Problem with Council letting us have a skip !

[katekoala]

I live in a terraced house and we are due to have our severely messy garden completely landscaped. The only ay to remove the rubble etc is place a skip at the rear of our property - but the council are refusing this. Can they? How can I contest? Its only going to be there for a week and we have no other way of being able to remove what we need to from the garden ....

thanks

[ummmm]

When I ordered a skip I didn't check with the council.

[Old_Geezer]

It is often easier to seek forgiveness than to obtain permission.
So long as you were not going to seriously inconvenience your neighbours, of course.
Still what is done is done. Sorry not sure how you can contest it. Maybe you need to site it out front and carry the stuff through ?

[Truechub]

Unfortunately the whole skip thing can be awkward, if it's in a drive and off the public highway no problem, otherwise a permit is required, if it is going to cause an obstruction of any kind then the Council will refuse.......can the skip not be put in your garden?

[DEN53]

kate - is the rear an access road for other houses or just a sort of alleyway type of thing ? Can you not have it in the road out front ?

[katekoala]

Basically I have a very long garden, to take it through the front (which would include 30 fence panels and vast amounts of concrete!) they would need to take it over a 40ft garden, through the house - which is near impossible and awfully messy :(

Basically the back of my house backs onto a small bank, and then the bank slopes down to a main road. I understand the 'dangers' of this, however, all the relevant signs would be up & lights etc.

Just seems really mean - as i couldnt physically move this myself, and i havent found a company that is willing to do this without easy access to a skip.

[DEN53]

Kate - if you are saying that a skip lorry could place a skip at the bottom of your garden, then how do they access that ? if there is a road around to the back of your garden, then why would they have to come through your house ?

[katekoala]

they cant place a skip at the bottom of my garden (my garden is on a slope) therefore the skip would need to be on the main road, outside of the rear of the garden. There is no feasible way for the skip to be put in the garden based on the slope - its covered in trees - and a skip delivery person would never be able to get up the bank & through the trees. I know its very difficult to understand from a description :(

the main road is at the rear of the property (at the bottom of the bank) this is where we are trying to get the skip - but it is being refused

[LoftyLottie]

I would write to the council telling them exactly of your predicament and ask them to come up with a solution which suits both them and you. Copy your letter to the Chief Executive of the Council and to your local councillor and MP. Someone will have to see sense and it will probably mean traffic lights on the road behind you (which they would agree to if any of the services needed access to the back of your house). Persevere and don't take no for an answer.

[LoftyLottie]

But how would the delivery drivers get bags of cement and sand up the slope anyway? I doubt if Health and Safety would allow them to.

[katekoala]

hi
not using cement or sand in the garden, basically everything is being dug up & removed - then they would just wheelbarrow (i presume) to the skip at the back
but think your answer is probably the best - will speak to the council directly, there must me some sort of compromise ... hopefully.

thanks all :)

[Canary42]

There are thousands of people in this country without vehicular access to their back gardens - they have to use the "through the house" option I'm afraid. For this reason I don't think the council will consider relenting. But good luck anyway :)

[glen-d]

write to ur councillor

[buildersmate]

I don't think the council will relent either - sorry to be the bearer of bad news.
The highway is the highway and one can't leave a skip on it (not without permission).
Oh yes, sure you CAN get permission but it will cost you - anything is possible - alternate single line of traffic with lights, complete road closure - all of these things are possible and they merely cost readies. That's how the big contractors do it. Statutory notices have to be published in papers etc.
Some may believe that the small man/woman in a humble dwelling can 'get away' with a less rigourous process - and hence writing to their over-pressed local councillor will somehow work magic.
I don't think so - but you can but make that call and try.

[chattykathy]

I think your council is being mean - you see skips with lights around it on the roads all the time. How about hiring/borrowing a flat back truck, piling the rubbish into that then taking it to the local tip? Surely the council can't stop you parking a truck - unless there are double yellow lines.
Good luck