Services include a Shell Petrol Station, Waitrose, Starbucks Coffee, WHSmith, and KFC.

Planning permission for the site was granted by Bromsgrove District Council in October 1998,[1] work started two months later in December 1998, costing £40 million.

magazine praised Hopwood Park for having a good variety of food, a smart cafe and staff who are helpful.

Designed by Robert Bray Associates in conjunction with Baxter Glayster Consulting Ltd., the SuDS system comprises a chain of basins, swales, filter strips, and ponds.

The system collects surface water from roofs and parking areas and is released at a controlled rate into the local watercourse where it is naturally treated and filtered via the vegetation through the various catchment ponds.