Market set to reopen after cockroach issue cleared
Sheffield Moor Market is due to reopen on Monday following a two-week closure caused by a cockroach infestation. Sheffield City Council said an extensive programme of treatment, deep cleaning and monitoring had been carried out, with no pest activity recorded for two consecutive days, allowing environmental health officers and specialist pest control contractors to declare the market safe for the public.
The source of the outbreak has not been disclosed, though the council previously suggested that recent extreme and sustained hot weather had created conditions favourable to pests. The purpose-built market, which opened in 2013, houses more than 90 independent traders, some of whom had told the BBC they lost business during the uncertain closure. Mark Rusling, the Labour councillor who chairs the council's environmental services and regulation policy committee, said monitoring and enhanced prevention measures would remain in place, and praised traders for working to prepare their units for reopening.
- Sheffield Moor Market reopens Monday after two-week cockroach closure.
- No pest activity recorded for two consecutive days.
- More than 90 independent traders affected; monitoring to continue.