As if the global Covid-19 lockdown was not hard enough for local people and as if development companies didn’t have enough money in their pockets, Newham Council have built yet more fancy flats on top of a historic market and obliterated the market in the process-!
Poor East Ham Market has been swallowed up by overshadowing flats and turned into a dead end (Myrtle Road); once a thriving place that gave jobs to local people is now nowhere to be seen.
Newham Council officers and public representatives always say they want to keep markets and even promised a local Markets Policy but to date it’s nowhere to be seen. Only a few years ago officers from the planning department invited the Friends of Queen’s Market for a chat about local markets and promised to improve East Ham Market- hollow words from officers with little knowledge and shame on the ‘career’ politicians who enable this behaviour. It shows that they simply do not care. It’s little wonder nobody trusts the ‘weasel’ words of Newham Council, its developer “friends” and the vast array of private consultants that surround them these days.
Scrolling gallery 1 (above): can you see a street market? We can’t. East Ham Market is destroyed and turned into a dead end road. Who made the big bucks we wonder?
A “Your Community Forum” notice board that you cannot access, pin up on, nor read properly… so much for the Council’s promises of “co-creation”
Scrolling gallery 2 (above): How East Ham Market use to look (source: Pinterest.co.uk)
To promote and preserve a thriving publicly-owned historic street market 