A pavement licence permits the business to use furniture placed on the highway to sell or serve food or drink and/or to allow the space to be used by people for the consumption of food or drink supplied from, or in connection with the use of the premises.
Pavement licences are for businesses that are looking to use the public highway to place street furniture (either fully or in part) for the sale or consumption of food and/or drink on or off the premises.
The application process will take 10 working days, excluding bank holidays. This includes five working days for public consultation, and then five working days to consider the application after the consultation.
Highway licences are not transferable between existing and replacement business owners. If a new business owner takes over responsibility for items on the public highway, the replacement business owner must apply for a new licence.
Permits are required for most work in the road or pavement that takes place on any publicly maintainable highways. Permissible works include such things as: street works - work on plant and apparatus in the street by undertakers.
If the path is used for walking only, it is a footpath. This is different from the pavement alongside a road, in that it means the whole width of the highway. Footpaths are usually just tracks, and are rarely surfaced or lit.
In reality, no single individual has complete ownership over any public right of way; rather, it is subject to various local laws and regulations which serve to protect both private property owners and those using the area for public access.
You need a valid street trading licence from the council if you're selling, offering to sell, or displaying for sale anything in a street or any other public area, or within 7 metres of the public highway.
If you are a business such as a restaurant, bar or café, under the London Local Authorities Act 1990 you need permission to place tables and chairs on the public highway.
Do you need planning permission for outside seating?
Where the tables and chairs are to be placed on publicly maintained highway, planning permission is required. Where tables and chairs are to be placed on a privately maintained highway, you don't need planning permission but you do need to apply for a Tables and Chairs Licence.
Footway is a modern legal term which refers to the part of the highway set aside for pedestrians. The footway is more commonly referred to as the pavement, however it should be noted that footways do not all have the same surface.
Are pavement, sidewalk, footpath, and pedestrian way the same things? The notion that “pavement” is “chiefly British” is not something to which I would adhere. All of these terms roughly correspond to paving with some sort of loose aggregate (like rocks) or cohesive aggregate material (like asphalt or concrete).
T: Pavement refers to the paved area of the road that's designed exclusively for pedestrians. It's taken from the Latin pavimentum, which means “trodden down floor.” Trodden on because it's for pedestrians.
Types of pavement in road construction. There are two main types of road surfaces and pavement construction methods: rigid pavement (consisting of one layer) and flexible pavement (typically made up of multiple layers). Pavements are often made of materials such as asphalt or concrete.
How do I find out who owns the pavement outside my house?
Each local highway authority (county council or unitary authority) will have records of public rights of way in its area and local archives are therefore the best place to start a search.
Regardless of who owns the soil, the public may have a right of passage over it, ie it may be part of the highway. Consequently, if a public right of passage over such a verge is claimed, it is no answer for the adjoining owner to say 'the land belongs to me' since even if it does, it may still be part of the highway.
In most cases the grass verges beside roads and footways, up to the boundary wall, hedge or fence, are part of the highway. It's our responsibility to maintain the verges, including cutting the grass.
You *can* dig up their pavements with permission though - you can't do it yourself, but if you employ a registered contractor from their list, who has the right insurance, and let their inspector take a look then it is possible.
Their driveway is presumably within the boundary of their house and is owned by them. As such, unless their driveway is subject to a right of way enjoyed by a defined third party, they can decide who accesses their land and who does not.
If someone purposefully blocks a pavement or road without good reason or permission, they are guilty of an offence. We have legal powers to make them move the obstruction.
Under the Greater London Council (General Powers) Act, motorists cannot park on urban roads with their car's wheels on pavements, grass verges or any land between carriageways.
The 20-year rule explained. The legislation is clear when it states that for a right of way to be claimed by prescription it must have been used for a period of at least 20 years. This must be for a full 20 years, which is not always straightforward to establish.
