Crystal Peaks

Established in 1988, the centre attracts around 11 million visitors a year.

Crystal Peaks

Main entrance
Location	Sheffield, England
Coordinates	53°20′31″N 1°21′04″W / 53.342°N 1.351°W / 53.342; -1.351
Opening date	March 1988
Owner	Britel Fund Trustees Ltd
Total retail floor area	635,000 sq ft (59,000 m2) (shopping centre) and 77,800 sq ft (7,230 m2) (retail park)
No. of floors	2

Crystal Peaks Shopping centre has approximately 600,000 sq ft (56,000 m²) of retail space and food outlets with a range chains and a supermarket. The centre has an indoor market of smaller businesses (operated by Sheffield City Council), a medical centre, veterinary surgery, bus station as well as other facilities and services.

The nearby retail park has a number of larger stores, restaurants and warehouses as well as a gym, a police station, Beighton Community Hospital and the Sheffield College Peaks Campus.

Bee hives have been placed on the shopping centre's roof and bee-friendly flowers planted to help the local bee population, other environmental projects include the installation of swift bird boxes on the building, creating a nature reserve and supporting the village of Beighton in Britain and Yorkshire in Bloom competitions.

Crystal Peaks also has a dedicated 'charity of the year'. In 2010, the centre raised over £8,000 for Bluebell Wood Children's Hospice. The centre's adopted charity for 2011 was Macmillan Cancer Support.^{[citation needed]}

Crystal Peaks first opened in 1988, being developed in phases. Opening ceremonies attracted large crowds to see Roland Rat and then Eddie "The Eagle" Edwards do the honours. The Olympic ski jumper Edwards performed a stunt on wires from the top of the atrium above the escalators.

Originally, the centre had a central waterfall, stream, clock tower modelled lift and model railway. Sheffield's first ten screen cinema, was also part of the complex until 2003.

Since opening, the centre has developed substantially. They was a western extension in 1998. The supermarket was relocated to the in 2006 for further extensions to the north and east opened in early 2007.

Interior shots of the shopping centre were used for the 2010 film Four Lions, in which a character is depicted as working as a shopping centre security guard.

Crystal Peaks bus station
General information
Location	Peaks Mount, Mosborough Sheffield (S20 7JD) England
Coordinates	53°20′30″N 1°21′14″W / 53.3418°N 1.3540°W / 53.3418; -1.3540
Owned by	Crystal Peaks Shopping Centre
Operated by	Travel South Yorkshire
Bus stands	8
Bus operators	First South Yorkshire, Stagecoach Yorkshire, TM Travel
Construction
Parking	Yes (free, in shopping centre)
Bicycle facilities	Yes
Accessible	Yes
History
Opened	1988

Bus station

Crystal Peaks bus station is located off of Peaks Mount on the western side of the shopping centre, with a direct entrance into the shopping centre. The bus station is located nearby to the Crystal Peaks tram stop, and together provide a public transport hub for south-east Sheffield.

Services

As of July 2022^[update], the stand allocation is:

Stand	Route	Destination
CP1	27	Rotherham            via Beighton, Aston, Swallownest, Aughton, Whiston and Rotherham General Hospital (First)
	30a	Plumbley      via Westfield   (TM Travel)
	55	Plumbley      via Westfield   and Mosborough (TM Travel)
	73, 74	Clowne      via Halfway  , Eckington  , Killamarsh, Spinkhill, Renishaw and Barlborough (Stagecoach)
CP2	26, 26a	Thorpe Salvin (circular)      via Waterthorpe  , Killamarsh, Norwood, Wales, Kiveton Park  , Thorpe Salvin, Harthill and Woodall (Stagecoach)
	80	Chesterfield        via Waterthorpe  , Killamarsh, Norwood, Mastin Moor and Staveley (Stagecoach)
CP3	55	Frecheville      via Hackenthorpe   (TM Travel)
	252	Sheffield Interchange            via Waterthorpe  , Halfway  , Eckington  , Marsh Lane, Ridgeway, Gleadless Townend  , Newfield Green and Arundel Gate     (TM Travel)
CP4	120	Halfway        via Waterthorpe   (Stagecoach)
CP5	7	Ecclesfield      via Beighton, Woodhouse  , the Manor, Sheffield City Centre      , Hillsborough, Owlerton and Wadsley Bridge (Stagecoach)
	30, 30a	Royal Hallamshire Hospital      via Sothall, Beighton, Woodhouse  , Handsworth, Sheffield City Centre       and the University of Sheffield   (TM Travel)
CP6	8, 8a	Ecclesfield      via Birley, the Manor, Sheffield City Centre      , Hillsborough, Owlerton and Wadsley Bridge (First)
	120	Fulwood      via Frecheville, Manor Top    , Sheffield Interchange      , the University of Sheffield  , the Royal Hallamshire Hospital, Broomhill and Ranmoor (First & Stagecoach)
CP7	80	Sheffield, Moor Market        via Beighton, Woodhouse, Handsworth and Arundel Gate     (Stagecoach)
CP8	–	no services allocated

Tram stop

Crystal Peaks tram stop is located in Waterthorpe on the Sheffield Supertram system, and serves Crystal Peaks Shopping Centre and Retail Park, Drakehouse Retail Park, and Waterthorpe. It consists of two platforms.

Crystal Peaks is also served by the Beighton/Drake House Lane tram stop, which is located behind the "Green" car park.