Factors affecting quality of retail environment

Factors affecting quality of retail environment

1. Asthetics

   • Coulers
     • Buildings
     • Shop windoes
   • Architecture
     • Historic buildings
     • shop lay outs
     • heritege
     • Band stand
   • Parks
     • clean
     • Big
     • play areas
     • water features for example Shelley fountain Horsham
       • (lake sea or River)
   • Originality
     • shapes
     • Buildings

2. Safety

   • CCTV
     • on most streets
   • Police
     • walking round area
   • Crossings
     • on roads surounding shops
   • railings on high areas
   • street lights
   • fire escapes

3. easy access

   • public trasport
     • trains
     • bus stops
   • lots of parking
     • dissabled
       • elivators
       • Lifts
     • good system for example Horsham have smart park a tiket less parking system
   • many entrances and exits
     • fire escapes
     • disabled/push chair access
       • Ramps
       • lifts
       • Disabiled parking for example the pavilion (horsham)
   • Toilets

4. quality for pedestrians

   • pedestrianised areas for example west street Horsham
   • lots of road crossings
     • safe
   • proximity to carpark
   • good sign posts
     • maps
     • train stations
     • shops

5. Chain stores

   • recognised and trusted names
     • JD
     • TK max

6. range of shops

   • toys
   • clothes
   • food
   • unusual/Unique shops
     • eg gunshop in Brighton
   • Specialist shops
     • Skate shops
     • Music shops
     • Chocolate shops

7. Lesure

   • facilities for children/Teens
     • play areas
       • indoor
         • For examle Horsham have Jungle Fun an indoor play area located close to town with a Coffee shop and a swimming pool right next door
     • green spaces/Parks
     • Zoo
     • Bowling alleys
     • Skate park
       • Skate shops
       • Keeps them out of town
     • Fun fair (small)
   • restaurants
   • swimming pools
   • sport fasilities
   • Cinenemas
   • coffee shops
   • museum

8. Tourism

   • Historic buildings
   • History
   • Arcitecture
   • Art scaupltures
   • Unique
   • Info
   • Town trail
     • For example Horsham hav a series of metal placs showing intresting facts about Historical charicters that lived In horsham .
   • Green space

9. Cleanlyness

   • Litter Bins
   • Cleaners
   • cleans toilets

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