Street Trading

Street trading means selling, exposing or offering for sale, any article in a street. Street also includes areas to which the public have access without payment such as car parks.

Street Trading Licences

Elmbridge Council has adopted the provisions of the Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1982 and made orders which prohibit street trading in the following designated streets:

• A245 (Byfleet Road) from the Painshill roundabout to the junction with Brooklands Road,
• A244 (Warren Lane), Oxshott,
• Copsem Lane, Esher,
• Claremont Lane, Esher,
• A309 (Hampton Court Way), and
• A307 (Portsmouth Road) from the Scilly Isles to Fairmile Lane (with the exception of part of Esher High Street)

The Council has not designated any streets as 'consent' or 'licence' streets as many other Councils in Surrey and London Boroughs have done and neither the Police or Surrey County Council can give any permission or written permit to allow trading to take place.

However, if anyone parks a vehicle or sets up a stall , which causes an obstruction to the public highway, then the Police may take action.

Surrey County Council Highways Service has control over the placing of things on public highway pavements and do |licence some restaurants and cafés to allow them to place tables and chairs on the pavement outside their premises provided that the public footpath is not blocked. They cannot give consent for street trading from a stall on the pavement or in a lay-by.