by Paul Evans
Tachbrook Street Market is the beating heart of Pimlico and so like other local residents, I was pleased last Spring when Tory councillors told us that it would be renovated by the end of the year. I hoped that it would give the area a new lease of life.
Yet we’re now half way through 2010 and the work is still not complete. Stallholders have increasingly expressed concern at inconsistent messages from the Council about the redevelopment – and local residents have told me that they simply don’t understand why the work is taking so long and has seemingly achieved so little. For example, a covered market area would have given traders a real boost.
The Lib Dems would work to make the neighbourhood work better for local businesses – the council needs to communicate better with traders and deliver the great market space that stallholders – and local residents - deserve.
