How do I use it?
- Siting your skip
- Marking and lighting your skip
- Using your skip
- Complying with the conditions of your licence
Siting your skip
Your skip should only be deposited, removed or resited on the highway between 8am and 6pm, Monday to Friday, and 8am to 1pm on Saturday. Only in exceptional circumstances, and with the prior consent of the Council, are skips allowed to be deposited, removed or resited outside the above hours.
Your skip should be located as near as possible to the property for which it is required. If more than one skip is sited on the highway at any time, the skips should be positioned as closely as possible to each other. Your skip should not obstruct access to any premises unless the consent of the owner/occupier of the property has been obtained in advance.
You should always have a corresponding parking bay suspension or yellow line dispensation to accompany your skip when placed on the public highway. Permission will not be granted to place a skip on a double yellow line, save for in exceptional circumstances.
Marking and lighting your skip
The owner/licensee of a skip must clearly and indelibly mark the skip with the owner's name, telephone number and address.
Your skip must be painted yellow at each end, and warning lights must be attached to each corner of the skip from 30 minutes after sunset to 30 minutes before sunrise. These warning lamps must be checked daily and kept clean.
Using your skip
Your skip must be covered at all times unless it is being filled or removed. It should not contain any inflammable, explosive, noxious or dangerous material, or any material which is likely to putrefy or to become a nuisance or danger to users of the highway.
Each skip should be removed for emptying as soon as practicable after it has been filled.
Complying with the conditions of your licence
All conditions of the skip licence imposed by the Council must be complied with. Contravention of any condition may result in prosecution action by the Council. The Council, or a Police Officer, can remove or reposition a skip on the highway, even though it was positioned in accordance with a licence issued by the Council. Any costs incurred for the removal, repositioning and/or disposal of the contents of a skip will be recoverable from the owner or licensee of the skip.
The Council is not liable for any injury, damage or loss resulting from the presence of a skip on a public highway.
View full list of Conditions of Use of your skip licence.
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