Buckinghamshire Council Street Trading Policy consultation

Street trading is selling or offering items for sale in an area freely accessible to the public. For example, any road or footway. 

Consents may be issued for up to 12 months and renewed each year.  

We are proposing to designate all streets in Buckinghamshire as ‘consent’ streets and so traders will need to obtain consent to trade, unless exempt by law or local dispensation. 

Activities not affected by street trading regulations: 

• pedlar certificate holders (issued by the police) 
• trading in an established market or fair 
• trading in a trunk road picnic area 
• newspaper vendors 
• garage forecourts 
• shopfronts 
• a roundsman fulfilling orders, e.g. a milkman 
• holders of highways licences, e.g. tables and chairs or pavement licences 
• street collection permit holders 

We are proposing to offer exemptions in the following areas: 

• non-commercial events e.g. fetes and charity fund raising events 
• public areas of covered shopping centres 
• working farms 
• residential properties e.g. garage sales, sale of homegrown produce 
• used vehicles – domestic sale of second-hand car