Market traders in one part of Liverpool city centre could be barred from selling football merchandise, burgers and children's toys under new council rules.
The rules will apply on the pedestrianised area at the junction between Bold Street and Ranelagh Street, referred to in a council report as Waterloo Place.
The council's street trading committee will decide later this week on a new set of guidelines that traders applying for permission to operate there will need to follow in order to get a pitch.
It follows a decision by the same committee last year to change the street's designation, giving the council far more control over what type of businesses can trade there - and how long they can trade there for.
The redesignation, which turned Waterloo Place from a 'licensed' street to a 'consent' street also means the council can now revoke a stallholder's ability to trade there - and the trader has no right to appeal.
The report says: "The City Manager considers that the re-designation of Waterloo Place as a Consent street provides a valuable opportunity for a different type of street trading, focussed on providing a variety of interesting products from a selection of different traders."
It says that the goods sold in the area 'should be something completely different' from what other traders in the city sell - and provides a list of items which the council believes are already provided by traders and therefore will not be allowed for sale at Waterloo Place.
That list includes football merchandise, bedding, children's toys, burgers, sweets, ice cream and fruit and veg.
Instead the council has drawn up a list of the goods it would like to encourage to be sold from the plot, including vegan and vegetarian products, craft ware and health foods.
The street trading committee will meet on Friday morning to agree the new rules.
