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Article: Traders' protest gathers momentum.
- Article from:
- Driffield Times (Driffield, England)
- Article date:
- September 1, 2006
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SHOPKEEPERS along Driffield's thriving main street are being urged to add their voices to the the growing protest against plans to redevelop the former cattle market and surrounding area.
The Driffield Cattle Market Company Ltd - which owns much of the site - wants to build a huge retail and residential scheme, with a supermarket 12 shops and dozens of new homes.
But town centre traders are concerned that the project has sounded the death-knell for the current main street as it would divert shoppers away from their businesses to a new location off Eastgate South.
Now business owners are being urged to make their views known as part of a ...