{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/business-and-planning-act-2020/section-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/business-and-planning-act-2020/section-7.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2020/16",
  "legislation_title": "Business and Planning Act 2020",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/business-and-planning-act-2020",
  "path": "section/7",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Effects",
  "text": "(1) A pavement licence authorises the restriction, by anything done by the licence-holder pursuant to the licence, of public access to the part of the relevant highway to which the licence relates.\n(2) A pavement licence constitutes deemed planning permission for anything done by the licence-holder pursuant to the licence—\n(a) which is development requiring planning permission under Part 3 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990, and\n(b) for which there would otherwise not be planning permission or deemed planning permission.\n(3) Anything done by the licence-holder pursuant to a pavement licence is not street trading for the purposes of—\n(a) Schedule 4 to the Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1982 (street trading),\n(b) Part 3 of the London Local Authorities Act 1990 (street trading), or\n(c) any other enactment under or by virtue of which street trading without a licence or other form of permission is unlawful.\n(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(6) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(7) Section 333 of the Highways Act 1980 (saving for rights and liabilities as to interference with highways) applies as if sections 1 to 6 were provisions of that Act.\n(8) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(9) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(10) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 7(4)-(6) omitted (31.3.2024) by virtue of Levelling-up and Regeneration Act 2023 (c. 55), s. 255(9)(a), Sch. 22 para. 10(a) (with s. 247, Sch. 22 para. 18); S.I. 2024/389, reg. 2(u) (with reg. 5(2))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 7(8)-(10) omitted (31.3.2024) by virtue of Levelling-up and Regeneration Act 2023 (c. 55), s. 255(9)(a), Sch. 22 para. 10(b) (with s. 247, Sch. 22 para. 18); S.I. 2024/389, reg. 2(u) (with reg. 5(2))"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2020/16/section/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:01:18.979258+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}