Preston Market is a special place to hundreds of thousands of people in the northern suburbs, and not only for the fresh food: it is an irreplaceable community space that provides us with a connection between each other and the wider community. But it is under attack from billionaire developers who want to demolish 80% of it, build a car park on top of the remainder, and replace the rest with a smaller shopping mall that looks a lot more like Northland or Boxhill than the thriving open-air market that we know and love.

In April the state government announced it would protect Preston Market with heritage planning controls, following the advice of an expert planning panel which reported that Preston Market is too important to the community to be demolished. In response, the owners of Preston Market are trying to force the government to allow the demolition by threatening to close Preston Market in January 2024, which would mean the end of the traders' businesses, and with them the market.

We need to send a message to the government that they must put the interests of the many before the private profit of a few and save 100% of Preston Market and with it 100% of the traders! Public Acquisition is the best way to ensure that Preston Market is safe from greedy developers, and that it remains the heart of our beautiful community into the future: the state government needs to stand by the community of the northern suburbs and buy Preston Market to ensure its future!

Don’t stand by and let greedy developers trash our community: come and make yourself heard at Hands Around Preston Market!

August 12th at 11am, underneath Preston Railway Station.

Download an A4 event poster here or an A2 poster here to print your own!

To get involved in the Save The Preston Market Action Group send us an email: savetheprestonmarket@gmail.com

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