Decision to Be Made on High Road Cheese Market

Organisers now only want to hold the event once a month

Chiswick Flower Market crowds. Picture: Rupa Huq

Hounslow’s licensing committee will be making a decision later this month on whether to allow a ‘Cheese and Provisions’ on Chiswick High Road.

The event would take place in front of the Police Station nearly every third Sunday. Originally the applicant had wanted to hold two markets a month but they have revised their submission for only one.

The bid has divided opinion among local councillors with Cllr Jo Biddolph lodging an objection on the grounds of the unfair competition she feels it would provide to local shops and public health concerns. On the other hand, two local councillors support the application. Cllr John Todd has written to the Licensing Panel urging it be approved saying that he has heard positive comments from local traders about the impact that street markets have on their turnover.

The application for the cheese market has been made on behalf of Cookbook Kitchen CIC a recently formed community interest company based in Prebend Gardens. The market would run from 9.30am to 3pm on the south side of Chiswick High Road from the corner of Devonshire Road to the front of Chiswick Police Station.

It plans to sell cheese, meats, vegetables, deli items, bread, cakes, pastries and cookbooks. There would be a maximum of 23 stalls under current Covid-19 required social distancing rules. This would increase to 29 when restrictions are lifted.

If approved the first market would take place on 21 February and the following five months. The Licensing Panel is due to meet on 20 January.

The Chiswick Flower market has been run in the same space three times. The next one is planned on 7 March.

The first Antiques market was due to take place on 13 December but was cancelled due to last minute issues with paperwork relating to Covid-19 precautions. It is classed as a non-essential market under the rules of the latest lockdown so is not set to proceed until these restrictions are lifted.

The week before the deciding about the cheese market, the Licensing Panel is due to make a decision on an application to set up a German Sausage stall in front of Barclays Bank. This would operate from 9am - 6pm every day. Twenty objections to the application have been received including from the bank's manager and the William Hogarth Trust which raised funds to have the statue of Hogarth installed near the proposed site.

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January 8, 2021