What is Street Trading?
Street Trading is defined as: The selling or offering for sale of any article in the street. This includes food for example burgers, kebabs, doughnuts chips and other things such as household items, flowers or Christmas Trees.
All streets in the Borough of Basingstoke and Deane are designated as Consent Streets. This means that any person who wishes to sell items from a trailer or stall in a street must first obtain a Street Trading Consent from Basingstoke & Deane Borough Council.
A street is defined in law as any road, footway, beach or other area (private or public) provided the public have access without payment and the area has been designated as a consent street.
Food traders must also be registered with their local Environmental Health Department.
If you wish to trade on an area of private land that does not fall within the above definition, please speak to the licensing team first as a Street Trading Consent may still be required.
Street Traders selling hot food after 11pm at night will also need a licence under the Licensing Act 2003 to authorise the sale of Late Night Refreshment.
Exemptions
You do not need a Street Trading Consent if you are:
- Trading as a Pedlar under licence issued by a Police Authority
- A market trader operating at a licensed market venue
- A news vendor selling only newspapers and periodicals
