Braehead
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| Location | Renfrewshire, Scotland |
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| Coordinates | 55°52′34″N 4°21′53″W / 55.875987°N 4.364843°WCoordinates: 55°52′34″N 4°21′53″W / 55.875987°N 4.364843°W |
| Opening date | 1999 |
| Owner | Intu |
| No. of stores and services | 110 |
| No. of anchor tenants | 7 (Primark, New Look, Boots, Next, Marks & Spencer, Sainsbury's and IKEA) |
| Total retail floor area | 98,474 m2 (1,059,970 sq ft) |
| No. of floors | 2 |
Braehead (Scots: Braeheid,Gaelic: Ceann a' Bhruthaich) is a commercial development located at the former site of Braehead Power Station in Renfrew on the south bank of the River Clyde in Renfrewshire. It is particularly notable for its large shopping centre, arena and leisure facilities.
The shopping centre was rebranded as Intu Braehead in 2013 as part of a corporate rebranding exercise by Capital Shopping Centres plc, now known as intu Properties plc.
The power station was built after World War II. It remained operational into the 1980s, being demolished in the 1980s/1990s.
Braehead forms part of the Renfrew Riverside redevelopment area, a part of the wider Clyde Waterfront Regeneration project. The Braehead area includes:
The shopping centre opened in late 1999. It comprises 98,474 m2 (1,059,970 sq ft) of retail and leisure floorspace. The centre has 110 shops in the main covered mall, and a further 10 in a retail park of larger stores. Braehead is also home to Renfrew's IKEA store which opened in 2001 and sits near the King George V Dock. At 29,000 m2 it is the largest IKEA store in Scotland and at the time of opening was the largest in the United Kingdom. Since opening, the centre has proved popular with consumers (indeed it has been blamed for a downturn in the fortunes of shops in nearby Paisley, Govan and Renfrew).
Sited within the same building as the shopping centre is the Braehead Arena and other facilities such as an ice rink. In 2000 its curling facilities hosted the World Championships, and in 2005 were used as training facilities when the Women's World Championships were being held in Paisley.
On 7 October 2011, a father was stopped by security and questioned by police under anti-terror legislation after photographing his daughter at an ice-cream stall. This resulted in a social media backlash and statements from both Braehead's management and Strathclyde Police.
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