GUIDING PRINCIPLES TO THE LOCAL

AUTHORITIES FOR PREPARATION OF A

STREET VENDING PLAN
[AS PER THE STREET VENDORS (PROTECTION OF LIVELIHOOD AND REGULATION OF STREET VENDING)
ACT, 2014]

I. CONCEPT OF PLANNING FOR STREET VENDING

1. Preparation of Plan- The local authority shall prepare the plan to promote the
vocation of street vendors covering the matters contained in the First Schedule of
the Act. Such plan shall be prepared by the local authority in consultation with the
Planning Authority and on recommendations of the town vending committee.

2. Consultation of other Authority- The local authority may organize a consultative

meeting with the Urban Development Authority and other institutions involved and
work out an overall vending plan for the area.

(a) Steps to be taken for Planning.- The vending plan for areas substantially built up
(brown field) and sporadically built up (green field) may require slightly different
strategies. “Brown field development plan” means a development plan of an area
which is partly or already developed. “Green field development plan” means
development of totally undeveloped area or with very insignificant development.

II. PRINCIPLES FOR PLAN OF STREET VENDING

3. Plan for street vending- (1) Every local authority shall work out ward wise likely
number of the street vendors on the basis of the two and half per cent of the
population of that ward. The Planning Authority shall carry out the exercise to find
out the carrying capacity of the ward taking into account the road width and the
restriction and regulation in the no vending zone.

(2) While working out a carrying capacity of any area, the minimum space for
pedestrian movement after allowing the gathering of the buyers in front of the
vending area shall be clearly identified and marked. Municipal Authority shall
ensure the goods and merchandise of the shops or commercial establishment and
the parking on that road do not occupy any part of the pedestrian movement space.

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 The area requires be kept free from the obstructions in the form of goods and
material hanging with some device projected from the regular shop on that
pedestrian on carriage way.

(3) The existing natural market shall be identified and vending shall be allowed on
the roads on which it is abutting with restrictions as would be warranted for the
sake of traffic movement, both pedestrian and vehicular. The moot point in case of
such market would be to judiciously earmark the areas on which trucks carrying
the goods and merchandise to be sold from the shop in that market are brought in.
Similarly the area for parking and movement of the vehicle meant for solid waste
removal from that market shall be always kept free.

(4) The Plan of the basic service lines with indication of the catch pits and
manholes shall be available on an authentic map of the vending areas. The
existence of public taps and conveniences shall also be indicated. A schedule of
solid waste removal from that area also has to be taken on record. The adequacy or
otherwise of these services in the vending areas across the City or town shall be
examined.

III. SPATIAL PLANNING

4. Steps to be taken for Planning.- The following steps to be taken for spatial
planning for street vending activity in the brown field areas, namely:-

(A) Take the list of the vending areas with the following details,-
(i) number of vendors in each area,
(ii) modes of vending adopted (push cart, spread on floor, rack &
frame etc.),
(iii) type of Vending (stationary / mobile / peripatetic),
(iv) area occupied by each mode of vending,
(v) area of vending carried on from the carriage way, and
(vi) area of vending carried on from the footpath.

(B) Work out ward-wise figures of two and half percent population and
compare them with the numbers of the vendors in the ward.
(C) Fixing the tentative norms-
(i) work out the minimum area required for each mode of vending,
(ii) calculate the total area occupied by street vendors on the road
including the footpath,

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 (iii) checkup whether the area is more than the area which would
work out as per the number of vendors multiplied by the
minimum space requirement - vending mode wise, and
(iv) to find out whether the area occupied is more or less than what
would have been required as per the standard.

(D) In case of area being less than what is required for vending, suggest
the areas where the vendors could be re-accommodated.

(E) Examine the following five strategies for getting more space for street
vending,-
(i) traffic management strategy,
(ii) discovering of alcoves, niche, corners etc. where a small number
of vendors can be accommodated,
(iii) creating some space by shifting compound walls of
governmental building adjoining the roads to some extent so as
to accommodate street vendors there in,
(iv) working innovative methods of offering Floor Space Index (FSI)
/ compensation at market rates for similar deduction from the
compounds of privately owned buildings, and
(v) the design based strategy.

5. Determination of spatial planning norms for street vending in green field

areas.- (1) The Planning for vending space for the street vendors has to be
approached from two different angles, one the planning in the green field areas and
another the planning in the brown field areas including re-development of any
segment of the City or town. For the green field areas, there is certain convention
fixing approximate quantum of space to be reserved for various categories of urban
functions. Usually twenty per cent of the land under planning is kept reserved for
road and street purposes. In order to accommodate the street vendors in future in
the area under planning, the quantum of reservation of land for roads and streets
may be suitably increased. The assumption would be that the street vendors shall be
accommodated in single file on the strips of land running parallel to the roads and
streets. In important areas with rich footfall, it may require more than one strip.

(2) Seasonal or festive vending is normally confined to the sale of certain seasonal
produce like fruits, fireworks, cloth, readymade clothes, decorative elements etc. It
is necessary to ear mark areas where such items can be stored in bulk and sold from

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 the same site. It shall be desirable to keep reservation for such markets in the
master plan or the development plan of green fields.

(3) The declaration of a road one way, thereby, easing the problem of congestion
which ensures from street vending. This may bring out some amount of space for
accommodating a few new vendors also. In case where there are two arterial
parallel roads connected by a number of smaller streets or roads, the street
vendors from main carriage way may be diverted to the connecting roads and
placed in an organized fashion. In such traffic management option, road side
parking shall be completely banned.

(4) In the rich foot fall areas, the planning department shall try to discover the
existence of alcoves, niches, recesses, khuna-khancho, etc. An attempt shall be
made to accommodate street vendors to the extent possible in such places.

IV. VENDING ZONING

6. Determination of vending zones as restriction-free-vending zones, restricted

vending zones and no-vending zones- (1) The carrying capacity of an area would
put the ultimate limit on the number of street vendors which can be positioned in
any area. However, there may not be any restriction on mobile vending in such area
if vendors continuously move without affecting traffic and commuter movements. In
such cases, the town vending committee has to decide the total number of such
mobile vendors who may be accommodated after taking into account the area of
significant footfall and one-third of the holding capacity of the area. Otherwise there
is every chance of mobile vending itself creating problem for the traffic movement,
as the mobile vending invariably takes place from the carriage way. However, it is
the duty of the designated official of the local authority to keep check that number of
mobile vendors shall not cross the limit of at a specific place as decided by the town
vending committee.

(2) Restricted vending zones shall be linked up with the road width. Some
indicative norms, which may be considered are as follows:

(i) No stationary street vending on a road having width equal to 3.5

meters. However, street vending may be allowed if such road is
declared as no vehicular road,

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 (ii) No stationary street vending on a road having width between 6
meters to 9 meters. However, street vending may allowed if such
road is declared as one way vehicular road,

(iii) Only one side stationary street vending on a road having width
between 12 meters to 24 meters while both side stationary vending
may be allowed on a road having road width of 30 meters and
above,

(iv) the number of street vendors shall be decided by considering the

holding capacity of each designated vending area on such a road,

(v) such stationary vending shall be allowed after taking the clearance
from traffic police regarding the smooth vehicular and pedestrian
movement. If required, road side parking may be banned in such
area where street vending is allowed,

(vi) mobile vending may be allowed on such roads after consideration of

the traffic and pedestrian movement, and

(vii) a suggestive road designing is provided in the Annexure I.

(3) Some indicative norms for no vending zone, which may be considered are
as follows:

(i) no vending around 200 meters of the Secretariat, District

Collectorate, offices of District Panchayat, Municipal Corporation,
Municipality, Nagar Panchayat, Courts, Cantonment Board and
Archeological Survey of India and State archeological monuments.

(ii) no vending within 50 meters from any crossing of two or more

roads on all sides, both sides of the railway crossing and any
declared heritage structure by the local authority.

Making of spatial plans conducive and adequate for the prevalent number of
street vendors in that City or town and also for the future growth, by
adopting such norms as may be necessary;

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7. Holding capacity.- (1) The capacity of the vending areas on the basis of the space
norm to be fixed by the town vending committee against the availability of space in
the road or street in that area.

(2) Some indicative criteria for areas to be allotted to individual vendors

are as follows:-

(i) a maximum of 2.2 sq. mts area as ‘vending area’ to be provided to

each vendor/ hawker with dimension of 1.8 meter x 1.2 meter,
(ii) passage of 1.0 meter width in front of stalls / push carts to be
reserved as ‘extension’ for consumers/ users to stand or buy the
goods,
(iii) a walkway / footpath of 1.0 / 2.0 meters width to be provided for
pedestrians in front of extension space depending on the width of
the road,
(iv) in no case, the carriageway allowed to be used for street vending.,
(v) if the width of road permits, the street vending may be allowed on
both sides of the road, and
(vi) no vending activity to be allowed at a distance of 50 meters from
any junction, exit or entry of road or the railway crossing.

(3) The local authority if necessary may review the street plan of the City to
ascertain the availability of total vending space in the City as per the space
allocation norms specified above.

(4) A statement of suggestive norms of road designing of various widths with

various functions including street vending, cycling and service road is
provided in the Annexure I.

8. Consequential changes in the master plan, development plan, zonal plan,

layout plan and any other plan- The town vending committee may review the
street vending plan every five years and suggest the necessary changes if needed in
the master plan, development plan, zonal plan, layout plan or any other plan. Where
any changes are to be made in such plan, the necessary approval of the concerned
authority shall be obtained.

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9. Declaration of no-vending zone shall be subject to following principles,
namely:— (1) (a) Any existing market or a natural market as identified under the
survey, shall not be declared as a no-vending zone;

(b) the ward wise or region wise green vegetable or fruit vending
shall be earmarked and shall be placed away from the public
conveniences. The local authority shall take special care for the
management of such vending places.

(2) The town vending committee, for the purpose of special vending zones
for niche markets or festive season market, may specify the area in various
parts of the City for the hawking for a limited period of time. The vending
from those areas shall be stopped immediately after the season is over or the
period for which the permission was granted.

(3) The First Schedule annexed to the Act contains the following principles
for declaration of no-vending zone, namely:-

(i) declaration of no-vending zone shall be done in a manner

which displaces the minimum percentage of street vendors,

(ii) overcrowding of any place shall not be a basis for declaring any
area as a no-vending zone provided that restrictions may be
placed on issuing certificate of vending in such areas to
persons not identified as street vendors in the survey,

(iii) sanitary concerns shall not be the basis for declaring any area
as a no-vending zone unless such concerns can be solely
attributed to street vendors and cannot be resolved through
appropriate civic action by the local authority, and

(iv) till such time as the survey has not been carried out and the
plan for street vending has not been formulated, no zone shall
be declared as a no-vending zone.

Designation of the Competent Authority to issue such Guidelines.

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 ANNEXURE –I
[SEE GUIDELINE6(2) AND 7(4)]
SUGGESTIVE ROAD DESIGNING WITH STREET VENDING SPACE
(IN MTRS)
Width
Sr. of Footpath Street Service Cycle Carriage Central Carriage Cycle Service Street Footpath Vending Conditionally

No. road Vending Road Track way verge way Track Road Vending Status allowed

(in mtrs) space space

1 3.5 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 3.5 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Not allowed
No vehicular
0.0 3.5 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Allowed area

2 6.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 3.0 0.0 3.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Not allowed
0.0 3.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 3.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Allowed One way road

3 9.0 1.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 3.5 0.0 3.5 0.0 0.0 0.0 1.0 Not allowed
1.0 3.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.5 3.5 0.0 0.0 0.0 1.0 Allowed One way road

4 12.0 1.0 3.0 0.0 0.0 3.5 0.0 3.5 0.0 0.0 0.0 1.0 Allowed One side

5 15.0 1.0 3.0 0.0 0.0 5.0 0.0 5.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 1.0 Allowed One side

6 18.0 1.0 3.0 0.0 0.0 6.0 1.0 6.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 1.0 Allowed One side

7 24.0 1.5 3.0 0.0 0.0 8.5 1.0 8.5 0.0 0.0 0.0 1.5 Allowed One side

1.0 3.0 0.0 0.0 7.5 1.0 7.5 0.0 0.0 3.0 1.0 Allowed Both sides

8 30.0 1.5 3.0 0.0 1.0 9.0 1.0 9.0 1.0 0.0 3.0 1.5 Allowed Both sides

9 36.0 2.0 3.0 0.0 1.5 11.0 1.0 11.0 1.5 0.0 3.0 2.0 Allowed Both sides

10 40.0 2.0 3.0 0.0 1.5 13.0 1.0 13.0 1.5 0.0 3.0 2.0 Allowed Both sides

11 60.0 3.0 4.0 5.0 2.0 15.0 2.0 15.0 2.0 5.0 4.0 3.0 Allowed Both sides

Note : These calculations are subject to approval of traffic division for carrying capacity of vehicular traffic
For two lane traffic minimum 7 mtrs is required for carrying traffic
Minimum Area available for street vending - 3.0 mtrs
Minimum space requirement for pedestrian movements - 1.0 mtr

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