Street trading licences

Our Street Trading Policy [PDF, 0.2MB] covers all streets in South Cambridgeshire (except the A11 and A14, and any area of land which is owned by the county, district or parish council).

The policy refers to a person wanting to sell any fresh food or general items/products in the street. Examples of this are:

• food vans
• ice cream vans
• selling flowers

There are a few activities which this policy doesn’t refer to such as trading at a fair, fete or similar one-day community event. Full details can be found within the Policy [PDF, 0.2MB]

Apply for consent 

Make sure to apply for consent. There are 3 types of consent:

1. Standard Consent: for trading on the highway or at any location not registered as a Consented Premises
2. Consented Premises: where you own or occupy the land and wish to allow trading to take place
3. Consented Premises Trader: where you wish to trade at a premises which holds a Consented Premises consent

1) Standard Consent includes:

• Static Street Consent: this is when you (the operator) are trading at a fixed pitch (place) for more 4-and-a-half hours in a 24-hour period
• Mobile Street Consent – this is when you (the trader) wants to move from place to place. You must not trade in one location for more than 4-and-a-half hours at a time, and must not return to the same site on the same day – even if you have consent to trade at many different sites. (The 4-and-a-half hour time period excludes setting up and clear up time.)
• Layby Traders Consent – this is when you (the operator) is trading fixed hours in 1 place during the week