‘Our iconic market has been here years – now landlords are trying to shut it down’

Asli Uygur in her clothes shop in the Ridley Road Shopping Centre (Picture: Justin Griffiths-Williams)

Worn-out traders at a ‘lifeline’ market for east London say they are being ‘punished back into poverty’ as developers hand them yet another eviction notice.

Their landlords Larochette – an off-shore company – bought the building in 2016, and as all London sales go, applied to Hackney council to turn the building into luxury flats two years later.

Although the council own the outdoor part of Ridley Road Market...