Shropshire Council introduced a rent incentive to encourage new stallholders - but now its going up.
Traders at an indoor market said their businesses were being put at risk by rent rises.
Jim Smith, who has a stall selling brownies and cakes, said he joined the market because of the "sensible" rent but said stallholders understand the council is proposing to raise it to its original level, minus a 25% discount - a rate of £32.Sally MacClean-Butler has been operating the Yummy Box from the market for two months."A little bit of an increase I can understand but we need more footfall in here to keep the costs low, so we can afford it," she said.
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