Southside Wandsworth

[2] The shopping centre is anchored by a Waitrose supermarket, large TK Maxx and a new 81,880 square feet (7,607 m2) Gravity Active Entertainment.

The upper mall has a food court containing a Five Guys, Ekachai, Smoky Boys and a Nandos, plus a 14-screen Cineworld Cinema and a children's play area.

[3] Redevelopment of the eastern section of the centre fronting Garratt Lane was completed in October 2015, with a £40 million project involving the demolition of office accommodation and the creation of a further 220,000 square feet (20,000 m2) of retail space.

[9] However, it was not universally popular, and its large size led to it being described by a contemporary commentator as "one of London’s great architectural disasters".

[10] Although initially successful (helped by being located at the junction of several major roads including the A3), it steadily drifted downmarket in the decades after its construction aided by the departure of its original anchor tenants such as Sainsbury's who moved outside onto Garratt Lane and Tesco.

This included the complete demolition and reconstruction of the southern end of the structure, to add a new 860-space multistorey car park, a 14-screen Cineworld cinema and a food concourse.

In February 2010, work started to reconfigure the northern end of the centre,[13] creating larger retail units and an enhanced street frontage, and linking with a major retail and residential development that is scheduled to take place on an adjacent site following the departure of the Ram Brewery from Wandsworth town centre.

The smaller units in the North Mall were amalgamated to provide a large anchor store (covering 30,000 square feet (2,800 m2)) let to TK Maxx.

The most recently completed phase has involved the demolition and replacement of the centre's dilapidated eastern frontage along Garratt Lane to create 20,000 feet (6,100 m) of new shopfronts.

[5] Relocation of the Wandsworth branch of Jobcentre Plus (which occupied a four-storey office building above Arndale Walk, that needed to be demolished as part of the second stage of the redevelopment) proved to be controversial, with few alternative locations available, and opposition to the possibility of it being moved to a residential area in Southfields.

The multiplex cinema would later become one of the first branches of Cineworld, whose Chief Executive, Steve Wiener had long known Mr Gertner.

They obtained a revised planning permission in 2002 for a larger and more extensive redevelopment than the previous Fordgate Wandsworth project, which included a 36,000 sq ft branch of Primark, an increase in the size of the cinema to 14 screens, as well as the demolition and reconstruction of the southern end of the centre including retail space and the multistorey car park, and a comprehensive refurbishment of the interior of the centre (aside from Arndale Walk), and implemented these plans over the following two years.

Metro Shopping Fund secured a financing facility to support the development of the two phases of the extension along Garratt Lane (the first of which is now complete), from Bayerische Landesbank and Deutsche Pfandbriefbank.

The centre from King George's Park, showing four of the five tower blocks built near to the shopping centre
Boarded up shops in Arndale Walk, the last "1970s" part of the centre, which was demolished in 2013
Garratt Lane entrance, showing a redeveloped and extended part of the centre (on the left, with the cinema above the shops), and the lower 1971 structure (on the right)
The northern entrance, which was reclad as part of the Wandsworth LP redevelopment in the early 2000s