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Street trading


Policy area: London Local Government Publications


  • tightens existing legislation with new definitions of what constitutes street trading and closes a potential loophole which could have enabled some trading on bridges over the Thames

  • Perishable Cartoongives councils more powers over the granting, suspension or revoking of temporary licences

  • allows council officers to seize perishable items (previously excluded from the list of what could be seized) from unlawful street traders

  • extends the time period within which proceedings have to be instituted in the case of unlawful trading of motor vehicles