Three of Britain’s biggest wholesale food markets are set to move to a single riverside site in Dagenham.
Billingsgate, Smithfield and New Spitalfields markets will merge after the City of London Corporation received approval from Barking and Dagenham’s planning committee to relocate them to a new site, formerly occupied by Barking power station in east London.
The corporation will redevelop the present sites. Smithfield, in Farringdon, could become a cultural centre alongside a new Museum of London. Billingsgate fish market in Canary Wharf has the potential for 1,500 new homes, while New Spitalfields, the wholesale fruit and vegetable market in Leyton, could host about 1,200 homes.
