-
Published on: 03/08/2018 07:23 AMReported by: roving-eye
Southport Market is struggling to survive with two thirds of the spaces empty.
Traders who have left blame high rents for the demise.
Rents for stalls start at £66 per week. The Market is open for 6 days a week.
The refurbished market opened in July 2012 with celebrity chef Simon Rimmer on hand.
Also at the opening were local Councillors who now seem to have no interest in the building.
-
Member Post Likes / Dislikes - 0 Likes, 0 Dislikes
Check Todays Deals on Ebay.co.uk
Check Todays Deals On Amazon.co.uk
Your Comments:
-
High rents from £66 a week?
-
Member Post Likes / Dislikes - 0 Likes, 0 Dislikes
-
High rents, business rates, bid rates, wages, lack of parking for stall holders and a completely inept management attempting to run what once was a flourishing albeit dated market, a recipe for yet another empty building in the making.
-
Member Post Likes / Dislikes - 0 Likes, 0 Dislikes
-
Sefton Council has other priorities....Bootle New Strand.
-
Member Post Likes / Dislikes - 0 Likes, 0 Dislikes
-
Why on earth they allow the open air market on Chapel St I have no idea!
Surely, it should be in Market St, plenty of room for it, and utilising the empty INDOOR stalls as well
-
Member Post Likes / Dislikes - 0 Likes, 0 Dislikes
-
Originally Posted by
salus.populi
High rents from £66 a week?
I was thinking the same thing. If you can't afford £11 a day for rent then you have nothing worth buying.
Welcome to the world of business. Where the idea is you make a profit after all your out goings.
business rates, will be little to nothing. I've not had to pay small business rates for about 9 years. Always been 100% refunded.
-
Member Post Likes / Dislikes - 0 Likes, 0 Dislikes
-
Originally Posted by
salus.populi
High rents from £66 a week?
I would think that £66 is a bribe to get new tenants in. I very much doubt that long established businesses in the Market are benefiting from rents as low as that.
-
Member Post Likes / Dislikes - 0 Likes, 0 Dislikes
-
Originally Posted by
*concerned*
Why on earth they allow the open air market on Chapel St I have no idea!
Surely, it should be in Market St, plenty of room for it, and utilising the empty INDOOR stalls as well
Exactly. These stalls situated where they are seem to me a real slap in the face for those traders in the market hall trying to establish and maintain their businesses. Surely common sense would suggest that making use of the empty indoor stalls albeit on say daily licence arrangements could potentially increase foot fall for the benefit of everybody in the market. Shame Chapel St was ever pedestrianised in the first place. A mammoth blunder.
-
Member Post Likes / Dislikes - 0 Likes, 0 Dislikes
-
Originally Posted by
justbecause
I would think that £66 is a bribe to get new tenants in. I very much doubt that long established businesses in the Market are benefiting from rents as low as that.
So lets hear what they are then. The term "high rents" is regularly bandied about with no actual figures to back it up. The same gripe is trotted out for town centre shops yet the public inquiry into Sainsbury's opening at Kew revealed that Southport town centre shop rents had been falling year on year and were half what they were a decade earlier.
-
Member Post Likes / Dislikes - 0 Likes, 0 Dislikes
-
Originally Posted by
salus.populi
High rents from £66 a week?
The rents were based on tenders for many years, ie the highest bid got the stall. That started the rot which now seems to have reached the point we have now where seemingly nothing can save it as it is in the wrong location, it is too small and it is run by Sefton Council which has proven countless times previously to be 100% incompetent in every business deal it has ever entered into.
-
Member Post Likes / Dislikes - 0 Likes, 0 Dislikes
-
Originally Posted by
MargeSimpson
The rents were based on tenders for many years, ie the highest bid got the stall. That started the rot which now seems to have reached the point we have now where seemingly nothing can save it as it is in the wrong location, it is too small and it is run by Sefton Council which has proven countless times previously to be 100% incompetent in every business deal it has ever entered into.
Looks tidy enough, It's the stall holders that have to bring he customers in. How can that be blamed on the council.
-
Member Post Likes / Dislikes - 0 Likes, 0 Dislikes
-
I was uder the impresson that te market was run by a management company, the refurb was handled by consultants.
-
Member Post Likes / Dislikes - 0 Likes, 0 Dislikes
-
I went to Chorley on Tuesday and both the indoor & outdoor markets were really busy.
-
Member Post Likes / Dislikes - 0 Likes, 0 Dislikes
-
Originally Posted by
MargeSimpson
The rents were based on tenders for many years, ie the highest bid got the stall.
So the traders bid high and then complain about their own high bids? No wonder their businesses fail.
-
Member Post Likes / Dislikes - 0 Likes, 0 Dislikes
-
the council want it to fall!!!
-
Member Post Likes / Dislikes - 0 Likes, 0 Dislikes