Apply for a Skip Permit
You need a permit from the Council to place a skip on any road in East Dunbartonshire.
The permit will allow you to place a skip on a road for a maximum period of one month. If you need to extend this period you must let us know and you must comply with any conditions attached to the permit.
Please note that a permit is not required if the skip is to be placed in a driveway. On rare occasions, a permit may not be granted.
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The skip permit application form can be completed online or downloaded within our documents sections of the page.
If you need to extend your skip permit you need to contact the Council. An extended permit will allow you to place a skip on a road for a further period of one month. A skip permit extension is charged at £40 on a monthly basis up to a maximum of three months from the date of your original permit. If you need to extend the permit beyond three months, you will require to reapply for a new permit and a further fee of £75 will be charged.
Apply to extend a Skip permit
A skip permit costs £75 and is valid for up to one month.
Permits are generally processed within five working days. This will enable an inspector to visit the place you want to locate the skip to make sure it is suitable.
Applications for a Skip Permit
Applications must be made using the approved application forms and must be accompanied by a copy of a plan or sketch showing the area on which the applicant intends to place the skip.
Applications must be received at least 7 days in advance of any proposed occupation. Once received, the site will be examined and conditions of occupation attached to the permit. The applicant will be contacted directly about issues which are not clear from the completed application form.
East Dunbartonshire Council Conditions for Use of Builders' Skip
Any skip placed on the public Road is subject to the conditions set out in the Roads (Scotland) Act 1984, Section 85 and 86 (Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984, Section 65) As Amended by the Builders' Skips (Markings) / (Scotland) Regulations 1986.
1. Bulk containers (skips) for use on the public Road for the disposal of building materials rubbish or other things shall comply with the appropriate Motor Vehicles Construction and Use Regulations when carried on a vehicle.
2. Each skip shall be positioned so that its longer sides are parallel to the edge of the carriageway and as near to the edge of the carriageway as is reasonably practicable and so that it does not impede the surface water drainage of the road nor obstruct access to any manhole or the apparatus of any statutory undertaker or the East Dunbartonshire Council.
3. Where more than one skip is on the public Road at any one time, the skips shall be positioned as closely as possible to each other, but not so as to obstruct access to any premises unless the consent of the occupier of those premises has been obtained.
4. Each skip or group of skips shall while on the public Road be marked (guarded) and lit in accordance with the requirements of Chapter 8 of the Traffic Signs Manual. The skip needs appropriate lighting and markings (traffic cones) around the skip.
5. Builders' skips placed or deposited on a road must be fitted with vertical red and yellow fluorescent/reflective markings identical to those prescribed for use on the rear of heavy goods vehicles. The design of the skip markings shall comply with the Builders' Skips (Markings) (Scotland) Regulations 1986 which supersedes in part the requirements of Chapter 8 of the Traffic Signs Manual referred to above.
6. The skip shall be in good condition and clearly and permanently marked with the owner's name and telephone number or address.
7. No skip when standing on the public Road, shall contain any inflammable, explosive, noxious or dangerous material or any material which is likely to putrefy or which otherwise is, or is likely to become, a nuisance to users of the public Road.
8. No skip shall be used in such a way that any of its contents fall on to the public Road, or that there is an escape of dust from the contents of the skip when standing on the public Road.
9. Each skip shall be removed for emptying as soon as practicable as and no later than two working days after it has been filled.
10. All materials placed in the skip(s) shall be properly disposed of and the public Road where the skip or skips have been deposited shall be left in a clean and tidy condition on the expiration of this permission.
11. The permit shall be shown, on demand, to any police officer or official of East Dunbartonshire Council.
12. Any skip placed on the public Road shall NOT be placed in such a position that it is:-
a) Blocking the use of any road or footpath or restrict access for emergency services
b) Placed on a verge or footway
c) Within 15m of a junction, within a bus stop or within a school entrance and any associated road markings
d) With 25m of Traffic lights
e) Placed on zigzag markings associated with zebra crossings, pelican or toucan crossings
f) Restrict or obstruct vehicular access and egress from premises
g) Placed on road humps, speed cushions, speed tables or adjacent to pavement extensions
h) A danger to passing pedestrians
Any skip remaining on the public Road after the period of this permission has expired will be liable to receive a Fixed Penalty Notice (FPN).
Note
Section 85(2) of the Roads (Scotland) Act 1984 empowers the local Road authority to impose conditions on its permission relating in particular to the siting and lighting of the skip and the removal of the skip at the end of the period of the permission. Section 85(3) makes it an offence to use a skip in contravention of the Act.
Section 86 of the Roads (Scotland) Act 1984 empowers the Road authority or a police officer to require the removal or repositioning or to remove or reposition a builders' skip deposited on a Road even though it was deposited in accordance with the Road authority's permission and after permission to recover from the owner the cost of such removal or repositioning, and to dispose of a skip which is not collected by its owner. Failure to comply with a request to remove or reposition a skip under the section may result in a Road authority removing or repositioning the skip and recovering any expenses reasonably incurred in so doing.
No. It is in the public interest that we must process your application before it can be granted. If you have not heard from us within a reasonable period, please contact us. There is a charge for placing a skip on the road without consent.
If a skip is located precariously on the pavement, is not guarded with traffic cones or does not have anything around it to make it visible at night, please contact Customer Services on 0300 1234510 with full details. An inspection will be carried out and the skip hire company concerned will be asked to place the skip in an appropriate location taking all necessary precautions.