'We were left with no choice but to close' - Trader's anger at Wolverhampton Market muddle

Angry owners are blaming Wolverhampton council, claiming the local authority ‘messed them about’ over a move to a planned new site.

The Snack Bar, which has been a familiar sight since 1997, was once housed inside the former market building where it had a ‘busy and bustling’ trade.

It currently operates from a cabin in School Street, and owners had hoped it would feature in the council’s plans for its new market on the Southside of the city.

However, Carol Horne, who runs the eatery, says she has been ‘messed about’ by the local authority so much she has decided to shut up shop for the last time this weekend.

Carol, aged 61 of Oxley, said: “It’s disgusting how we’ve been treated. When we moved out here, trade dropped so much even though we’re the only hot food retailer here in these cabins.

“Then the council said it would house us in the new market and we would have a bigger premises with seating like we did before. So we’ve hung on and hung on.

“But then this summer we were told that the council didn’t have the money to rehouse us in its new development, so we’ve been left with no choice but to close.”