PETITIONRejectedPetition · petition.parliament.uk
Save smithfield and billingsgate market
London must not make the same mistake as Paris, The City of London Corporation has been itching to move Smithfield’s traders on — just as drovers once herded cattle down the “hollow way” of north London — for some years. It's a historical part of London's culture and must be saved
Last fetched 03 May 2026 · petition.parliament.uk
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Government response threshold (10,000) · 21/10,000
Debate threshold (100,000) · 21/100,000
Background
The Corporation snapped up the former Barking Reach power station site armed with plans to turn it into an integrated modern food market, not just for Smithfield, but for Billingsgate That grandiose scheme is now in tatters, a victim, of the spiralling costs that have bedevilled all major construction projects since the pandemic and the energy crisis.
Billingsgate market has 800 years of tradition. It should be resigned to scrap when nothing is in place to replace it other than land ownership