About Us
Gloucester Quays
Gloucester Quays is a joint venture between Peel Holdings and British Waterways and is one of the largest mixed use waterside regeneration developments in the UK.
This imaginative and visionary scheme will provide an attractive environment for residents and become a major destination for shoppers and tourists. The colourful heritage of the Quays will be preserved and enhanced, blended with contemporary design of new buildings.
The 60 acre, £400 million development will provide over 150,000 sq m (1.6 million sq ft) of floorspace
Within the scheme is the Gloucester Quays Designer Outlet which is due to open in Spring of this year.
Peel
The Peel Group is one of the leading property and transport companies in the UK with assets valued at over £4.5bn.
Within its four divisions the businesses include:
- The Trafford Centre, an award winning regional shopping and leisure complex
- Peel Land & Property, owners of substantial property investment, development and land assets.
- Peel Ports, operators of the ports of Mersey Docks and Harbour Company, Clydeport and the Manchester Ship Canal
- Peel Airports, operators of Liverpool John Lennon Airport, Durham Tees Valley Airport, Robin Hood Airport Doncaster Sheffield and City of Manchester Airport.
- Peel Advertising offers a wide range of media products reaching huge audiences at prestigious locations such as The Trafford Centre and Liverpool John Lennon Airport.
British Waterways
British Waterways is the public corporation that cares for the 2,200-mile network of canals and rivers in England, Scotland and Wales. Our role is to ensure that the waterways can be used for all to enjoy, now and for many years to come.
Our purpose is to protect the historic waterways in our care, to secure and earn the necessary funding, to grow the numbers who value and invest in them and to optimise the public benefit they can deliver.
The work we carry out is extraordinarily varied. Above all else we must maintain our inland waterways so they are safe and accessible for the 11 million people who visit them every year as well as for the 32,000 boats based on them. We must also ensure that we secure enough income to enable us to do this. We work with public sector bodies, private sector partners and the voluntary sector, and reinvest all the income we earn back into maintaining our canals and rivers.
Rust Design
Based in Greater Manchester, Rust Design is the development company behind the Gloucester Quays website. In addition to the website, Rust Design were also involved in many other areas of the Designer Outlet Centre's development including, but not limited to:
- the Gloucester Quays logo and branding
- a selection of printed media including brochures and leaflets
- various types of promotional material such as stationary, bags and the gift card box
- the interactive outlet map
- the signage used throughout the Designer Outlet Centre
- 3D animations which were used during development to help clients and the general public visualise the scheme
- hoardings for the site whilst under development
