{"id":105256,"date":"2025-08-31T17:08:01","date_gmt":"2025-08-31T17:08:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/105256\/"},"modified":"2025-08-31T17:08:01","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T17:08:01","slug":"popular-artisan-market-in-rochester-to-close-after-nine-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/105256\/","title":{"rendered":"Popular artisan market in Rochester to close after nine years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The organiser of a popular artisan open market in Kent says it is &#8220;not viable&#8221; to continue running the event due to a potential business tax bill that could be imposed on them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Rochester City Centre Forum runs Rochester City Artisan Market, which has operated every second Saturday of the month for the past nine years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Clare Tierney, chairperson of the forum, says it is &#8220;devastating&#8221; that the market&#8217;s last day would be Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Councillor Harinder Mahil, Medway Council&#8217;s portfolio holder for economic and social regeneration and inward investment, said it was &#8220;sad news&#8221; the market would no longer run. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The organiser of a popular artisan open market in Kent says it is &#8220;not viable&#8221; to continue running&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":105257,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[84,467,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-105256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-markets","tag-business","tag-markets","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105256\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}