LIVERPOOL’S Heritage Market is to be relaunched.

Mar 28 2008 by Clare Hickie, Liverpool Daily Post

LIVERPOOL’S Heritage Market is to be relaunched.

The future of the market at Stanley Dock was plunged into doubt last year after a row about counterfeit goods resulted in plummeting visitor numbers.

About 180 stallholders signed a petition calling for council support in their bid to become part of a long-term plan to refurbish Stanley Dock.

The heritage market briefly closed last summer when it emerged owner Kitgrove was being threatened with prosecution by the council if it did not tackle counterfeiting.

But operator NW1 went to court and won an injunction to keep the market open until the end of its lease in 2009.

The relaunch will be marked with a family fun day on May 4.

A spokesman for Liverpool city council said: “We have been working and will continue to work closely with the organisers of the market to ensure that counterfeit goods are not sold, as we would with any other market.”