Leeds, W Yorkshire - Market - art postcard by Andy Cox, c.1980s

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• Picture / Image:  "A city without a maret has no heart - Save Leeds Market!" [this must date to around 1986 as there was controversial plans at that time, see Wikipedia below]
• Publisher: Save Leeds Market / picture by Andy Cox
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Text from the free encyclopedia WIKIPEDIA may appear below to give a little background information (internal links may not  work) :

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Leeds Kirkgate Market (pronounced /ˈkɜːrɡət/) is a market in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England located on Vicar Lane. It is the largest covered market in Europe.[1][2] There are currently 800 stalls which attract over 100,000 visitors a week

Location

The markets are situated with their front facing onto Vicar Lane and the southern face onto Kirkgate. To the east is Leeds City bus station, while to the north is the Victoria Gate development. To the south of the open market is the markets multi-storey car park operated by National Car Parks (NCP). From across Vicar Lane, the markets are connected to Briggate via the Victoria Quarter.

Access

Local and regional buses heading out of the city centre, as well as long-distance National Express coaches, stop at Leeds City bus station, to the rear of the complex. First Leeds buses stop at various points on the bus-box of which Vicar Lane is a part. The Vicar Lane and Markets car park are situated close by. The formerly proposed Leeds Supertram and Leeds Trolleybus schemes included a stop to serve both the markets and the bus station, however neither scheme succeeded in securing central government funding.

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1986 redevelopment proposals

In 1986 a proposal was put forward by Leeds City Council with Dutch developers MAB(UK) and Norwich Union as major investors. The plans involved retaining the 1875 and 1904 Halls, but replacing the rest with a new single market hall, new shops, a new bus station and multi-storey car park. The plans proved unpopular with the local population and were opposed by the Market Traders' Association and Leeds Civic Trust. Despite these misgivings the council granted the scheme planning permission and sought to push on with plans. In order to see the plans through, a compulsory purchase order was required by the council and this was refused by the Secretary of State for the Environment. The plans were formally dropped in 1990, leaving the council again with the dilemma of what to do with the increasingly dilapidated market halls[5]