Plans made to keep long-standing market stalls open

Plans have been submitted to keep two long-standing market stalls running at a popular site in a Surrey town centre.

Guildford Borough Council has applied to allow the stalls at Tunsgate Arch to continue trading for another five years.

The Grade II listed building was built for selling corn in the 1800s and has been used to site the market stalls since 1991.

In the application, planning officers said that the stalls would not harm the "significance of these designated heritage assets".

The council also noted that the stalls were small and did not take away from the overall surroundings and historic architecture.

"Given that the stalls are an established feature within the street scape, their continued siting would not materially harm the character of the existing site or the wider street scene," the authority said.

Councillors are to discuss the application at a planning committee meeting on 24 June, according to the Local Democracy Reporting Service.

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