A group of Canterbury shops and businesses are expected to make an angry protest tonight to plans to relocate the city centre market.

The council wants to move it from St George's Street to Iron Bar Lane and Square so it can refurbish the main precinct.

But as well as angering the traders themselves who want to stay where they are, the scheme has upset businesses and some residents in the proposed new location.

Thirteen of them have written letters of objection to the development control committee which meets at the Guildhall at 6.30pm to consider the planning application.

They say it will restrict rear access to their shops, hampering deliveries, and disturb residents in the early morning when the stalls are being set up.