{"id":699179,"date":"2026-07-19T00:01:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T00:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/699179\/"},"modified":"2026-07-19T00:01:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T00:01:18","slug":"swan-walk-in-horsham-exploring-options-to-safely-reopen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/699179\/","title":{"rendered":"Swan Walk in Horsham exploring options to safely reopen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Swan Walk in Horsham was forced to shut earlier this week after a pane of the building\u2019s glass ceiling fell into the centre.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  A spokesperson for the shopping centre <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theargus.co.uk\/news\/26288821.swan-walk-horsham-remain-closed-weekend\/?ref=ed_direct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">confirmed yesterday that it would remain closed over the weekend.<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  However, in an update issued this morning (July 18), the centre said that\u00a0the M&amp;S store located within it had reopened after the retailer installed a temporary protective structure at its entrance.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The store can currently be accessed via the centre\u2019s Carfax entrance or the M&amp;S lifts from the car park directly into the shop.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The rest of the centre remains closed while\u00a0specialist inspections and safety assessments continue.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\"\/>Swan Walk has remained closed after a glass panel fell from its ceiling (Image: Visit Horsham)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  A spokesperson for the centre said that it was exploring similar safe solutions to that implemented at M&amp;S and other options that could be extended across the centre.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  They added: &#8220;We will proceed with whichever option allows the quickest and safest reopening for the remainder of the centre.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;The safety of visitors, tenants, and staff remains our highest priority.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;We will provide a further update once more information is available and thank customers and businesses for their continued patience.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Swan Walk in Horsham was forced to shut earlier this week after a pane of the building\u2019s glass&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":696713,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[84,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-699179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=699179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699179\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/696713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=699179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=699179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=699179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}