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Big Covent Garden Plans
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'THE Covent Garden Market area I originally occupied three acres, but now it has spread in unsuitable premises to 38 acres, with street activities covering 99 acres and occupying some 10 miles of kerbside. The 1,500 or more vehicles using the market daily are often kept waiting many hours before they can be off-loaded or loaded, with a result that there is a considerable wastage of perishable goods.
Several 'proposals have been made to reorganize the market on its present site, but Mr. Charles Glover, of C. W. Glover and Partners, consulting engineers and architects, has announced a scheme to transfer the entire market to a new site north of the main rail terminus at King's Cross.
By this means road, rail, water and air transportation would be available at one centre and the new building would permit the easiest and quickest possible transfer of goods from bulk supply to store, display and retail dispatch.
The approximate handling capacity of the present market is at the rate of 500 tons per hour, but in the proposed new, market this capacity would be 5,000 tons per hour. Moreover, for every vehicle using the market there would be a reserved stand against the loading platform with the result that the whole of the day's dispatches could be completed by 8 a.m.
Road transport vehicles would be accommodated off the present road system and be clear of the area before the peak hours of traffic on the London roads.