The Fort Shopping Park

parking is supposed to be free? i was desperate to use the rest room, could not find a parking space, so parked in the disable parking space to go use the rest room. came back after 5minutes and was given a 60pounds fine. would never go back there again! and would not recommend it.

Yes the Fort is a great place to shop with easy parking, but be warned
I would not recommend BHS. The staff ignore you and do not like like serving behind the till and are quite happy to see a long queue with just one person serving whilst they stand around chatting.

While it's by no means a huge retail centre, it's convenient, with tons of free parking, and good-sized stores including Boots, M&S, Next, Oasis, HMV and Warehouse.
If you're planning on doing general high street browsing, and not looking for a huge number of stores, this is ideal - and easily covered in an hour or two.

Very convenient and just off the motorway. Lots of parking which is good because this place can get crowded on Saturday. Good choice of shops

Great place to shop and free parking, however you may not have a great deal of choice in comparison to say the Bullring or Touchwood Solihull

A great place to shop, with some great shops, With a selection of the arcadia group, topman/ top shop, dp, evans, burton and With BHS recently having a multi million pound make over, it really brings “the New” style BHS into the 21st centry!!! Over all a great place

i love this place - fair selection of large shops - out of town so free n easy parking and open late all year round

The fort is a brilliant place to shop, they have loads of shops like bhs, mothercare, hmv, starbucks, and few sports shops and few places to eat.
Plenty of parking here and its all free.
This is a great place to shop if you want to dump your bags before going onto the next shop.
The only thing i will say is the layout is a bit strange and there is not enough toilets

an absolutly amazing shopping experiance, you can get all u need and more from 1 place,with shops like suit direct, boots,food stores,clarks etc
it has a large car park which is free, the shopping centre is clean and alot friendlier looking than other local shopping centres.i also like how my local bus drops me straight into the centre, saves the hassle of travelling with shopping n 2 kids.
the security appears to be on stand by also which leaves any worries at the door.

the fort shopping park is great!! with some of the popular shops around!! there is plenty of parking and nice choice of food to eat!! although it can get quite busy! you have to expect that with where it is situated!

I don’t really understand the point of this shopping centre or why it’s always so crowded. I suppose if you drive it’s got a big free car park, but otherwise it’s just a very dull U-shaped open mall dominated by a huge car park.

All of the shops are standard-issue, cookie-cutter high street chains and there’s just nothing interesting about it. They have improved it to a degree recently with a lot more food outlets and a small branch of Debenhams and an extended M&S, but there’s still nothing here you couldn’t find practically anywhere else.

Free car parking and good security (loads of guards hanging about and it does feel safe and clean) is the only positive thing I can think to say about this place - but make sure you don’t park anywhere you shouldn’t because their clampers are really hot!

I just find it depressing - corporate and pointless. It doesn’t even have such a great range of stores compared to a proper covered mall.

A brilliant shopping park with many popular shops. Shops include Dorothy Perkins, BHS, Debenhams, HMV and Marks & Spencer. It also now has a Nando’s and a Starbucks plus a kids indoor play area.
During the weekdays its pretty causual around here, but on weekends, and evenings towards Christmas it can get very busy around here.
Its got ample free parking and a bus stop right outside, so its easy to reach for anybody.

The Fort is a retail park with a few of the most popular high street stores, but in GIANT form!

There is literally every item of clothing that a store can stock under one roof, and the range of shops is good too… there is a Next, River Island, JJB Sports, and others.

My only criticism is that, being such large shops, you tend to have to do a bit of walking backwards and forwards to get to the ones you want, but i could be accused of simply being lazy here - If I didnt want to move, I guess I could always internet shop!

But The Fort is the ideal place to 'nip’ to one particulalr store without having to fight your way through a city centre.

This is a really nice place to shop with a good variety of goods on offer. There is ample parking even on a busy Saturday in the run up to christmas although you may have to use the underground car park if its really busy. On one of my visits I was in a store when a parent lost a child that had wandered out the shop and you can imagine they were in quite a state as people were searching trying to find the child an announcement came over the tannoy that a lost child had been found in another store. Every parents worse nightmare but the helpfulness of the people in the shopping park and it was quickly resolved and mother and child were reunited.

Nice range of shops, few fast food places. Big HMV and lots of parking near to the motorway.

The fort is a shopping centre of conveniance, for late night shoppers after work.
It has free parking and has just refurbished part of it’s car park into a new food court.
It has occassional events on and has the usual high street stores.
Although it does need another chain to bring a bit more variety to the shopping it will satisfy most shoppers

Had always thought it was lacking something, and it has just opened a Scallywag’s play centre for kids! I think that having it there is great as shopping can be a pain for kids, but now you can make a day of it and stop off there and even go to Nandos (also new) for a bite to eat!

Shop wise it has a good variety, most of the Arcadia fashion group shops as well as HMV, whsmiths, card shops, sports, elc, mother care, boots, phone shops, coffee, bhs, m&s, next…. and a few more all in one area which has a slight cover so when its raining you only get wet on the run back to the car!

A good selection of shops such as Brantano footwear, clarks, boots, debenhams, marks and spencers, and whsmiths. There is plenty of space for parking cars but it is not easily accessible via public transport. Could be improved with a bit more variety in shops and a greater choice of food.

A good array of shops, east to get round and a few places to stop for lunch or a quick coffee.

I like it as it has a good selection of high street shops without you having to go into the city centre.

Marks and Spencers, Boots and Debenhams are particually good. It also has good baby changing facilities and is not too busy at weekends. Plentiful parking.

The Fort Shopping Park is a collection of about 30 or so High Street Shops.... Its around 15 minutes drive north of Birmingham City Centre. This is a good place to go if you like the big names such as Marks and Spencers, Boots, BHS, Debenhams, etc. They're mostly all here on level and within one easy walk. However, its best avoided if you like unusual, niche shops - there isn't one.
There is one particularly good point about this place, that sets it apart from its City Centre counterparts and that's the plentiful car parking (go uto the underground car park on busy days) and its absolutely free of charge to park for as long as you want.