The façade collapsed in 2017 in Hatfield town centre
- Credit: Archant
Since the industrial decline in Hatfield during the 1990s, residents and politicians started examining whether the New Towns worked.
But even during this period between 1990 and 2000, plans were afoot to develop new areas of Hatfield with the Galleria, expansion of the University of Hertfordshire and Hatfield Business Park being the most notable example.
The development of the Galleria proved controversial, with developers of the site, the Carroll Group, going into receivership and later it becoming part of a legal battle. Landsec, its current owners, took it over in 2005.