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Portobello Road
Portobello Road is home to one of the world's most famous antiques markets
Protests against more Portobello redevelopment
22 April 2015A charity aiming to redevelop the vintage market end of London’s Portobello Road has been forced to defend its plans in the face of protests against further gentrification of the area.
Asking Portobello dealer to prove age of ivory carving is “a bridge too far” says judge
25 November 2014A Portobello Road dealer, charged with the sale of an ivory carving police believed had contravened CITES rules, has won her case after a judge said it was up to the Crown to prove its age.
Portobello joins the silent greats of the silver screen
03 March 2014It’s famously the backdrop to Richard Curtis’s film ‘Notting Hill’, starring Hugh Grant and Julia Roberts as well as the setting for many a TV drama over the years. Now it’s time for Portobello to take the starring role in a new film whose premiere takes place in Soho on March 14.
Police cover in Portobello to be discussed this week
16 July 2012Portobello Road antiques dealers have a fresh chance to air their views about police cover in the area now that a public meeting has been rearranged.
Police urged to treat Portobello as a ‘priority’
19 June 2012Pressure for better police cover is starting to pay off for Portobello antiques dealers – but they say there is still much to be done. The traders have been incensed by cuts that left just four officers to patrol the area in pairs on Saturdays despite a recent rise in robberies, and demanded action on extra patrols.
Portobello dealers feel abandoned over policing
19 June 2012COMMENT: More than 60,000 visitors on a summer Saturday, one of the most popular tourist spots in the UK, a name so recognised internationally that the local council wants to brand a Crossrail station after it... there are plenty of reasons to protect Portobello‘s antiques trade.
Portobello in plea for more protection
06 June 2012An alarming rise in violent robberies on antiques dealers in Portobello Road has spurred them into action to call for better police cover, CCTV cameras and even private security guards.
End of an era for another Portobello antiques market
14 May 2012It’s closing time for another antiques market in the Portobello Road area where dealers increasingly fear for the future of their trade.
Campaigners lose appeal over Admiral Vernon
10 April 2012Seven-day trading in the basement at the Admiral Vernon Arcade has been given the green light despite fears it might sound the death knell for antiques in Portobello.
New hope in the Portobello planning battle
31 October 2011Planning issues affecting the future of antique trading in Portobello came to a head last week as councillors and their own planning officers fell out at a public meeting in front of dozens of campaigners.
Landlords lodge appeal over Admiral Vernon
11 July 2011Traders and residents of Portobello are rallying support to fight an appeal to allow seven-day trading at the Admiral Vernon Arcade.
Referendum bid raises stakes in battle for Portobello
06 June 2011Supporters of the Save The Portobello Market Campaign called for a referendum on a directly elected mayor for Kensington and Chelsea.
Good Fairy closes as administrators take over
23 May 2011Just as traders in Portobello were celebrating victory in the Admiral Vernon dispute, they heard that the Good Fairy arcade across the road had been closed as the freeholders, Carmac Portobello Ltd, had gone into administration.
New bid to gag Portobello campaigners
16 May 2011STALLHOLDERS throughout Portobello’s arcades planned to don ‘Marion’ masks last Saturday in a mass protest over the latest turn of events in the market.
Planning victory for dealers at Portobello Road
26 April 2011DEALERS at Portobello Road were celebrating a dramatic victory last week after the council rejected a planning application which campaigners said would have been “devastating” for the antiques market.
Seven-day trading bid delivers new threat to Portobello Road
28 February 2011ANOTHER threat to the antiques trade on Portobello Road has been dealt with an application to open up the basement of the Admiral Vernon Arcade to seven-day trading.
What has happened to the council’s vision for Portobello?
19 July 2010WHEN the Commission for Retail Preservation was set up by Kensington and Chelsea Council in 2006, the borough’s mayor at the time, Tim Ahern, was quoted in an official release, as follows:
Concern grows over council’s vision for Portobello as another market is lost to developers
12 July 2010THE antiques trade in Portobello Road has suffered another blow, with the demise of The Good Fairy market now confirmed. Added to what has gone before, it calls into question Kensington and Chelsea Council’s entire vision for the borough as set out in its Core Strategy, currently being reviewed by the Planning Inspectorate, which talks time and again about how Portobello should be protected as a Special District Centre.
Portobello planning meeting set for July 6
02 July 2010TRADERS and campaigners at Portobello Road are urging fellow dealers and members of the public to attend the planning meeting regarding the redevelopment of The Good Fairy Market taking place at Kensington & Chelsea Town Hall on Tuesday, July 6.
Owner gives notice to quit another Portobello arcade
21 June 2010DEALERS at another antiques arcade in Portobello Road are having to vacate the centre after being given notice to quit.