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context: throughout Greater Manchester region and beyond. Planning permission was granted in 1993 before being rejected by the Court of Appeal. It was reinstated in 1995 when the House of Lords gave approval for the development. Construction began in 1996 and the centre opened on 10 September 1998 becoming the UK's first "mega mall" which combined retail, dining and leisure facilities. On opening, the Trafford Centre was the largest shopping centre in the UK but lost the title to Bluewater in Kent in 1999. However, due to numerous expansions since 2006, the Trafford Centre is now larger than Bluewater. Due to </s> further expansions at the Metrocentre in Gateshead, it has once again been reduced to the second largest of its kind in the UK. The Peel Group sold the centre to Capital Shopping Centres (CSC) in January 2011 for £1.6 billion and John Whittaker, chairman of Peel Group, became deputy chairman of CSC. Peel owner John Whittaker later said the company could have sold the centre for over £2 billion if they had received cash but the £1.6 billion deal remained the largest property transaction in British history, and the biggest European property deal of 2011. The Trafford Centre is valued </s> Westfield London Westfield London is a shopping centre in White City, London, United Kingdom, in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham. The centre was developed by the Westfield Group at a cost of £1.6bn, on a site bounded by the West Cross Route (A3220), the Westway (A40) and Wood Lane (A219). It opened on 30 October 2008 and became the largest covered shopping development in the capital, dethroning the Whitgift Centre in Croydon. After further investment and expansion, it became the largest shopping centre in Europe in March 2018. The centre is in the White City district, where several
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