Chelford Market closes its doors from next month

Chelford Market is to close from next month following the decision to sell the site to a development company.

The last sale will take place on 30 March, with the loss of a number of jobs, report auctioneers Wright Marshall.

Chelford Market, Cheshire, has been in operation since 1911 and is now one of the UK’s busiest auction centres, employing nearly 50 people.

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In the short term, the existing Chelford business will be relocated to the firm’s other auction centre at Beeston Castle, where plans are currently being put into place to accommodate the range of sales currently operated. Talks are continuing over a possible new location.

The directors of Wright Marshall, say this is a “bitter disappoint”, as they have been striving for many years to provide a suitable site for relocation.  

A spokesperson for the market said: “A planning consent for a new market at Middlewich was obtained in March 2014, in conjunction with developers Pochin, but planners deleted sufficient of the original application to render the permission granted unviable.”