{"id":46309,"date":"2025-09-27T07:36:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T07:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/46309\/"},"modified":"2025-09-27T07:36:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T07:36:07","slug":"lincolns-cornhill-market-not-where-we-want-it-to-be-admits-council","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/46309\/","title":{"rendered":"Lincoln&#8217;s Cornhill Market &#8216;not where we want it to be&#8217;, admits council"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Liberal Democrats councillor James Brown said at a meeting on Tuesday: &#8220;For that amount, we could have put on two Christmas markets.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But Labour councillor Joshua Wells, the authority&#8217;s portfolio holder for inclusive economic growth, defended the market&#8217;s performance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said: &#8220;We have lost traders for a variety of reasons. Some have moved to independent premises or moved online.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Since the business case was first put in, there have been economic shocks and the ongoing effect of the pandemic which has changed shopping habits.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wells highlighted the Teenage Market, the Festival of History and youth pop-up The Zone as efforts to bring people into the area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;There is not a simple fix. Markets up and down the country are facing similar or worse situations,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Five retail stores and one food venue have applied for space at the market, councillors were told.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Liberal Democrats councillor James Brown said at a meeting on Tuesday: &#8220;For that amount, we could have put&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":46310,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[72,61,60,123],"class_list":["post-46309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-markets","tag-business","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-markets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46309\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}