Business owners and staff at The Trentham Estate are celebrating after annual figures released this week by estate owners St. Modwen have revealed a five-fold increase in annual visits to the Gardens since 2008.

During 2015 the restored Trentham Gardens has continued to prove increasingly popular with almost 545,000 paid entry visits. This represents a rise of 14 per cent on the previous year and total visits to the whole Estate are now well over three million per year.

The successful increase in footfall has also resulted in a bumper year for the Trentham Garden Centre and shops, cafes and restaurants in the Trentham Shopping Village, with an overall increase in turnover of around six per cent during 2015.  This is compared with the 2015 statistics from the ONS of a national growth of 2.6 per cent in spending in non food shops.

Mike Herbert, regional director for St. Modwen, said: “The Trentham Garden Centre continues to be very popular and all 62 shops, cafes and restaurants at Trentham Shopping Village remain fully occupied.

“During 2015 we also welcomed new businesses including Cornerstone jewellers, The Bakehouse Café Bar and the newly built Joe’s Kitchen restaurant, which opened in November and has created dozens of new jobs.”

The success of the shops, cafes and restaurants at Trentham comes as the Estate plans to build the final ‘Phase 3’ of the Shopping Village which will see an additional 26 units being built for shop, café and restaurant use.

This final phase will also incorporate a large dedicated Sports and Leisure outlet.

For more details and to download a brochure about the Phase 3 development at Trentham log on tohttps://bit.ly/1PPmqKN and for full details of all events, opening times, discounts, restaurants and shops at the Trentham Estate visit www.trentham.co.uk