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FOI - Billingsgate and Smithfield markets [Dec 2025]

Key information

Request reference number: MGLA311025-7589

Date of response:

Summary of request

I'm submitting a Freedom of Information request for information on the potential future use of the Royal Albert Dock in Newham.

Can you please confirm if you have received communications from traders at Billingsgate and Smithfield markets and/or the City of London Corporation regarding relocating the markets to Royal Albert Dock?

If so, can you please provide such communications?

If not, can you please confirm if you have received communications from traders at Billingsgate and Smithfield markets and/or the City of London Corporation regarding relocating the markets to any other GLA-owned land? 

If so, can you please confirm where?

Our response

Please find attached the information that the GLA holds within the scope of your request. 

Please note that some names of members of staff are exempt from disclosure under s.40
(Personal information) of the Freedom of Information Act. This information could potentially
identify specific employees and as such constitutes as personal data which is defined by Article 4(1) of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) to mean any information relating to an identified or identifiable living individual. It is considered that disclosure of this information would contravene the first data protection principle under Article 5(1) of GDPR which states that Personal data must be processed lawfully, fairly and in a transparent manner in relation to the data subject.
 

 

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