SEVERAL much-loved high street stores are to vanish from a shopping centre.

Clothes stores Miss Selfridge, Burton and Dorothy Perkins in Churchill Square, Brighton, will all be closing later this month.

All three brands are currently offering “clearance sales” and are displaying signs outside with messages including “store closing sale” and “everything must go”.

Italian fashion brand Calzedonia and lingerie store Intimissimi have already shut.

A spokeswoman for the shopping centre said the clothes shops

would be closing on Saturday, October 26.

In May The Argus reported that sports clothing outlet JD Sports had applied for planning permission to move into a bigger space in Churchill Square in the units currently occupied by Dorothy Perkins, Burton, Miss Selfridge, Calzedonia and Intimissimi.

The sports fashion shop, which occupies a corner pitch in Churchill Square, hopes to create a new shopfront facing the piazza in the space left by the Burton and Dorothy Perkins.

The spokeswoman for Churchill Square said: “Churchill Square has confirmed that JD Sports will relocate within the centre to create a flagship store packed with more brands and provide a greater customer experience for shoppers to enjoy.

“The units it will occupy are the former Calzedonia and Intimissimi space, as well as Burton, Dorothy Perkins and Miss Selfridge.

“The shopping centre looks forward to the new JD Sports store opening in 2020.”

Miss Selfridge, Burton and Dorothy Perkins are both part of the Arcadia Group which is controlled by Sir Philip Green.

In June the Arcadia group had to be saved from administration.

Landlords of its stores approved a “rescue plan” in which the group would repay them through company voluntary arrangements (CVAs), an agreement between a business

and its creditors to repay corporate debts.

But, after this was announced in June, Arcadia group also said it may have to close a large number of the stores, putting thousands of jobs at risk.

But the approval of the arrangement meant a further 17,000 jobs would have been under threat.

The CVAs also meant that, in an agreement with landlords, rents would be cut at many of the group’s UK stores.

Ian Grabiner, chief executive of Arcadia Group, said: “I am confident about the future of Arcadia and our ability to provide our customers with the very best multi-channel experience, deliver the fashion trends that they demand and ultimately inspire a renewed loyalty to our brands that will support the long-term growth of our business.”