Nottingham: Victoria Centre Market decision delay branded a farce

Nick Clark of Cobblers and Keys is angry with the city council's treatment of stallholdersThe long wait for a final decision on the future of a market has been called "a farce" after a council missed a deadline to make a decision.in a bid to save money.The impasse wasVictoria Centre Market opened in the shopping centre in 1972 and was once home to more than 200 stalls, but now has just 31 traders.

The council said it had been running the market at a loss since 2014 and subsidised it at a cost of more than £1.5m.it was aiming to resolve the situation by "the end of May", but on Thursday a spokesman said this would not happen until at least the end of June.Nick Clark, of Cobblers and Keys, said the situation was having an adverse impact on traders as well as their businesses."It is terrible how they have treated us. It is a farce.

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