IN YOUR Shopping in York supplement of April 25, it stated that York has a excellent farmers’ market in Parliament Street on the last Friday each month.

This this should read “used to have”. Shambles is now the home of the farmers’ market, to the disgust of the few remaining stallholders (14 as opposed to 40 in Parliament Street).

If this decision is not reversed, there will be no farmers’ market in York in three months time as stallholders’ takings have fallen 30 per cent to 60 per cent since being moved from public view.

We are told selling produce from local farmers cannot be allowed in Parliament Street in future, but we understand that it will be okay for stallholders from any part of Britain to come and sell their produce there at the St Nicholas fair.

It would seem City of York Council’s love of highly paid consultants at ratepayers’ expense comes before any common-sense approach to local and tourist needs.

John Piercy, Huby, York (never missed one York farmers’ market in 15 years).