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Shake-up for town’s markets
Friday 24th April 2009, 1:47PM BST.
A major shake-up of Oswestry’s indoor and outdoor markets is in the pipeline, it was revealed today.
The revamp could see the town’s indoor market at Powis Hall held one day less a week and a new location found for the monthly farmers’ market.
Oswestry Town Council, which runs the markets, is set to challenge Shropshire Council’s decision to grant street licences to stallholders who previously traded on the Bailey Head outdoor market but now trade on Bailey Street.
The council fears the breakaway traders have led to the “fragmentation” of the outdoor market on Bailey Head.
Town clerk David Preston said the proposal to run the Powis Hall market one day less a week would go out to consultation with traders and would be discussed at a meeting at the start of next month.
The town council is also investigating whether the granting of licences for street trading in Bailey Street by Shropshire Council has contravened its market rights.
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I thought the intention was to save the market and the traders, surely holding it one day less will only see more traders leave the market, instead of regenerating new traders. So it looks like just the council will benefit from this and save money .
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Revamp????!!!! Wind-down more like.
It’s nothing to do with breakaway traders causing fragmentation. It’s because Oswestry Town Council can’t be bothered to run it properly, hoping it will go into decline enough so no one will moan when they decide to realise the value of the site by selling it.
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The market is very out-dated. There is nothing much there. If the council were interested in saving it they would up-date it and make it more appealling. With so many empty shops along the way to get there, it makes for a quite depressing shopping trip. I personally stop at the bottom to buy some flowers and don’t venture any further.
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