Application/permission to

place a builders’ skip on the

road Community and Enterprise Resources Roads () Act 1984, Section 60, 85 and 86

Transport (Scotland) Act 2005, Section 19

1. Completing and returning the form

You can complete this form in Adobe Acrobat and print it out, or print it out and complete it by hand, using capital letters. Return the form to the appropriate area office, detailed below. If granted, this form will become the permit and will be returned to the skip owner with a permit number and any additional conditions attached. Note: Permits will only be issued to skip owners.

2. Addresses and phone numbers

Roads and Transportation Services operate on an area basis.

Clydesdale area (, , Forth, Law, Biggar, Coalburn, Crossford, Douglas, , Carnwarth, , )

Council Offices, South Vennel, Lanark, ML11 7JT Phone: 0303 123 1015 Email: [email protected].

Hamilton area (Hamilton, , Stonehouse, , Blantyre, , , Rosebank)

Council Offices, Montrose House, 154 Montrose Crescent, Hamilton, ML3 6LB Phone: 0303 123 1015 Email: [email protected].

East Kilbride, / area (, , , Chapelton, Sandford, Drumclog, , , Cambuslang, Rutherglen, Shawfield, Newton, Hallside, Halfway)

Council Offices, Andrew Street, East Kilbride, G74 1AB Phone: 0303 123 1015 Email: [email protected].

3. Further information

For more information or if you want this information in a different format or language, please phone 0303 123 1015 or email [email protected].

4. Charges

The charge is £60 per two week period. Cheques should be made payable to South Council.

5. Conditions for use of builders’ skips

a. Bulk containers (skips) for use on the road for the disposal of building materials, rubbish or other objects shall comply with the appropriate Motor Vehicles Construction and Use Regulations when carried on a vehicle unless otherwise permitted in relation to particular site conditions.

b. 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 Council.

c. Where more than one skip is on the road at any 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.

d. Each skip or group of skips shall, while on the road, be marked (guarded) and lit in accordance with the Code of Practice under Sections 54 and 124 of the New Roads and Street Works Act 1991 – “Safety at Street Works and Road Works”.

i. 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 t he rear of h eavy goods vehicles. The design of t he skip markings shall comply with the Builders’ Skip (Markings) (Scotland) Regulations 1986. The markings shall at all times be kept clean.

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

iii. 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 t he row or skips where two or more skips are deposited in a row and the distance between adjacent skips does not exce ed two metres, and shall also be placed between each cone and the next. Lamps shall comply with the current Traffic Signs Regulations and General Directions.

e. No skip when standing on the 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 road.

f. No skip shall be used in such a way that any of its contents fall on to the road, or that there is an escape of dust from the contents of the skip when standing on the road.

g. Each skip shall be removed for emptying as so on as practicable and in any case not later than two working days after it has been filled.

h. No skip shall remain on the road after the period specified in the permission unless an extension is granted by the roads authority. We enter the notice for the (se) skip(s) into the Scottish Road Works Register as required under the Transport (Scotland) Act 2005 Section 19.

i. All materials placed in each skip shall be properly disposed of and the road where the skip or skips have been deposited shall be left in a clea n and tidy condition on t he expiration of this permission.

j. The skips shall be clearly and permanently marked with the owner’s name and telephone number or address.

k. The permit shall be shown, on demand, to any police officer or official of the roads authority.

l. For the purposes of this permit, a skip is a container designed to be carried on a roads vehicle and to be placed on a road f or the removal and disposal of build ers’ material, rubble, waste, household and other rubbish or earth, not exceeding five metres by two metres in size.

Note

(a) Section 85(2) of the Ro ads (Scotland) Act 1984 empowers the local roads authority to impose conditions to its permission relating in particula r 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 penalty of £120 (2007). (b) Section 86 of the Roads (Scotland) Act 1984 empowers the roads authority or a police officer to require the removal or repositioning or to remove or reposition a builders’ skip deposited on the road even though it was deposited in accordance with the roads authority’s permission and after permission to recover from the owners 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 the roads authority removing or repositionin g the skip and recovering any expenses reasonably incurred in so doing.

Application/permission to

place a builders’ skip on the

road Community and Enterprise Resources Roads (Scotland) Act 1984, Section 60, 85 and 86

Transport (Scotland) Act 2005, Section 19

Permit number and charge to be completed by the council.

Permit number Charge

The South Lanarkshire Council in exercise of their powers under Sections 60, 85 and 86 of the Roads (Scotland) Act 1984 hereby grant permission to:

Name and address of skip owner

Postcode Daytime phone/fax Emergence phone

Public liability insurance reference number to deposit or cause to be deposited a builders’ skip/s singly/in a group (delete as necessary) of up to

Number of skips at any one time Show in Appendix 1 on the following page.

From Until*

This is subject to section 5 “Conditions for use of builders’ skips” and Appendix 2.

Name of road

*Note: See section 4. Charges.

Application/permission to

place a builders’ skip on the

road Community and Enterprise Resources Roads (Scotland) Act 1984, Section 60, 85 and 86

Transport (Scotland) Act 2005, Section 19

Appendix 1: Sketch plan showing the proposed location of skip

Appendix 2: Additional conditions

1. The skip(s) shall be wholly located on the carriageway (not on the footway). 2. The skip(s) shall not be sited on the carriageway within 15m of any junction. 3. Additional condition (1)

4. Additional condition (2)

I agree to comply with the conditions.

For the applicant

Signature

Date

For South Lanarkshire Council Signature

Date