The North Lincolnshire Cabinet will meet this week on the 9th June to discuss the adoption of a proposal made in a report by the Service Director of Asset Management and Culture that the proposed redevelopment of a new market for Scunthorpe should be put on hold for at least one year after the current review of Markets being undertaken. The recommendation reads "That should there be no progress with the development of a new custom built Scunthorpe Market within one year of the North Lincolnshire Market report being approved, this panel re-visit this review, with particular focus on enhancing the existing Scunthorpe Market." This basically means no new market for Scunthorpe, yet the same report also puts forward a recommendation for improving the fa�ade of Ashby Market, contains a �20,000 marketing budget and �25,000 worth of funding for feasibility studies! On a more positive note, the council have identified that the majority of stallholders on the market are white, and that more should be done to encourage members from minority communities to open stalls there and subsequently shop on the market. Recommendation 18 reads "That the market management engage with the black and minority ethnic communities as well as the new communities to encourage markets to better reflect North Lincolnshire's growing diverse communities." It would be nice to see the market up to its strength of the 1980's again, I remember many "happy??" hours there, and the choice and value was outstanding, it would be nice to see it re-vitalised again, not with marketing budgets and feasibility reports but with cheaper rents to encourage more stalls!