Archive for April, 2009

Why the market?

Monday, April 27th, 2009

Traders talk to local filmmaker Matt Robinson

What would bringing back the market mean to people who earn their living on Chatsworth Road?

Public meeting: time for a new Chatsworth market?

Thursday, April 23rd, 2009

7.30pm, Thursday, 30th April, Chats Palace – meeting open to all


Traders and residents join the campaign. Photo: Joe Lord

Traders and residents join the campaign. Photo: Joe Lord


It is big but it’s not scary. To get as many people from right across the community involved in the plans for a new weekly street market we’re holding a friendly public meeting on Thursday, 30th April. It’s at Chats Palace Arts Centre, 42-44 Brooksby’s Walk, and the meeting starts at 7.30pm. All comers are very welcome. (more…)

Win £50 with our survey!

Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009

Tell us your views and enter the prize draw.


So the three big questions are: does Clapton actually want a new weekly street market? If so, what kind of market? And would you like fifty quid? (more…)

Chatsworth Road: my part in its downfall

Tuesday, April 21st, 2009

Local high streets are vital, says Ashley Parsons


This is the tale of a street – the high street – and how I fell in love with it again, after nearly killing it dead.


Not deliberately, you understand. But for a while there I was lured away by the exotic attraction of the shiny new grocery cathedrals we came to call (more…)