The City of London Corporation agreed last November to pull out of running Smithfield and Billingsgate markets, with a ...

the City of London Corporation, had planned to relocate Smithfield and Canary Wharf’s Billingsgate fish market to the east-end suburb, but on Tuesday the body’s Court of Common Council voted ...

Two iconic markets in central London with ... meat and fish markets. The vote pours cold water on plans to relocate the markets to a £1b ($1.3b) development in Dagenham, East London.

In total, the two markets account for around nine per cent of the South East and London's meat and fish consumption. The study found that there was a general acceptance that the current market ...