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To: Westminster City Council

KEEP BERWICK STREET MARKET INDEPENDENT

Stop the privatisation and keep our much loved Berwick Street Market Independent.

Why is this important?

Berwick Street Market has been independent for 300 years yet Westminster City Council has decided to privatise it with barely any consultation - It's all happening behind the scenes - private operators are already in the tender process and traders’ licences have been terminated without warning.

These licences are peoples livelihoods, businesses and relationships, and belong to traders who are part of Soho's history and culture. Berwick Street Market is now the frontline of the relentless cleansing of Soho. @BerW1ckStMarket
Berwick Street Market, Berwick Street, London

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2017-10-13 17:59:06 +0100

Please sign Coach & Horses petition to make developers and big firms compensate small businesses for the loss of trade caused by works. It is obvious to anyone experiencing large scale development that you will lose 30-50% of your trade and that your business may close as a consequence. This should be factored in to the development cost. We are losing businesses across soho because no one is compensating small firms for their losses. The rates mechanism does not work. Time for a change. https://www.change.org/p/westminster-council-for-the-many-not-the-poo

2017-06-26 06:10:54 +0100

#crowdfunding #BerwickStMarket #Soho Independent for 330 years_thank you for helping keep it that way @Spacehive https://www.spacehive.com/berwickstreetmarket?searchText=berwick …

2017-06-16 19:43:03 +0100

Our Mayor backed #crowdfunding program to bring #BerwickStMarket back to health is now live_join us if you can please #Soho https://www.spacehive.com/berwickstreetmarket?searchText=berwick

2017-06-04 16:42:22 +0100

Soho survey extended to 7th June just for you. x https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/AspirationsForSoho

2017-05-27 11:51:31 +0100

Please stop redeveloper’s application and cradle the small businesses of Shepherd’s Bush Market https://www.change.org/p/save-the-shepherds-bush-market-businesses/u/20385086?utm_medium=email&utm_source=77616&utm_campaign=petition_update&sfmc_tk=dk5MGbGpUJAiE8JwpJ3w571GlfeoJ7Ohfs41XVLcG9KoHrIU2UkSzZKN89JE3WXt

2017-05-26 15:46:38 +0100

Last chance for you to say that you'd love Soho to remain a cultural community rippling with small indy businesses and creative people in the Plan for Soho https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/AspirationsForSoho

2017-05-18 11:21:43 +0100

This is a very important Soho Survey, please have a look and express your view so that it is included in the Plan for Soho https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/AspirationsForSoho

2017-04-26 16:07:54 +0100

We need your help (yes, again). The Soho Neighbourhood Forum has established a number of key ‘priority areas’ determined through a public consultation, the 2016 ‘Soho Survey’, in which over 990 responses were gathered. The highest priority identified overall was to protect and promote Soho’s culture and heritage, with issues including protecting Soho’s creative industries, improving Soho’s air quality, developing social housing and ensuring developments reflect Soho’s scale and style of building receiving strong support. Since September 2016 Policy Development Teams have used the 2016 survey results as a foundation for their work and now we would like your help in shaping the plan: tell us what you think. Please complete this survey - you can spend 5 minutes or as long as you want... https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/AspirationsForSoho

2017-04-26 13:26:07 +0100

It was always our ambition for the energy that went into saving Berwick Street Market to make a wider impact. Hope you agree, this will do: Mayor Sadiq Khan recruits team of experts to protect London's 'important' street markets. http://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/mayor-sadiq-khan-recruits-team-of-experts-to-protect-londons-important-street-markets-a3518971.html

2017-04-26 13:19:48 +0100

This is the first permanent licence to be issued on Berwick Street for 10 years_ there are 7 more to follow today https://twitter.com/BerW1ckStMarket/status/857207286443454464

2017-03-30 14:55:13 +0100

Letter to Ed Watson from Cllr Paul Dimoldenberg With the current temporary licences due to run out on 31st March, I insist that you deal with the traders' licence applications without further delay.https://www.change.org/p/edward-watson-keep-berwick-street-market-independent/u/19871282

2017-03-30 14:51:47 +0100

Please email Hick, Rosalind [email protected] and Watson, Ed [email protected] re: BSTS: ‘permanent’ licence application delay - and ask them to issue traders with permanent licences, you may just save the campaigning traders of Berwick Street https://www.dropbox.com/s/rc269k9utaw53bs/WCC%20March%2030th%202017%20permanent%20licence%20delays.pdf?dl=0

2017-03-21 22:25:30 +0000

IT'S OVER! Thank you for your support https://www.change.org/p/edward-watson-keep-berwick-street-market-independent/u/19774250?recruiter=237880&utm_source=share_update&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=share_twitter_responsive via @UKChange

2017-03-21 13:59:36 +0000

It's over. The privatisation has been called off. This is good news for Berwick Street Market and great news for central London markets who will not have to go through the sheer hell of the last year. Thank you so much for your support, it has been an amazing journey.

2017-03-21 07:00:14 +0000

11 days left on Berwick Street Market traders licences and still nothing from Westminster...