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===Seacroft Green Shopping Centre=== In 1999, work began clearing the site and in 2000 the new Seacroft Green Shopping Centre opened. The [[Tesco]] supermarket was cited at the time to be the largest in Europe, a claim which may not have been true. It is, however, still an enormous supermarket spread over two levels (the second being a large mezzanine level, which was built a few years after the Tesco store had opened to give more space within the store). The car park was also enlarged and other shop units were built along the side of the supermarket, making the centre a crescent shape. The huge supermarket as well as the other shops promised to create hundreds more jobs then would be lost through the loss of trade in the Civic Centre, which among other factors made the redevelopment favourable with many Seacroft residents.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lmu.ac.uk/lbs/pri/research/projects/Reports/01136.pdf |title=Microsoft Word - 01136-TESCOJobGuarantee-Report.doc |access-date=28 December 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070307085754/http://www.lmu.ac.uk/lbs/pri/research/projects/Reports/01136.pdf |archive-date=7 March 2007 }}</ref> [[File:SeacroftSCentre.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Tesco at The Seacroft Green Shopping Centre]] The Seacroft Green Shopping Centre is also the main transport interchange in Seacroft, with the main bus station for Seacroft and the surrounding areas being centred there. From here buses run out through the estate as well as to the [[Leeds city centre|city centre]], [[Wetherby]] and [[Harrogate]]. Seacroft bus station has five stands and an average daily footfall of 2,687.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.wymetro.com/BusTravel/BusStationsAndStops/SeacroftBusStation.htm|title=West Yorkshire Metro | Bus Stations & Stops | Seacroft Bus Station|publisher=West Yorkshire Metro|access-date=28 December 2008|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130105131849/http://www.wymetro.com/BusTravel/BusStationsAndStops/SeacroftBusStation.htm|archive-date=5 January 2013|df=dmy-all}}</ref> (See Transport) The centre was not entirely popular with many local residents who said they had lost their town centre to a Tesco supermarket and to an extent, this may be true. Although there are shops besides Tesco, they are far fewer than there were, the precinct area has been lost, the pubs in the centre have been lost, and there are no offices. Until the building of the new centre, and since the closure of [[Grandways]], it was said that Seacroft suffered from 'food poverty' and fresh produce could not be bought on the estate. This was probably not true as there was a [[Co-op]] (now [[McColl's|McColls]] in 2018) on South Parkway.<ref>{{cite journal |title=Urban Regeneration, Social Inclusion and Large Store Development: The Seacroft Development in Context |journal= Urban Studies}}</ref> The rebuilding of the Civic Centre did not alter the deprivation on the estate. Throughout the 2000s (decade), the condition of many of the houses on the estate deteriorated, particularly amongst the prefabricated housing to the South West of the estate. Many houses were vacated and either their condition or lack of demand dictated that the council boarded them up. The estate's high rise flats are seen as a refuge as they are harder to break into and in better condition than the houses, as such they have largely been allocated to older residents. Some (including Queensview) have become sheltered housing.
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