Consent Street Trading Policy 2026

Appendix 3

Glossary

Term	What this means
The Act	Schedule 4: Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1982
The Council	Stockton-on-Tees Borough Council
Applicant	The individual who has submitted an application for a Street Trading Consent.
Consent holder	An individual who holds a street trading consent and responsible for meeting the conditions attached to a consent.
Assistant	An individual named on the consent as assisting the consent holder in trading and meeting the conditions attached to the consent.
Street	Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1982 Paragraph 1(1), Schedule 3 includes: any road, footway, beach or other area to which the public have access without payment; and a service area as defined in section 329 of the Highways Act 1980.
Street Trading Consent	Permission given by the Council to trade subject to conditions and payment of a fee.
Site	Area identified in the Consent.
Unit	Unit described in the Consent.
Roundsman	An individual who visits a "round" of customers and delivers the pre-orders of those customers, i.e., a milkman. Trading from an ice-cream van or mobile food van is not classed as a roundsman.
Pedlar	A Pedlar must hold a valid Pedlar's Certificate issued by a Chief Constable of Police. Keep moving, stopping only to service customers at their request. Move from place to place, and not circulate within the same area. Carry all goods for sale and not set up a stall.
News vendor	The only articles sold or exposed or offered for sale are newspapers or periodicals and they are sold or exposed or offered for sale without a stall or receptacle for them or with a stall or receptacle for them which does not: exceed 1m in length or width or 2 metres in height occupy a ground area exceeding 0.25 square metres stand on the carriageway of a street
Mobile trader	A Mobile Trader is one that visits more than one location within the Borough and: continually moves from location to location does not wait in one location for more than 20 minutes moves at least 50 metres from the last trading location does not return to the same trading location within four hours
Licensing Officer	An Authorised Officer employed by the Council and authorised by the Council to act in pursuance of the provisions of the Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1982 (the legislation regulating Street Trading).

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