Helen welcomes rent freeze at Drayton Indoor Market

North Shropshire MP Helen Morgan has welcomed news from Shropshire Council that rents will be continue to be frozen at Market Drayton Indoor Market until January.

The local authority had previously been planning to lift the rate relief, until intervention from the MP last month on behalf of traders asked them to reconsider. Several stallholders had worried of being put out of business by increases, something that would have signalled a major step backwards for the market which is now again at full capacity.

Traders have now been told their rents will be frozen until January next year, says the MP after visiting them at the weekend.

Market Drayton MP Helen Morgan said, “Market Drayton is a proud trading centre with a heritage going back to the Domesday book.

“Freezing rents at the indoor market had been a great innovation and had led to a noticeable increase in the number of stalls – which is why I and many traders were so frustrated by plans to put them right back up again.

“I am really pleased that Shropshire Council have seen sense on this and extended the rent freeze for traders. It is a difficult economic climate for small businesses and it would have been disastrous to take one step forward only to go right back again.”