Crystal Peaks

Crystal Peaks Shopping centre has approximately {{convert|600,000|sqft|m2|abbr=on}} of retail space and food outlets with a range chains and a supermarket. The centre has an indoor market of smaller businesses (operated by Sheffield City Council), a medical centre, veterinary surgery, bus station as well as other facilities and services.

The nearby retail park has a number of larger stores, restaurants and warehouses as well as a gym. Nearby is Moss Way police station, Beighton Community Hospital and the Sheffield College Peaks Campus, the latter of which has stopped teaching activities.{{Cite web |title=News {{!}} Peaks Campus FAQs {{!}}{{!}} The Sheffield College |url=https://www.sheffcol.ac.uk/news/peaks-campus-faqs#:~:text=The%20Sheffield%20College%20has%20decided,move%20to%20our%20other%20campuses. |access-date=2024-06-04 |website=www.sheffcol.ac.uk}}

Bee hives have been placed on the shopping centre's roof and bee-friendly flowers planted to help the local bee population, other environmental projects include the installation of swift bird boxes on the building, creating a nature reserve and supporting the village of Beighton in Britain and Yorkshire in Bloom competitions.{{cite web|url=http://www.sheffield.towntalk.co.uk/news/d/63667/bees-create-a-buzz-at-crystal-peaks/|title=Bees create a buzz at Crystal Peaks|access-date=3 December 2016}}

Crystal Peaks also has a dedicated 'charity of the year'. In 2010, the centre raised over £8,000 for Bluebell Wood Children's Hospice. The centre's adopted charity for 2011 was Macmillan Cancer Support.{{citation needed|date=October 2011}}

Crystal Peaks first opened in 1988, being developed in phases. Opening ceremonies attracted large crowds to see Roland Rat and then Eddie "The Eagle" Edwards do the honours. The Olympic ski jumper Edwards performed a stunt on wires from the top of the atrium above the escalators.

Originally, the centre had a central waterfall, stream, clock tower modelled lift and model railway. Sheffield's first ten screen cinema, was also part of the complex until 2003.{{cite news|url=http://www.thestar.co.uk/whats-on/out-and-about/cinema-at-crystal-peaks-to-close-1-347446|title=Cinema at Crystal Peaks to close|work=The Star|access-date=3 December 2016}}

Since opening, the centre has developed substantially. There was a western extension in 1998. The supermarket was relocated to the in 2006 for further extensions to the north and east opened in early 2007.

Interior shots of the shopping centre were used for the 2010 film Four Lions, in which a character is depicted as working as a shopping centre security guard.{{Cite web|title=Finding Four Lions in Sheffield|url=https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=1MAZZZwbqVYBfLOy9AYkkgrKOeg4&hl=en|website=Google My Maps|access-date=2020-05-04}}

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{{Infobox station

| name = Crystal Peaks bus station

| symbol_location = bus

| symbol =

| image = Bus station, Crystal Peaks Shopping Centre - geograph.org.uk - 4378629.jpg

| alt =

| caption =

| other_name =

| address = Peaks Mount, Mosborough

| borough = Sheffield (S20 7JD)

| country = England

| coordinates = {{coord|53.3418|-1.3540|region:GB_type:landmark|display=inline}}

| owned = Crystal Peaks Shopping Centre

| operator = Travel South Yorkshire

| bus_stands = 8

| bus_operators = First South Yorkshire, Stagecoach Yorkshire, TM Travel

| parking = Yes (free, in shopping centre)

| bicycle = Yes

| accessible = Yes

| opened = 1988

}}

Crystal Peaks bus station is located off of Peaks Mount on the western side of the shopping centre, with a direct entrance into the shopping centre. The bus station is located nearby to the Crystal Peaks tram stop, and together provide a public transport hub for south-east Sheffield.

{{As of|2022|07}}, the stand allocation is:

Crystal Peaks tram stop is located in Waterthorpe on the Sheffield Supertram system, and serves Crystal Peaks Shopping Centre and Retail Park, Drakehouse Retail Park, and Waterthorpe. It consists of two platforms.

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{{s-rail|title=South Yorkshire Supertram}}

{{tram line|route=Blue Line |col={{Sheffield Supertram colour|Blue Line}} |previous=Moss Way
towards Malin Bridge|next=Beighton/Drake House Lane
towards Halfway}}

{{s-end}}

{{clear}}

Crystal Peaks is also served by the Beighton/Drake House Lane tram stop, which is located behind the "Green" car park.

{{Reflist}}

• [http://www.crystalpeakscentre.com Official website]
• [http://www.completelyretail.co.uk/scheme/3972 Crystal Peaks Shopping Centre on CompletelyRetail]

{{Shopping centres in Yorkshire and the Humber}}

{{South Yorkshire bus stations}}

{{Supertram}}

Category:Shopping centres in South Yorkshire

Category:Buildings and structures in Sheffield

Category:Shopping malls established in 1988

Category:1988 establishments in England