Application overview
You may also need to apply for a:
- Section 50 licence – excavating the highway
- temporary traffic restriction
- skip licence
- scaffold or hoarding licence
Returning contractors apply to carry out minor work on the highway here.
Application details
Before minor work is carried out on the public highway you will need to apply for a licence. Types of work requiring a licence include:
- depositing materials such as bricks and bags of sand or equipment on a road, pavement or verge
- house maintenance or building or repairing a boundary wall (where this involves using or reducing the width of a road, pavement or verge)
- carrying out tree works (where this involves using or reducing the width of a road, pavement or verge)
- using traffic lights, stop-and-go boards or other traffic management
If you need to close the road you will need to apply for a road closure. If your work requires more extensive excavations you will need to apply for a Section 50 licence.
You will also need to apply for specific licences if you want to place a skip or scaffolding on the highway.
Cost
A licence costs £71.00. An extension, date change or amendment to an existing licence costs £54. Application costs are exempt from tax.
If the work involved has an impact on a pay or display parking bay or other on-street parking then the costs will be recovered from the applicant.
All costs are non-refundable.
Timescales
We need a minimum of 20 days’ notice to process the application. In exceptional emergency situations, it’s possible for us to grant a licence with less than 20 days’ notice – but this would be at an increased cost of £130.00.
Who can apply
All applications must be made by contractors on behalf of their customers.
You may also need to apply for
Section 50 licence
If your work requires more extensive excavations you will need to apply for a Section 50 licence.
Temporary traffic restriction
If you need to close a road you will need to apply for a road closure
Skip or scaffolding licence
You will also need to apply for specific licences if you want to place a skip or erect scaffolding or hoarding on the highway.