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What do people think of ceasing trade on one of the slowest market days?
Newark Advertiser
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22/09/2023
In its weekly voxpop the Advertiser found out people’s opinions on ceasing a Newark market day.
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I hear that the council is considering closing the market from two days to one day. I think
00:07
that's a great shame. There's been a market in Newark marketplace since medieval times
00:19
and it brings people into the town, it gives it a vibrant bustle that it doesn't have on
00:25
days like today and I think that would be a great pity.
00:29
I think it would be a shame because there's more and more markets disappearing and if
00:33
they get rid of that then everything else is going within Newark so it would just be
00:38
a shame if that was to go as well because it's not just a market, it's a different market
00:42
so it would be a real shame.
00:44
Well I reckon the market wants completely altered going back to what it used to be,
00:50
Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays but I also think that the town council should really
00:56
consider dropping the price of the charging for about a year and encourage people to come
01:02
on to the market. At the moment that is not happening and every week you see it going
01:08
downhill. I remember when you used to have to queue up to get a stall on this market
01:14
and now look at it, an absolute disgrace.
01:18
The reason I come to Newark is that I live in Lincoln and this little town is so picturesque
01:24
that I love to come and take photographs and the marketplace is a centrepiece and this
01:30
is why I like to come here and hopefully it will remain open for a while yet.
01:36
Well we received a letter, a form, giving us various options and asking us to put our
01:43
opinion down and that was it. We filled it in and we've heard no more. That was a consultation
01:52
and I suppose that was it. We just had one little letter, we filled in our opinion on
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various options and as I say we've heard no more. There's been no discussion with us,
02:03
no comeback, nobody wanting to know any of the suggestions we put forward, nobody's discussed
02:11
anything with us and as far as I know they had already made their mind up before this
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letter came out and a decision seems to have already been made and we're as much in the
02:26
dark I think as the general public are. I wouldn't use the word consultation, I think
02:32
they're stretching their credibility in some way. We've had no face to face discussion
02:39
with any official counsellors and I haven't discussed any alternatives or any suggestions
02:47
we put forward for the running of the markets and we're just having to accept I think we
02:54
now realise that by the end of the year we may no longer have a collector's market here
03:00
in Newark anymore.
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