Mayor of London and GLA elections:
You will need to bring a photo ID to vote at a polling station in the GLA and Mayoral elections on 2 May.
If you want to place removable furniture on the pavement to sell or serve food or drink from your premises, you need to apply for a pavement licence.
You are required to apply for a Pavement Licence if you want to display tables and chairs or other relevant furniture on pavements.
Any use of furniture placed on pavements to sell or serve food or drink, or to allow people to consume any food or drink supplied from or connected with the premises, must be licensed.
The furniture may include:
This furniture must be removable; it must not be a permanent fixed structure. It is required to be moved easily and stored away.
Applicants must be aged over 18.
All roads in the borough require a 2 meter clearance from the edge of the kerb or any street furniture before any display may start, therefore the measurements submitted on the application form must allow for this clearance.
A licence granted from now will not be valid beyond 30 September 2024. You will need to apply to renew the licence after this date.
An application will be rejected if it prevents traffic from:
A pavement licence may be granted by a local authority subject to such conditions as it considers reasonable. We may publish standard conditions subject to which it proposes to grant pavement licences.
We may revoke a licence if some or all of the part of the relevant highway to which the licence relates, has become unsuitable in relation to what the licence was initially granted for. As a result, it may:
Your licence will also be revoked if:
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