FOUR stores on a major shopping complex are to close as one of its largest tenant companies pulls out of the site.

The Monks Cross Shopping Centre on the outskirts of York is the latest casualty of the struggling sector as British retail giant Arcadia reveals it will not be renewing its leases on the park.

The move will see the closure of Evans, TopMan, TopShop, Miss Selfridge and Outfit, with job losses expected.

Arcadia did not comment on its decision not to renew the leases, nor confirm the number of staff affected.

The move came to light after the landlord for the site, the Monks Cross Shopping Park Trust, secured planning permission to convert Unit 10, which houses Outfit, and Unit 12, which is home to the other brands, into multiple smaller units.

The stores all sit on the same south-facing row of the shopping park, which is already blighted by the former BHS store which has been empty since August 2016.

Management at Monks Cross declined to comment on how the closures will affect the retail park.