{"id":619429,"date":"2025-12-08T05:45:20","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T05:45:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/619429\/"},"modified":"2025-12-08T05:45:20","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T05:45:20","slug":"skirlington-market-holds-christmas-event-ahead-of-closure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/619429\/","title":{"rendered":"Skirlington market holds Christmas event ahead of closure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The market usually closes in December until the spring, but if planning permission is granted, it would not reopen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The market has been running since 1986, and Mr Parry explained that moving it now would be too expensive.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We&#8217;d have to spend \u00a32m, so you&#8217;d [sic] be 25 years before you even got your money back,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Once it&#8217;s gone, it&#8217;s gone. We&#8217;ve got all these sheds, we&#8217;ve got the indoor markets, we&#8217;ve got toilet blocks, sewage systems, electricity, car parks, tarmac roads. We got full planning for a market, and you just can&#8217;t get that, and it wouldn&#8217;t be lucrative to do it.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The market usually closes in December until the spring, but if planning permission is granted, it would not&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":619430,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[53,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-619429","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-technology","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115682366422289018","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=619429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619429\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/619430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=619429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=619429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=619429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}