Review of Street Trading Policy Survey

Street traders/businesses, district, county and town/parish councils, councillors, officers and members of the public for their views on our proposed amends to the Joint Street Trading Policy, which was last reviewed in 2011.

Since the policy was last reviewed, street trading has become more popular in the districts, which in turn, identified gaps within the policy.

The amendments included updates to community and charity events, markets and single-use plastic. We also proposed to include advice we currently give to applicants who wish to trade from multiple sites.

The consultation ran for a six-week period until Tuesday 26 November 2024.

We received 49 responses to the survey.

• Most responses (88%) were received from members of the public.
• 2% of responses were received from a street trader/business.
• 71% of respondents expressed agreement with the proposed changes to the decision-making section of the policy.

You can view all the key findings in our consultation summary report, along with an officer response to the comments received.

The results of the consultation were presented to the council’s General Licensing Committees in February 2025. The committee reports included details of changes made to the proposed policy following feedback from the consultation. The Committees considered the results of the consultation and the proposed policy and agreed to approve it to take effect from 1 April 2025.