Shrewsbury car boot sales to need licence?
Thursday 1st July 2010, 10:07AM BST.
Car boot organisers could have to apply for a licence to hold events in Shrewsbury if a 12th century charter is adopted into modern policy.
Shrewsbury Town Council is looking at whether people running the sales should have to have a licence.
The authority wants to protect the medieval charter and bring it into the modern age by adopting it into policy.
The charter allows market-style events to be held within “six and two thirds of a mile” of Shrewsbury centre – the distance it was believed a farmer could walk with his goods and back in a day in medieval times.
Councillors will be discussing whether to adopt the charter at their full council meeting on Monday.
Helen Ball, town council clerk, said: “We have sole rights to operate a market within the town of Shrewsbury. We have the right to licence permission for any market that could rival the existing market, which the town council runs, and we are preparing policy that will allow us to do that.
“It will protect traders because one of the key things about the market is it is vital it is a viable trading centre.”
Recent changes to EU legislation meant it was important to protect the charter rights of the town.
“School fairs won’t be classed as markets but it could stop rival markets being set up that conflict with the interests of the market that already exists in the town,” she said.
Any new licence requirement will be publicised by the council.
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They also want to re-introduce witch burning and wild boar hunting,in an attempt to bring Shrewsbury forward into the 21st centuary
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AHHHHHH the council have woken to another way of extracting money, took a long time for some one there to think of this one.
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What a load of 12th century medieval crap!
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Say what you think, man.
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like most of our laws :)
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a medieval town run by medieval councillors.
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Isn’t there a charter that says at certain time as long as it is with a longbow you can shoot the invading Welsh over the Welsh bridge??
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As most carboots within striking distance of the town are for raising money for local schools or charity, shame on the council. All the ones further afield will get the revenue with none what so ever going to a good cause.
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I thought waste collection was included in our council tax? Well done stc. Why don’t you go the whole hog and send us all tax returns to complete for selling our rubbish on a sunday morning.
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they are just trying to make more income, this is on top of all the taxes we pay,this is beurocracy gone mad, the coalition promised us and end to this sort of red tape!
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Any chance of chopping 40% from this council! They haven’t a clue – not a commercial brain cell among them. Just another way of screwing the public in already tough times and stopping any new initiatives in the town. Have you been to the market recently – its dire and traders are leaving – what a joke. Will the last person to leave turn out the light on this backward fossil.
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another reason to go shopping in Telford! Well
done councillors.
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#7 “. All the ones further afield will get the revenue with none what so ever going to a good cause.” – how do you know this?
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