Concern over further planning application for Stratford s Waterside market
| Updated: 22:43, 26 January 2021
BUSINESSES in Stratford believe they are being overlooked again as the district council moves to formally allow for larger open-air markets.
Firms, already hit by Covid restrictions, are concerned a new planning application for Waterside will allow the craft and food market to carry on using parts of the area where no planning permission currently exists.
The application, which was made by SDC, is seeking permission to allow the market, which during normal times operates on Sundays and bank holidays, to increase the number of market stalls by 12 . The retrospective application seeks a change of use from public open space to a mixed use to allow for stalls as well as ticket sales, leisure and recreation.