A skip permit or skip licence as it is sometimes referred to is required for all skips placed within the Public Highway this includes the road plus any paved or grassed area within the Highway. • A separate permit is required for every location. • The skip company who supply the skip is responsible for obtaining the permit (for which there is a charge) from Denbighshire County Council, • The skip company is responsible for indemnifying the Council and must have Public Liability Insurance to the value of £5,000,000. • Denbighshire County Council as Highway Authority has the power to remove any skip which has been placed within the Public Highway without a permit and recharge the cost involved. • All skips must comply with the Specification as detailed in the attached pdf. In certain instances a skip permit may be refused or only permitted at certain times, for example if it would cause disruption to traffic, However refusals are rare and are generally restricted to busy roads or areas with parking restrictions. If a skip is placed on private land a permit is not required. A skip licence application form is attached below, Please print and return completed form to, DENBIGHSHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL, TRANSPORT AND INFRASTRUCTURE, STREETWORKS UNIT, CALEDFRYN, SMITHFIELD ROAD, DENBIGH, LL16 3RJ.

SPECIFICATION FOR BUILDERS SKIP 1. Builders skip means a container designed to be carried on a road vehicle and to be placed on a highway or other land for the storage of builders materials or the removal and disposal of builders rubble, waste, household and other rubbish or earth and shall comply with the appropriate Department of the Environment Construction and Use regulations. 2. The builders skip shall not exceed 6.1m in length by 2m width. 3. Builders skip shall comply with the Traffic Signs Manual, Chapter 8, Appendix 3. Both ends of the builders skip shall be painted yellow and signed with two reflectorised plates as per Schedules 1 and 2 of The Builders Skips’ (Markings) Regulations 1984, see attached. (i.e. 4 reflectorised plates in total, 2 on each end). 4. Provision shall be made for at least four yellow lights (one at each corner) to be fixed securely to the skip. 5. The builders skip shall be clearly and permanently marked with the owner’s name and telephone number or address.

SCHEDULE 1 Department of Transport's Builders Skips (Markings) Regulations 1984 Schedule 1 (Regulation 3) Specifications about design (a)The width of each half of the markings shall be not less than 140 millimetres nor more than 280 millimetres. (b) The length of each half of the marking shall be not less than 350 millimetres nor more than 700 millimetres (c) The angle of each stripe shall be not less than 40 degrees to the vertical nor more than 50 degrees to the vertical. (d) Each half of the markings shall have a minimum area of 980 square centimetres. (e) The breadth of each stripe shall be not less than 133 millimetres nor more than 147 millimetres

SCHEDULE 2 (Regulation 3) Requirements as to Markings. 1 The markings specified in Schedule 1 shall consist of two plates of equal size and the same shape as one another. 2 Each such plate shall comply with the requirements specified in the British Standard Specifications for Rear Marking Plates for Vehicles issued by the British Standards institution and published on 1st April 1970 under number BS AU152: 1970 and shall be marked as provided in paragraph 5 of that Standard. 3 The two plates comprising the marking shall be securely attached to the end of the builder's skip in such a manner that: (a) each plate is as near to an outer edge of the skip as the construction of the skip allows, so, however, that no part of any plate projects beyond an outer edge of the end of the skip; (b) the innermost edge of each plate is parallel to and the same distance from the vertical plane passing through the longitudinal axis of the skip; (c) the upper edge of each plate is parallel to and the same distance from the upper edge of the end of the skip; (d) no part of either plate is attached to; (i) any lid, or (ii) any door except in a case where a door is the only place to which the plate can possibly or conveniently be fixed; and (e) the upper edge of each plate is: (i) not more than 1.5 metres from the ground, and (ii) not lower than the upper edge of the skip save in so far as this may be necessary on account of the construction of the skip, the provisions of Regulations 4 or the provisions of sub-paragraph (i) above. 4. The stippled areas in the diagram in Schedule 1 shall be of red fluorescent material, and the un-stippled areas in that diagram shall be of yellow reflex reflecting material.

REQUIREMENTS FOR GUARDING AND LIGHTING BUILDERS SKIPS. During the hours of darkness the skip must be lit by means of road danger lamps at each corner. See Section O4.7 on the use of road danger lamps. The skips may also be guarded by a line of cones at 1.5m centres (Detail B) on the approach side set at 45° to the edge of the carriageway. During the hours of darkness, a road danger lamp must be placed between each pair of cones in accordance with Section O4.7.

(Chapter 8, “The Traffic Signs Manual” section O3.27 refers) full document available from http://www.dft.gov.uk/pgr/roads/tss/tsmanual/trafficsignsmanualchap8ro4180)