Erewash Borough Council are going ahead with plans to remove the fixed market stalls in the marketplace. They say the current stalls are badly damaged and attract anti-social behaviour. The cost of repairing the stalls and improving them would be £27,000. A report shows that only three traders use the market stalls on Tuesday and Wednesday and one uses them on a Friday. On Tuesday, February 18th, the borough council’s executive chose to go ahead with plans to remove the stalls. One councillor said:-“The market stalls are not where the council or traders want them, they want them in the high street, where all the footfall is, not tucked away. We will provide space on the high street for the affected traders. You don’t want to walk through dilapidated stalls, especially at night-time – when it attracts misbehaviour from quite a number of people. I will be glad to see the back of these stalls and get on with regenerating the town centre.”
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