A MARKET will move to a temporary home this autumn while a £3m newbuild project gets underway.
Brighouse's open market will move to a new home so work can begin on the rebuild of its permanent canalside home.
It's part of the town's £19.1 million Town Deal transformation.
As part of the UK Government-funded deal, Calderdale Council is working with the Brighouse Town Deal Board to deliver a new permanent market on the existing canalside site, which will have around 20 fixed stalls, each with water, drainage, and power.
Planning permission for the permanent home was granted in March and, following a competitive tendering process, Triton Construction was appointed as the contractor to work on the market rebuild.
The temporary market will be in a section of Daisy Street car park, across Anchor Bridge from the existing site.
Traders will move to the Daisy Street site in late September and the canalside site will close for around 12 months for the work to be undertaken.
The Daisy Street site will have permanent storage for stallholders, pop-up stalls, and access to electricity, water, and waste to ensure the food, drinks, crafts, and other items on sale each Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday can continue to trade without disruption.
Colin Gordon, member of the Brighouse Town Deal Board and owner of Colin’s Cafe on Brighouse Market, said hard work had been done to ensure market traders can continue to operate during the rebuild.
“It is great to now be making final preparations for the move to our temporary Daisy Street home.
“It is just two minutes’ walk from the existing market and I hope visitors and shoppers to Brighouse will cross Anchor Bridge and check us out when we make the move,” he said.
Calderdale Council’s Cabinet member for Resources, Coun Silvia Dacre (Lab, Todmorden), said improvements have been carefully planned to better support existing stallholders and encourage new traders.
“To ensure that trading can continue whilst these upgrades take place, we’ve identified a location for a temporary home for the market, just across the road from the market’s current location using part of Daisy Street car park.
“The market may be temporary, but it will have all the facilities to enable the market traders to continue to sell their food, drink and other great items,” she said.
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