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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