No water-side market

THOUGH 50 traders were lined up for the new Sunday Pulteney Weir Market by the Avon in Bath, the council has stepped in and forbidden it.

Bath and North Somerset Council officials have told the organisers that they do not have the correct licences so therefore the market cannot take place, Alan Tilbury tells us.

Appropriate permissions

Canal Carrying Company and Riverside Leisure Management that together were told the event could not take place, because the organisers had 'not obtained the appropriate permissions from the council as landowner or licensing authority for street trading'. Yet a successful trial market was held on 26th August that was very well received.

Market Director Alfie Windsor explained that the market project had been encouraged by the council at a meeting with council officers in May, and that the idea of a market on the riverside is part of an the intention by the council to 'promote and improve the riverside's potential for residents and tourists alike'.

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Riverside Leisure Management, which collects mooring fees from boats using the river, and is associated with the Canal Carrying Company—part organisers of the market—have been given notice to quit the Boat House by Pulteney Weir, with the council serving notice on the firm.