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MARKET TRADER, FEBRUARY 2 - 15, 2018 Relocation worries
Traders at a struggling Sunday market in a Staffordshire car park fear that it may have to relocate after plans were revealed for a residential development and a hotel in the city centre. Hinde Street market, in
Hanley, was due to close after Stoke-on-Trent City Council said it was losing money, but it was later rescued following the introduction of a number of incentives for stallholders. Now market traders fear
they will have to leave the site after developer Gener8 announced plans to build two blocks of flats near to the Smithfield development on the other side of the city’s Potteries Way. A Hilton Garden Inn hotel is also due to open there. More than 100 of the current
spaces in Broad Street and Hinde Street car parks would be reserved for residents of the flats and hotel guests. Steven Taylor, who has
been sel l ing tools and hardware at markets in Hanley and Penkridge for almost 20 years, told local media: “We have heard about the plans to build a hotel and about them having to use part of the car park, but we’re not totally sure what’s happening. “But if they keep shutting
the car parks and making cutbacks there won’t be any markets to come to. “If they relocated Hinde
Street market, I probably wouldn’t carry on because we get a lot of the footfall here.” Richard Burrows has had
a children’s clothing stall on Hinde Street market for almost four years. He said: “Some days, we
can do really well and can take between £200 and £300, because the footfall is quite good. “We’re still not sure what is
going to happen with Hinde Street market, but I think it will eventually shut. If we were to relocate though, I’d like to see it go on the old bus station site.” Seventy one-year-old David
Jones, from Biddulph, runs a small electrical stall with his 40-year-old son, also called David. He added: “We would
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rather stay here at Hinde Street because the footfall is quite good when the weather is all right, but we have to do what the council says at the end of the day.” According to Stoke-on-
Trent City Council the future of the market on the Hinde Street car park is “under review”. A spokesman told local
media: “We have taken steps to reduce operational costs to help support the market on Hinde Street for the future. We keep the viability of all our markets under review and want to encourage markets across the city to thrive. “There are no current plans
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