Who was the genius who decided that making Market Street and Griffin Street pedestrian zones was “a good thing”?

Did the person or persons responsible consider the effect on people like myself, who like to be able to do a little shopping in the market as part of my own little attempt to shop locally, and need to be able to park as near to the market as possible due to limited mobility? Why could there not be facilities for parking on one side of each of these two narrow streets, maybe disabled parking, and total restrictions on the other side of them, in order to facilitate the free flow of traffic? Or is it yet another cunning plan to kill off the market under the guise of improvements?

Sally Wallis Courtybella Gardens Newport