Builders' Skips on the Highway

If you wish to place a builder's skip on any part of the highway a licence is required from this Authority. A licence is not normally necessary if skips are placed on private land. Notification must be given if vehicular access will be across a public footway, without a vehicle crossover.

A licence can be valid for any period between 1 day and 28 days. For longer periods additional applications should be made. Only one skip will be allowed on site at any one time except in exceptional circumstances.

Permission is granted with the issuing of a licence number. The application form will be returned to you with the number, or it can be obtained by telephone normally within two working days of receipt of the application.

Whenever possible, skips should be placed on the carriageway. If permission is granted to place skips on a footway or grass verge, a £50 deposit is payable to cover any damage which may be caused.

Skips placed on the carriageway require at least 4 traffic cones on the approach side to guide traffic past the skip.

During the hours of darkness, in poor daytime visibility and bad weather, road danger lamps (flashing amber) must be placed against or attached to each corner of the skip. If sited on the carriageway, a lamp should be placed between each cone. More information about the regulations for skips on the highway.

If this authority's contractors are called out to lamp a skip or make it safe, a charge will follow.

Skips placed on the highway shall NOT contain any inflammable, explosive or noxious material, or anything which is likely to cause nuisance to highway users.

Contents of the skip shall be kept "damped-down", or covered to prevent dust or spillage on the highway. The skip must not be overloaded and must be removed when full.

For further information please contact the Enviro Crime Team using the contact details on the left, or print out, fill in and sign the application form (200KB, PDF file), then return it to Civic Offices, Broadway, Bexleyheath, Kent DA6 7LB, or fax it to 020 8294 6598.

2008 fee is £15.50.