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To: Stockport Council
Save Stockport's Historic Market
Reverse the decision to close Stockport Market in its present location, and reverse the decision to relocate it away from the historic market place.
Why is this important?
My mother shopped at Stockport Market and I along with thousands of others have done so all my life. SMBC's policies over the last few years have had a negative affect on the market, particularly since the renovation of the market hall which allowed fewer stalls to operate. It feels that this has been a deliberate policy to run the market down. The market provides a low cost, high quality environment for people to shop. There are three good quality grocers, the only independent butcher, apart from Titterton's, in the town, an excellent independent bakers and again, the only independent delicatessen in the town. There is the only independent haberdashers alongside an ironmongers, stalls selling books, clothes, curtains, bedding - all of them independent. Stockport town centre is a heartless shrine to big name consumerism. The Market is a refreshing alternative to this and deserves to be cherished and nurtured, not have the heart ripped out of it.
