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APPLICANTS PLEASE NOTE

PERMITS ISSUED FOR ANY ROAD OCCUPATION CARRY WITH THEM THE RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE CONTRACTOR TO SIGN THE WORKS ADEQUATELY, INFORMING THE PUBLIC OF:

  1. The nature of the works
  2. The name of the client
  3. The Time scale of the works
  4. An emergency contact number

An important note from Strathclyde Police
When issued with a permit to use a builders skip you must comply with the conditions for the use of the skip.

Are you aware your skip could be:

  • A source of offensive weapons
  • A site for litter 
  • A site for ‘Fly Tipping’

COULD YOUR WASTE BECOME A WEAPON?
KEEP YOUR SITE CLEAN AND TIDY

 

Glasgow City Council Land Services

CONDITIONS FOR USE OF BUILDERS’ SKIPS
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 highway 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 Glasgow City Council.
  3. Where more than one skip is on the highway 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 highway be marked (guarded) and lit in accordance with the requirements of Chapter 8 of the Traffic Signs Manual:

    a. 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’ Skip (Markings) (Scotland) Regulations 1986 which supersedes in part the requirements of Chapter 8 of the Traffic Signs Manual referred to above.

    b. Each skip shall be guarded by at least 4 traffic cones placed on the carriageway in an oblique line on the approach side of the skip. (Where 2 or more skips are deposited in a row, so that the distance between adjacent skips does not exceed 2 metres, the row shall be guarded as if it were one skip).

    c. At night (that is to say, between half-an-hour after sunset and half-an-hour before sunrise) a lamp shall be placed against or attached to each corner of the skip or the end corners of the row of skips where two or more skips are deposited in a row and the distance between adjacent skips does not exceed 2 metres, and shall also be placed between each cone and the next. Lamps shall comply with the Traffic Signs Regulations and General Directions.

  5. No skip when standing on the highway, 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 highway.
  6. No skip shall be used in such a way that any of its contents fall on to the highway, or that there is an escape of dust from the contents of the skip when standing on the highway.
  7. Each skip shall be removed for emptying as soon as practicable, and in any case not later than two working days after it has been filled.
  8. No skip shall remain on the highway pursuant to this permission after the period of this permission specified in paragraph 1 of Form BS1 has expired.
  9. All materials placed in each skip shall be properly disposed of and the highway where the skip or skips have been deposited shall be left in a clean and tidy condition on the expiration of this permission.
  10. The skip shall be clearly and permanently marked with the owner’s name and with his telephone number or address.
  11. The permit shall be shown, on demand, to any police officer or official of Glasgow City Council, Land Services.

 

Note

(a) Section 85(2) of the Roads (Scotland) Act 1984 empowers the local highway 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 and specifies a fine not exceeding £100.

(b) Section 86 of the Roads (Scotland) Act 1984 empowers the highway authority or a police officer to require the removal or repositioning or to remove or reposition a builders’ skip deposited on a highway even though it was deposited in accordance with the highway 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 highway authority removing or repositioning the skip and recovering any expenses reasonably incurred in so doing.