Issue - meetings

The report invites Members to consider the responses received to the consultation on the Council’s Street Trading Policy.

The report of the Director of Central Services and Deputy Chief Executive provided the results of the consultation on proposed changes to the Council’s Street Trading Policy and redesignations of the Borough.  The consultation ran from 20 June 2022 to 29 August 2022 and of the 50 responses received, 42% were in favour of the re-designation and draft policy and 58% were against.

During discussion and in response to concern raised by Members, reassurance was given that the re-designation applied to businesses trading on a highway and did not apply to non-commercial events that were community based and run for non-commercial purposes such as fetes or school fund raising activities where any of the profit of the trading was not for commercial gain, and noted that a list of exemptions, although not exhaustive, was contained in the Street Trading policy.

RESOLVED: that the re-designation and the introduction of the new Street Trading policy, with the previous agreed timelines as set out at Annex 3, be continued.