Owners Give Traders a Month
The Town Council regrets to inform residents that it received official notice on 29th April 2014 that its agreement with the Town Centre owners, which enabled the market to operate in the Town Centre, has been terminated by solicitors acting on behalf of the owners, giving one month’s notice as required by the contract with effect from 1st May 2014.
Effectively, this means there is no longer a site available in the Town Centre that the market can operate on.
Therefore, the Town Council had no option other than to give, in turn, one month’s notice to the market operators, Newton Aycliffe Market Traders’ Co-operative, to terminate the agreement that it has to operate the Tuesday market.
This notice had to be served immediately in order to give a month’s notice to run concurrently with the notice to the Town Council from the Town Centre owners.
The Town Council has previously looked at options in or around the Town Centre to site the market, however only one site was identified adjacent to the Town Centre that may have been viable.
Unfortunately, following enquiries, it has been confirmed that the site identified is not available for this use. Therefore, the last market to be held in the Town Centre will be Tuesday 27th May 2014.
