Gateway Retail Park

After 11pm you cannot sit inside to eat.. because the car park will give you a penalty fine of £60 (maximum stay after 11pm is 30 minutes.)
After work one cannot go McDonalds to sit inside and eat your meal in peace.
As soon as you enter the car park after 11pm... 30 minutes starts (its a small car park and it is always packed) by the time you find parking space, make order and food arriving 20 minutes have past so you have 10 minutes or less to eat a meal and leave the car park... otherwise you will get a penalty fine for staying over 30 minutes.

After 11pm... 30 minutes is not enough time to enjoy going to McDonalds... especially if you go with friends after work to sit down and enjoy a meal.

Parking is an issue, there are dine in restaurants open all night but with only 30 mins max stay parking at night. Makes no sense at all how does the management expect for people come and dine in and gone before 30 mins. Would never go there again

Not many shops there now worth going to!
They should being back the Pie & Mash van.. shocking it was able to stay! nowhere decent local now unless you head into Essex..!

Was here for more than one shop
Drive through at weekend are manic. Other shops great . Good parking as well

Always a good place with a good variety of shops. One downside is that you sometimes get scoundrels gathering to compare and rev their modified cars.

Nice food options (Kfc,Mcdonalds, creams, dominos, subway, pizza hut, costa, starbucks) and good shops too including a sainsburys and lidls.

Few new shops added which is exciting. one place you can do almost all of your shopping. One less star for toilet facilities cleanness, most of the time its out of rolls or dirty.

On the whole, tesco and tkmaxx are the two places I go to but there is H&M, JD, Smyths, Poundland, Boots, Superdrugs etc your basic high street stores. Lots of free parking available. Least busiest times are the mornings or during school hours. Usually much more busy during the summer but the unfortunate smell from the sewage works can be really hard to deal with. There are a few places to eat such as Nandos (which is super busy in the weekends and holidays, you can be waiting a while). Other than that, great place to shop alone or with family.