# Business and Planning Act 2020, Section 7: Effects


(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.
(2) A pavement licence constitutes deemed planning permission for anything done by the licence-holder pursuant to the licence—
(a) which is development requiring planning permission under Part 3 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990, and
(b) for which there would otherwise not be planning permission or deemed planning permission.
(3) Anything done by the licence-holder pursuant to a pavement licence is not street trading for the purposes of—
(a) Schedule 4 to the Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1982 (street trading),
(b) Part 3 of the London Local Authorities Act 1990 (street trading), or
(c) any other enactment under or by virtue of which street trading without a licence or other form of permission is unlawful.
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(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.
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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2020/16/section/7 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/business-and-planning-act-2020/section-7
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