Meadowhall (shopping centre) stop is located 15 minutes from the city centre and Meadowhall is used as a park and ride. The Yellow Line from Meadowhall passes the Sheffield Arena, Ice Sheffield, the Institute Of Sport and the Valley Centertainment entertainment complex. The interchange has a large bus station with routes covering most of South Yorkshire, but especially the local Sheffield and Rotherham area. There is a multi-platform railway station at Meadowhall which has several routes to and from Doncaster, Sheffield and Manchester Piccadilly. The Centre has won awards, including two awards for innovative events at the ICSC maxi awards 2006, held in
Retail park at households owning a car, though there are often also bus services. They are an alternative to busy city centres. Such developments have been encouraged by cheaper, more affordable land on the outskirts of towns and cities, and with loose planning controls in a number of Enterprise Zones, making planning and development very easy. In recent years, in many areas across the UK, planning controls have been tightened to preserve the countryside. This has made it more difficult for such developments to proceed, resulting in many smaller, more compact retail parks, sometimes consisting of only three or four stores being