Response 3744811

Response to request for information

Reference

3744811

Response date

15 May 2025

Request

1. The number of ice cream vans currently licensed to street-trade in your council area
2. Any local bans, restrictions, or specific rules that apply to ice cream vans within your council area. This could include permitted operating hours, restricted zones, or other local policies

Response

1. The number of ice cream vans currently licensed to street-trade in your council area

   • Currently 3 Ice cream vans.

2. Any local bans, restrictions, or specific rules that apply to ice cream vans within your council area. This could include permitted operating hours, restricted zones, or other local policies

MOBILE TRADING CONSENT – Additional Conditions for ice cream vendors or similar

This consent is granted on the basis that a mobile trader must not trade from a site for more than 60 minutes and not return to the same site within 2 hours.

• Mobile units may sound chimes but not:- For longer than 12 seconds at a time.
• More often than once every 2 minutes.
• When the vehicle is stationary.
• When the vehicle is moving, except on approach to a selling point.
• When in sight of another vehicle which is trading.
• When within 50 metres of schools (during school hours), hospitals and places of worship (on Sundays and other recognised days of worship).
• More often than once every 2 hours in the same length of street.
• Chimes must not be louder than 80dB(A) at 7.5m; and Chimes must not be sounded before 12 noon or after 19:00 hours.
• Must comply with the Code of Practice on Noise from Ice-Cream Van Chimes Etc. in England 2013 or subsequent amendments.