Agenda item

The Street Trading Team officer introduced his report, which proposed the designation of an area of the highway on the footway outside 67 – 83 Seven Sisters Road N7 for street trading purposes. He explained that the Town Centre Manager had first identified this area and approached the Street Trading Team for a designation of this area for ad hoc events to help to promote and enhance the local environment. At the same time, a local and long-established trader had asked to be sited permanently outside 67-83 Seven Sisters Road N7. The Committee noted the letters of support for the street trader which were attached to the report, including reports of a reduction in anti-social behaviour, crime and rubbish in the area, since the trader had traded from this site.  Officers had worked closely with Transport for London to achieve the proposed designation.

Members queried the operating times for street traders ie “07:00 hours to 18:00 hours” specified in the newspaper advertisement in Appendix 1 of the report. Officers confirmed that the hours of operation for other traders were from 09:00 to 17:00 hours, with two hours for set up and one hour for closing down.  A new advertisement would be published specifying the correct hours of operation.

The Committee noted the conditions proposed by Transport for London, detailed on page 25 of the report. The Street Trading Team officer reported that these conditions would be incorporated onto the licences for street traders at the two proposed pitches and their successors viz “trading being limited to two pitches, each with a maximum surface area of 8m x 2m set back from the kerb line by 5m and licence conditions including the following:

(a) No loading or unloading will take place from Seven Sisters Road

(b) All receptacles and other equipment to be removed from the highway at the end of each trading session.”

RESOLVED:

That the area on the footway outside 67 - 83 Seven Sisters Road N7 and detailed in Appendix 2 of the report of the Service Director – Public Protection be designated for  street trading purposes, every  Monday to Sunday, from 09:00 hours to 17:00 hours, with two hours setting up time before and one hour setting down time after trading times, subject to the standard conditions associated with a street trading licence and the following additional conditions:

” trading being limited to two pitches, each with a maximum surface area of 8m x 2m set back from the kerb line by 5m and licence conditions including the following:

(a) No loading or unloading will take place from Seven sisters Road

(b) All receptacles and other equipment to be removed from the highway at

the end of each trading session.”

Reason for decision

The Committee considered all of the written and oral evidence.

The Committee noted the letters of support for the street trader from local shoppers, the Police and a local church, for his pitch to be sited permanently on the footpath in front of 67-83 Seven Sisters Road and detailed in Appendix 2 of the report.

The Committee also noted Transport for London’s decision to agree the application to designate this part of the street for street trading purposes, subject to certain conditions.

The Committee wished to support this area for ad hoc events to help to promote and enhance the local environment.