accepted hierarchy of shopping centres accepted by industry and
town planners. Increasingly, town planning controls will determine
whether or not a new shopping centre can be built in a locality
determined largely by the changing rate of population and existing
retail facilities. Therefore, the siting of new shopping centres is
largely determined by town planning's hierarchy of service centres
(which includes retail). A detailed investigation of the hierarchy
approach is not appropriate here but diagrams 1 and2 illustrate the
concept.
DIAGRAM 1
DIAGRAM 2
