Until four years ago, Woolwich’s old covered market was threatened with the bulldozer. Now it’s home to a psychedelic art experience which is free for all to visit for the next 10 weeks. NIKKI SPENCER took a trip and found out more. A new, free immersive art experience which explores the limitless potential of the […]
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Street Feast: Firm behind Woolwich’s Public and Lewisham’s Model Market collapses
The company behind Lewisham’s Model Market and the failed Public in Woolwich’s old covered market has gone out of business – with its founder complaining of being “completely screwed over”. Street Feast ran a number of food courts across London, including Model Market, which closed its gates for the last time only last month. It […]
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Woolwich Exchange: ‘Affordable’ housing drops in new covered market redevelopment
Updated story: New proposals to redevelop the area around Woolwich Public Market have been submitted to Greenwich Council – with a sharp drop in the number of “affordable” homes in the scheme to help pay for the retention of the historic market. Developer St Modwen and housing association Notting Hill Genesis plan to build 801 […]
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Woolwich covered market to stay as Spray Street developers review plans
The developers behind controversial plans to develop a chunk of Woolwich town centre have confirmed they will be keeping the old covered market when they submit new proposals for the area. St Modwen and the housing association Notting Hill Genesis had planned to demolish the former Woolwich Public Market in their plans to build 742 […]
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Woolwich Street Feast shuts after botched electrical work and Crossrail delay
Street food operator Street Feast will not be reopening in Woolwich Public Market in 2019 because of the electrical work carried out incorrectly in the Grade II-listed building and the ongoing delay to Crossrail. The firm, which has run Lewisham’s Model Market as a summer street food arena since 2015, had planned to run the […]
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Spray Street demolitions: Woolwich Public Market gets Grade II listed status
Controversial plans to knock down and redevelop Woolwich’s historic covered market have hit a setback after Historic England gave the 1930s structure a Grade II listing. A Greenwich Council-backed scheme seeks to demolish the 1936 Public Market and surrounding buildings – including scores of businesses run by and for black and ethnic minority communities – […]
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Street Feast lands licence for ‘wonderful’ Woolwich Public Market transformation
Plans for a street food market in the old covered market in Woolwich town centre were given the go-ahead by Greenwich councillors on Tuesday night – with operator Street Feast planning to open at the start of March. The firm had threatened to pull out after Greenwich Council’s own officers and the Metropolitan Police objected […]
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Can you help transform Woolwich’s Covered Market? Greenwich Council is offering the lease
Greenwich Council is looking for an operator to transform Woolwich Covered Market, which closed down earlier this year after decades of decline. The site is slated for long-term redevelopment as part of the council’s Spray Street Masterplan, with 600 new homes, shops, restaurants and a cinema. But the council is now offering the market on […]
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