Statutory fees 2026-27

Effective from 1 April 2026.

Skips

Item Cost Duration
Skips - streets over 5.5m £48 Per 14 days
Skips - narrow streets £48 Per 6 days
Illegal skip (retrospective licence) £168 Per skip

Scaffolds

Item Cost Duration
Scaffold greater than 5.5m high £135 Per week
Structure Check for scaffolds greater than 5.5m high £269 Per scaffold
Scaffold less than 5.5m high £135 Per week

Hoarding

£136 per street frontage per week

Cranes

Item Cost Duration
1 to 3 days duration on site £337 Up to 3 days
Greater than 3 days duration on site £506 Per week

Vehicle crossings

Item Cost
Commercial or non-domestic vehicle crossing £3,370 per crossing
Domestic vehicle crossing £135 per application

Section 50 licences

£540 per licence

Traffic regulation orders

Item Cost
TTRO (closures) £566 per order
TTRN (notices) £577 per notice
Legal fee £742 per item

Streetworks permit

Admin charge: £45 per permit

Section 171 licence (temporary placing of items on the highway)

Item Cost
Civic or national event Free
Event for a registered charity Free on receipt of registration credentials
  • Temporary traffic management
  • Filming equipment
  • Traffic counter/survey equipment and other similar items
£101 per item per week
Pavement art Free

Food trailers or vans

Item Cost Duration
A/B road £101 Per week
C/U road £60 Per week

Drone survey operations

£175 per day

Banners or advertisements

£101 per week

Pedlars cart

Above a small shopping trolley: £101 per week

Commercial event cap

£1,348 per event

Temporary excavation works on the highway (S.171)

Item Cost
Bond £318 per defect
Defect inspection fee £181 per investigation
Investigatory works (zero VAT) £87 per inspection
Emergency work Costs as incurred
Remedial works Costs as incurred

General fees

Item Cost
Flyposting removal £112 per poster
Admin fee £44 per action
Café licences £112 per year
Oversailing £135 per week

S.142 planting licence (per year)

Item Cost
Charity Free
Parish council Free
Private housing association £56 per year
Private individual £56 per year

Traffic management operations

Item Cost
Staff cost per day (8 hours) £472 per day
Equipment cost as required Costs as incurred