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what’s going on at Kirkgate Market? (0)

6/13/09 •

Despite being heralded as the cities ‘crown jewel’, Kirkgate Market is in a continual state of decline.

It has recently been played out in the press that the council are grooming the site for gentrification, purposely running down the market in order to facilitate and rationalise redevelopment.

Yet rather than act as a shining light that seeks [...]