Covent Garden Market Authority

According to the Covent Garden Market Authority people were complaining about congestion.

Covent garden market authority. In partnership with Vinci St Modwen CGMA is rebuilding the iconic New Covent Garden Market NCGM on its existing site and developing a vibrant new Food Quarter for London. April 2019 to March 2020. The market is run by a statutory corporation the Covent Garden Market Authority CGMA which reports to the Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs DEFRA.

Covent Garden Market Authority CGMA respects your privacy and is committed to protecting your personal data. If visiting the market you are encouraged to wear a face mask or covering in crowded or enclosed spaces maintain a safe social distance particularly indoors and wash or sanitise your hands before entering. Set up in 1961 the CGMA was charged with modernising and overseeing the administration of the vegetable market then located at Covent Garden in central London which was considered strategically important as a wholesale.

A statutory body set up by Acts of Parliament in 1961 we own and are responsible for the running of the market. Covent Garden Market Authority annual report and accounts. Until well after World War 1 the Market was the business and cultural heart of the City.

In 1955 when the advent of the automobile began to take its toll on the time-honored tradition of visiting the Market nine business s formed the Covent Garden Market Building Inc. These three sites are being consolidated onto a single 37 acre site releasing up 20 acres of land for development. In 1904 the Jubilee Hall was built and in 1918 the Duke of Bedford sold the market and its trading rights to a property company.

We are accountable to the Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs Defra but dont receive any direct government. Income from tenants increased from 47m to 50m relecting the welcome impact of the Food Exchange building becoming almost fully let towards the end of the inancial. Covent Garden Market Authority CGMA is the team that looks after and manages New Covent Garden Market Londons original and finest fresh fruit vegetable and flower wholesale market.

Covent Garden Market Authority CGMA is the team that looks after and manages New Covent Garden Market. Covent Garden Market Authority CGMA has announced that Alasdair Thomas has been appointed as General Counsel with immediate effect. In 1958 to replace the old Market building which contained four levels of.