Now that funds have trickled down to the market via the Good Growth fund for improvements, the Council and their partners and consultants want to get their ‘greedy’ mitts on the dosh.
Fancy architects and engagement people are being shipped in from outside of the borough and they have more say than local people who rely on Queen’s Market as a lifeline. Below is a section of a stakeholder mapping chart where you can read the names of many organisations that are not near Queen’s Market but suddenly have more say in what happens, while locals are not allowed on the working groups due to arbitrary rules. We think this is a ploy by the Council and its consultants to undermine the local people’s voices that clearly want to “save Queen’s Market” and “keep it in public hands”.
We ask: do locals in Upton Park get a say in what happens in Stratford’s former Olympics site?
To promote and preserve a thriving publicly-owned historic street market 