I will admit to being a huge fan of Queen’s Market. It is, in my opinion, the most vibrant market in all of London. So I can’t help but feel a good deal of sympathy with the Friends of Queen’s Market, a campaign created to save London’s most ethnically diverse market from being turned into an Asda (Wal-Mart), which has largely been achieved.
However, the market is not out of the woods yet. Campaigners are now working to force the council to act to keep the current developers, St. Mowden from replacing the adjacent Queen’s pub with 370 “executive” apartments and to gentrify the market.
They hope that by forcing a vote, they can have the market returned to public oversight and moved out of the hands of private developers. A planning application has not yet been made and comments can be sent via queens.market@newham.gov.uk or 020 7323 3544.
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