Big change at Nuneaton as operator plans
to make traders erect own stalls

Instead of having staff putting up and taking down stalls, traders will be asked to provide their own and to do it themselves. Concerns had previously been raised about this by Bev Tooby, who runs a sweet stall with her husband Stu, who asked the council to consider changing its plan.
She revealed that some traders may be forced to leave if they had to put up their own stalls. Coun Kris Wilson raised concerns about the impact of the operational change at a full council meeting.
He asked cabinet member, Coun Nicola King if the council could help those who cannot put up theirown stalls by providing a service. He said they needed to keep the 'long standing' traders on the market.
Coun Wilson said: "I would like some reassurance that when this new system comes in, which is right the move to make given the operational challenges we face, that we grant what I term 'grandfather rights' to some of the more long established traders in the market, for those that can't actually or physically set up these stalls themselves.
"When I had the conversations with them (the stallholders), as leader, was that they would pay extra, which is still less than what they pay now to have an erected stall for them as long as it was pre-booked.