Who can and can't apply?
You must be at least 17 years old 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
- undertaking a permitted street collection
- trading on a shop or petrol station forecourt, selling goods associated with the shop or petrol station