Crystal Peaks

Crystal Peaks Shopping centre has approximately 600,000 sq ft (56,000 m²) 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.^[3]

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.^[4]

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]}

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.^[5]

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.^[6]