POOLE'S latest shopping district, boasting ten 'hand-picked independent retailers', has opened to the public for the first time.
The Kingland development, at Kingland Crescent adjoining the Dolphin Shopping Centre, has been billed as a 'boutique shopping experience' and is part of ambitious plans to breath new life into Poole town centre.
Backed by The Dolphin Shopping Centre landlords, Legal & General, the ten new outlets will not have to pay any rent or business rates for the first two years.
And in time there are plans to hold a street market at Kingland with up to 20 independent vendors – and a programme of 300 local events.