A car boot in the summer and a great place to pick up a few bargins.
Not sure what a car boot is? A car boot is basically a yard sale with lots
of other people where people can walk around buying things you no
longer need.
Describes car boot sales as an alternative retail format focusing on
consumers’ shopping motives and related shopping behaviour in this type
of retail setting. Concludes that car boot sales appeal more to middle and
lower social class groups. Further concludes the growth of the car boot
sale is largely due to the functional needs and non-functional wants of
these sub-groups
When you buy anything second hand it's important to have a good look at
what you are buying. If you are looking for something specific, like an
electrical item, it is wise to take someone with you who knows something
about what you're buying.
If you have bought something from a boot sale,
which turns out to be faulty, then it's a gamble whether you'll get any
money back. It's not a simple as returning it to a permanent shop or regular
market stall.
All car boots sales require planning permission except that, where it is
as a one off event held on a single occasion during the year, the use will
normally be considered to be de minimis. However, because of the
provisions of the Town and Country Planning General Permitted
Development Order 1995 certain permitted development rights apply
to open land not within the curtilage of a building. In such cases the
Order effectively grants planning permission to the holding of a market
including car boot sales for up to 14 days in total in a calendar year. It is
however, a legal right which may be taken away by the Council at
relatively short notice in order to regain control in instances where severe
local problems e.g. traffic hazards are anticipated or become apparent.
If you hold or organise an occasional sale including a car boot sale that is
to say not a fixed/regular trading event within North Yorkshire, or such a
sale is to be held on your premises, then you must notify us. Notification is
required from both the organiser and the premises owners and must be
given at least 21 days before the event.
