3 August 2025 – Birmingham PSPO – Judicial Review
PRESS UPDATE: 3 August 2025
Birmingham PSPO Prohibiting Lawful Pedlary – Judicial Review
Legal Challenge to Birmingham City Council PSPO
Andrew Logie, an entrepreneur pedlar, is challenging Birmingham City Council’s new City Centre Public Spaces Protection Order (PSPO), adopted on 22 July 2025.
He will be filing a formal application for Judicial Review and urgent interim relief at the Administrative Court on Wednesday 6 August 2025. This challenge aims to suspend and overturn the PSPO, which unlawfully bans certificated pedlars from operating in the city centre — despite their rights under the Pedlars Act 1871 and a binding High Court judgment in 2024 (Logie v Birmingham Crown Court).
He sets out several key arguments:
- The PSPO is unlawful because it overrides primary legislation and a High Court ruling.
- It was made for an improper purpose — to sidestep the judgment in his case, which clarified the legality of mobile, short-term street trading by pedlars.
- The consultation was procedurally unfair and misleading, including false claims about police evidence.
- The Equality Impact Assessment was inadequate, failing to consider the disproportionate effect on self-employed, low-income workers like pedlars.
- The Council failed to follow national Local Government Association (LGA) guidance on how to lawfully make a PSPO.
He is also presenting evidence that he was denied access to the Cabinet meeting that adopted the PSPO — a breach of his rights to fair process and public accountability.
Mr Logie is requesting that:
- The PSPO is suspended immediately in relation to certificated pedlars.
- The Court grants permission for Judicial Review.
- A full hearing is listed before enforcement begins (currently scheduled by the Council for the week of 11 August 2025).
Anyone wishing to support Andrew’s legal fund or to obtain copy of the current Detailed Statement of Grounds please contact the undersigned at pedlars.info directly.
If you are a certificated pedlar and have been affected by enforcement under this or similar PSPOs, please get in touch – your experiences matter.
Robert Campbell-Lloyd
pro bono administration, pedlars.info
3 August 2025