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Help Save Smithfield General Market!


Smithfield General Market and Fish Market is a great Victorian landmark and is one of the biggest surviving groups of old market buildings in Western Europe. In fact, Smithfield General Market and Anex constitute London’s last threatened market halls. Unfortunately, if the new plans are granted, the proposals will lead to its destruction.


This special market is a public asset, which is owned by the City of London Corporation. Since the 1980’s, when the market closed, it has largely been kept out of use.


According to SAVE (and something we agree with), these buildings are capable of reuse with minimal intervention, and are potentially a huge asset to this part of


Recently, I had the pleasure of meeting a very inspirational man called Marcus Binney, President of SAVE Britain’s heritage, who informed me of the current plans to destroy Smithfield General Market and replace it with offices up to 20 metres high. As a strong supporter of Britain’s high streets and the retail economy in general, we wanted to share this with our readers!


the City, yet they are unmaintained and disused.


In 2008 the Public inquiry inspector concluded that the site offers an opportunity for regeneration of the kind undertaken at Covent Garden, Spitalfields, Greenwich or Camden Lock. The Inspector concluded that the City should place the site on the open market to allow the viability of conservation‐led schemes to be tested, thus avoiding demolition.


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