Popular Sunday Farm Gate Market on the march to Bathurst St

HOBART'S popular Sunday Farm Gate Market has cleared the final hurdle for its move to Bathurst St early next year.

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HOBART'S popular Sunday Farm Gate Market has cleared the final hurdle for its move to Bathurst St early next year.

Market owner Madi Seeber-Peattie is thrilled about its new on-street location, which has space for 90 stalls.

She believes moving one block closer to the city benefits everyone: the market, stallholders, their customers and the social and economic life of Hobart generally.

"We've had 100 per cent support from local retail and hospitality business owners," Ms Seeber-Peattie said.

"The main question that kept coming up was 'when do you move?"'.

Al Derham, owner of the New Sydney Hotel, said he would open the pub for breakfast on Sundays when the market sets up outside the front door.

Ms Seeber-Peattie said cafes and other businesses in Brisbane St, Mathers Lane and Criterion St also were likely to seize the opportunity.

Management at one nearby hotel anticipated some tourists would stay an extra night to take in both Salamanca Market on Saturdays and the Sunday market.

Earlier this month the Hobart City Council unanimously approved the market's move to Bathurst St and closing the road to traffic between Murray St and Elizabeth St on Sundays from 9am to 1pm.

With the appeal period closed, it meant the move was on.

"There's not many capital city councils that would close an arterial road in their city to host a market every Sunday," Ms Seeber-Peattie said.

"This decision reflects the substantial value the market provides to not only the community of Hobart but the state in terms of food tourism."

She hoped to have the market open in Bathurst St some time around Easter.

The Farm Gate Market was set up four years ago to sell local products and has grown to attract about 3500 customers every week.

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