PROJECT 04
PROPOSAL:
COVERED MARKET; RIDLEY ROAD E8
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The full renovation of Ridley Road’s Covered Market, into a continually sustainable, regenerated Covered Market square. It will continue to be made up of retail spaces, but regenerated with additional leisure and family- child dedicated- spaces, in order to provide a high quality community social experience, at the St Mark’s Rise end of the infamous Hackney Based market.
Fundraising Target For Regeneration project: TBC
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Proposal Date:
2020-2023
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Proposal Status: TBC
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Local Authority:
London Borough of Hackney.
The Wider proposal is for The Covered Market to be regenerated, doing so with the continued use of re-purposed cargo containers, the hope was for it to be
regenerated in line/parallel with the regeneration of Ridley Road market (which has been made
possible by Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan’s grant of £770,000 to the market, which was then
matched by the Town Hall, totalling £1.5 Million pound to spend on the regeneration of Ridley Road
Market).
Images taken in a 2019 survey, the current condition of The Covered Market remains like this as of April 2023.
1. View Point Position: Ridley Road Market Entrance. Ground floor courtyard & 1st floor (new level), gallery made of 3 floors.
2. Viewpoint position: New level of first floor, housing food options and alfresco dining.
3. Viewpoint position: Courtyard facing out onto TFC Supermarket, additional socialising space & mini kids playground, and back entrance to new kiosks which will face onto Ridley Road Market.
4. Viewpoint position: Across the market width, looking onto the covered market from Ridley Road.
As part of the regeneration of The Covered Market, we are initiating that a space
within The Covered Market will be purpose built and used for an activity that will
promote community cohesion, respect for our neighbour and act as a cultural
exchange where anyone can go to learn about, understand the experiences of, and
come together with others.