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Building and construction licenses

Apply for scaffolding, skip, building materials or highway licences.


Skip operator licence or for a skip licence


If you operate a skip hire business or own skips, you need a permit under the Highways Act 1980

Scrap metal licence


The Scrap Metal Dealers Act 2013 came into effect on 1 October 2013

Highway licences


Application forms, costs and requirements for a Highway Licence, Street Works Licence or Temporary Traffic Order.

Highway projection licence


Licences are required for any display that may protrude or project over a public highway

Apply for a weighbridge operator's licence


Trading Standards officers test public weighbridge operators and issue them certificates

Section 61 applications


Developers and contractors who are undertaking major works can apply to the Council for a Section 61 Consent

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