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Skip Hire and Permits

DE_612183 · 2022-07-04 08:15:15

Looking for some advice - I want to hire a skip but the road I live on is "unadopted" - as it's a new build. My local council want £50 for a skip permit for putting the skip on the "highway" Is an unadopted road still a highway - or is it private land, and therefore as long as I get approval from the builders / management…

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Section62 Posts: 10,515 Forumite

4 July 2022 at 11:36AM

DE_612183 said:

This is what is on their website...

It would take a while to research the local legislation, but since the first sentence on their webpage - "As the Highway Authority, Cardiff Council has a duty under the Highways Act 1980 Section 139 to control skips placed on the highway" - is wrong, I doubt they have the powers to do what they are doing.

(S139 imposes no such 'duty')

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