Despite the ‘cluster of attacks’ from the Council’s planning department while the Good Growth funds are being swallowed up by private consultants, the Council have simultaneously started another group to look at partial or full-scale regeneration and redevelopment of Queen’s Market. FoQM are not happy that all these important things are taking place at once as it confuses people, and where the process has been less than transparent and privatisation of public land is likely to be considered.
The Council’s co-create website is so complicated and unclear that it’s not allowed a number of FoQM locals to get on board. Instead the same old “yes” people fill these spaces to say negative things about the market so to ‘rubber stamp’ regeneration.
We think that Newham Council’s Co-create website not only digitally excludes huge sections of our community for whom Queen’s Market is a lifeline, but the Council and their “friendly” consultants are complicit in not wanting to hear the true views of the diverse market users.
Do you know whether your voice will be heard in the Council’s Capacity and Viability study?
Link to the Capacity & Viability regeneration project: https://www.newham.gov.uk/regeneration-1/regeneration-project-green-street/3
To promote and preserve a thriving publicly-owned historic street market 