Case Study
Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea CASE STUDYThe Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea run the Street Trading Application Process for Notting Hill Carnival. Since its beginning with the council, the process and administration for Trading Sites has been done through paper applications and fulfilled by a team of administrators between January and August. The Challenge Notting Hill Carnival traders exist under a temporary Street Trading Licence which must be applied for each year. Stalls are first offered to old traders who have successfully traded the previous year. Once these stalls have been allocated, a new trader have the opportunity to apply for those stalls that remain. The process was no longer feasible to complete by hand. The local authority needed a system that pl