Pavement licence

What is a pavement licence?

What is it for?

If you run a food and/or drink business and want to place tables, chairs, serving stations or other temporary furniture on the pavement or public highway you require a licence.

Government guidance

See the pavement licence guidance on the Gov.UK website.

Alcohol sales

This licence does not allow alcohol sales unless you have a premises licence.

If your premises has alcohol on sale only, you will need to complete an application to notify the licensing team.  Please see the guidance on the Gov.UK web site:

See the guidance for temporary alcohol off-sale permissions

172F notice

This is available to download:

Download the 172F notice