I’m conflicted because on one hand it’s a good thing within the parameters of the system we live in (maximise the economic value of the area), but on the other I just don’t like the path we’ve been on for decades of turning the entire centre of the city into a sanitised theme park for tourists.
There is such a thing as redevelopment to keep the city moving. But this is actually the death of a city being disguised as progress. Instead of living and breathing with residents, it becomes a museum piece to be consumed by visitors.
Maybe we don’t need a meat market anymore, but do we really need another shopping centre with a Zara, Five Guys and Uniqlo? What does that really bring to Londoners?
Signed 👍🙏
Oh look, another meaningless petition.
It’s a bit late the building has been earmarked to become the new museum of London and museum of migration
And it’s not gonna make a single bit of difference.
Maybe if those 15,000 people actually shopped there the market wouldn’t be closing in the first place.
Given that it won’t be replaced by anything better, yeah keep it. I’ll take the odd slab of steak meat after a late finish than some generic shops I’ll never go to.
So much unnecessary congestion & road pollution is generated by that market.
It makes no sense to have hundreds of large lorries driving down narrow busy streets right into the City of London and then idling for hours every day/ night with engines running the entire time to keep refrigeration units going. Then restaurant vans doing the same (most going back out of the city centre). It doesn’t even prevent journeys for city centre restaurants as they already have to get everything else from hubs further out.
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Would like to sign, anyone have a link?
I’m conflicted because on one hand it’s a good thing within the parameters of the system we live in (maximise the economic value of the area), but on the other I just don’t like the path we’ve been on for decades of turning the entire centre of the city into a sanitised theme park for tourists.
There is such a thing as redevelopment to keep the city moving. But this is actually the death of a city being disguised as progress. Instead of living and breathing with residents, it becomes a museum piece to be consumed by visitors.
Maybe we don’t need a meat market anymore, but do we really need another shopping centre with a Zara, Five Guys and Uniqlo? What does that really bring to Londoners?
Signed 👍🙏
Oh look, another meaningless petition.
It’s a bit late the building has been earmarked to become the new museum of London and museum of migration
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8er2g6kyd0o
Will be futile unfortunately
And it’s not gonna make a single bit of difference.
Maybe if those 15,000 people actually shopped there the market wouldn’t be closing in the first place.
Given that it won’t be replaced by anything better, yeah keep it. I’ll take the odd slab of steak meat after a late finish than some generic shops I’ll never go to.
So much unnecessary congestion & road pollution is generated by that market.
It makes no sense to have hundreds of large lorries driving down narrow busy streets right into the City of London and then idling for hours every day/ night with engines running the entire time to keep refrigeration units going. Then restaurant vans doing the same (most going back out of the city centre). It doesn’t even prevent journeys for city centre restaurants as they already have to get everything else from hubs further out.
Here’s the petition: [https://www.change.org/p/save-smithfield-market-5a13a4cf-2e0a-4f1e-adac-ae9ee27f5b76](https://www.change.org/p/save-smithfield-market-5a13a4cf-2e0a-4f1e-adac-ae9ee27f5b76)
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