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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Jessica Murray Social affairs correspondent

‘It’s like home’: Brixton market traders fight to stop site being sold to big business

Woman and her vegetable shop
Esme runs a fruit and veg shop she set up 22 years ago. Photograph: Jill Mead/The Guardian

Traders at Brixton market say they are in a battle of “people over profit” after submitting a last-minute plan to stop the site being bought by a private equity firm which they fear could price out longstanding independent businesses.

Those behind the Buy Back Brixton campaign said they are through to the second stage of a bidding process, competing against multinational companies to buy Brixton Village and Market Row for community ownership.

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