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You must be at least 17 to apply for street trading consent.
You can’t apply for street trading consent if you are:
- a pedlar with a valid pedlar’s certificate
- trading in a charter market or a statutory market
- trading in a trunk road picnic area under the Highways Act 1980
- trading as a newsvendor on one pitch and only selling newspapers and periodicals
- trading as a roundsman (generally trading door to door rather than from the street)
- undertaking a permitted street collection
- trading on a shop or petrol station forecourt, selling goods associated with the shop or petrol station