Français : Centre-ville Deutsch : Innenstadt
A town or traditional suburban centre, which provides a broad range of facilities and services, and which fulfils a function as a focus for both the community and for public transport. It excludes small parades of shops of purely local significance.
A city or town centre which provides a broad range of facilities and services, which fulfils a function as a focus for both the community and for public transport. Maldon and Burnham-on-Crouch have town centres.
The term town centre is used to cover town and district centres which provide a broad range of facilities and services and which fulfil a function as a focus for both the community and public transport. It excludes retail parks, neighbourhood centres and small parades of shops of purely local significance.
describes city, town and traditional suburban centres which provide a broad range of facilities and services and which fulfil a function as a focus for a community and for public transport.
A centre that provides a broad range of facilities and services and which fulfils a function as a focus for both the community and public transport. It excludes retail parks, neighbourhood centres and small parades of shops of purely local significance. The town centres are listed in Table 9.1. Source: NPPG 8 Town Centres and Retailing
In planning policy terms, this covers all centres that provide a broad range of facilities and services, and fulfil a function as a focus for both the community and public transport. It excludes out-of-centre retail parks, small parades of shops, and individual shops of purely local significance.
Provide the focus for services, employment and social interaction towns. They are where people shop, work, meet, relax and often live. Usually well served by public transport, they range in size and intensity of use from local neighbourhood shopping centres to larger regional centres.
The town centre (center) is usually the commercial or geographical centre of a town. The term is used more often in the UK and Ireland than in North America (where 'Downtown' is more common).
