We issue the licences required to place construction and
building items alongside the public highway in North
Somerset.
This includes items such as skips, scaffolding, hoardings and
building materials like sand bags stored on the road.
You require a licence for all these items before you can put or
leave them by the highway.
We inspect prospective sites before we grant approval
to ensure they conform with the Highways Act.
We also require evidence of your public liability insurance
up to the value of £5m.
To apply for your licence download and fill in our
skip licence (pdf, Feb 10, 75KB),
scaffolding licence (pdf, Feb 10,
66KB),
building materials licence (pdf, Feb
10, 86KB) or
hoardings (pdf, Feb 10, 60KB)
application forms.
You can visit our
fees and charges page for information about how much these
cost.
When we have received your completed form we will be in touch
after three working days.
Once permission has been granted the conditions attached to the
licence must be complied with at all times. These conditions
are included in the application form
Action will be taken to remove unsafe scaffolding, illegally
positioned skips and dumped builders materials on the
road. Our service does not cover private land.
For more information contact our
Licensing team
or visit our
service
standards page and download our Environmental and Consumer
Services service standards.