A particular assembly is being organised to attempt to discover a decision to the Dumfries city centre markets row.
There's a rivalry between two occasion operators and Dumfries and Galloway Council had been hoping they might put their variations apart and work collectively for the good thing about the city.
The matter was as a result of be mentioned at Wednesday’s assembly of Nithsdale Space Committee however no report was made accessible.
It was additionally anticipated that the subject could be on the agenda on the full council assembly on the finish of the month. Nonetheless, that's now not taking place.
Nithsdale Space Committee chairman Jim Dempster stated: “Though there's a advice that it goes to the complete council on March 31, the provost and I've determined that we'll have a particular assembly to debate this explicit agenda merchandise at a date to be set earlier than the following election on Could 5.
“That’s on the premise that this needs to be a neighborhood determination, a neighborhood decision-making course of. I imagine that within the earlier report there was a call to be taken by us in March.
“Subsequently we intend to convene a particular assembly.
“That’s a call taken by the provost, vice chair, and myself.”
The merchants’ rivalry was created in 2020 when Dumfries and Galloway Council gave the go-ahead to impartial crafters’ co-operative The Guild to stage a market competition each second Saturday of the month for many of the yr.
They claimed their stallholders could be deprived by not being allowed to commerce when the choice market was in operation – and each teams have been at loggerheads since.