Preferred site for Smithfield and Billingsgate markets confirmed

Smithfield and Billingsgate will move to Albert Island in 2028

The controversial relocation of the centuries-old Smithfield and Billingsgate markets is one step closer to completion, after traders and local authorities earmarked a new site in east London’s Royal Docks for both markets to set up together.

The City of London Corporation, Greater London Authority (GLA) and representatives for the iconic markets’ traders identified a plot in Albert Island, a site on the Royal Docks’ eastern edge, as their preferred destination for the major move.

Last year, the future of the Smithfield wholesale meat market was plunged into uncertainty 900 years after it was first established , after City officials voted for it to close down in order to build the London Museum. Officials had decided to pl