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Contact your local council for a skip licence if you want to put a skip on a public road.
In most areas, skip hire companies are responsible for getting skip licences, also sometimes called skip permits. In some areas you’ll need to do it yourself.
You need a licence for:
- skips
- hippobags and other skip bags
Restrictions
You can’t put a skip on the pavement. You don’t need a skip licence if you’re putting the skip entirely on private land.
You may need to put safety lights and markings on or around the skip. This could include:
- reflective markings
- traffic cones
- night-time safety lamps
- the name and telephone number of the skip hire company
Contact your local council to find exact rules for lights and markings in your area.
Fines and penalties
If you don’t put up the required safety lights and markings, you could be fined up to £1,000.
With an average turnaround time of 30 minutes, grab hire is a faster waste removal service than skip hire. But that’s not all: Grabs hire trucks can carry a lot more waste than skips. A grab hire lorry, on average, can hold as much as 3 times more waste than a standard skip.
Source: https://www.gov.uk/apply-skip-permit
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