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Skip Permits in Lauder
Roads in Lauder are looked after by Scottish Borders Council, so that's who issues skip permits. A skip on your driveway or other private land doesn't need one. If it has to go on the road, the skip company applies to the council, and we arrange that for you.
| Council | Scottish Borders Council (roads) |
|---|---|
| Permit cost | £55 per month, then £55 for each further month |
| Notice needed | At least 2 working days before the skip is due |
| Maximum skip size on the road | 5m long and 2m wide, with up to 2 skips per application |
| Lighting and marking | Yellow ends with red and yellow reflective markings, the owner's name and phone number, at least 3 cones in a line on the approach side and lamps on each corner at night |
| Applied for by | The skip company, with your details and a plan of where the skip will sit. We sort this for you |
Lauder's main street is the A68, so parking a skip outside a house on the High Street or Market Place almost always needs a permit and careful placing. Tell us about parking and access when you ask for a quote and we'll arrange the right permit.
Nearest Recycling Centre to Lauder
Lauder doesn't have its own tip. The nearest is Galashiels Community Recycling Centre at Easter Langlee, about 10 miles south, run by Scottish Borders Council.
| Address | Langshaw Road, Easter Langlee, Galashiels TD1 2NT |
|---|---|
| Winter hours (28 Sept to 28 March) | Monday and Wednesday to Friday 10am to 4.45pm, Saturday and Sunday 9am to 4.45pm. Closed 1.15pm to 2pm for lunch and closed all day Tuesday |
| Summer hours | As above, with a late opening until 6.45pm on Mondays |
| Trailers and large vehicles | You must book a slot with the council before you go |
| Asbestos | Not accepted at Scottish Borders recycling centres |
A round trip to Galashiels is the best part of 20 miles, and the centre shuts on Tuesdays and over lunch. For a kitchen or bathroom refit, a garden clearance or clearing out a house, a skip on your drive saves a lot of driving.
Skip hire FAQs.
We provide cheap, local and reliable domestic skip hire in Lauder and within a 30 mile radius.
It’s not just a case of how much waste you have! You also need to consider how much room you have on your site and will then need to think about the type of waste you will be disposing of. For example if the waste is heavy (e.g. soil/brick/rubble) then you will be restricted as to how large a skip you can have.
When only a single skip is expected, we strongly believe that it’s better to hire a skip that you may not quite fill, as opposed to ordering a skip which ends up being too small meaning a second skip is then required as a result. In other words it’s better to overestimate than underestimate!
When filling a skip it can only be loaded up to the level of the actual skip itself.
It is important that your site foreman and operatives are aware of this as it is actually against the law for drivers to carry over loaded skips on the highways. Likewise, using boards around the skip in an attempt to increase it’s capacity (known in the trade as ‘greedy boards’) is illegal.
If a driver arrives on site to find an overloaded skip they are likely to turn away and leave without the skip, thus potentially incurring additional transport charges.
Though we try to be as flexible with hire periods as possible, as a general rule the maximum hire period is 7 days.
Of course should your site be an ongoing one where numerous skips are required and exchanged on a regular basis then there is nothing to worry about. If however, you require a skip that is likely to be needed for more than 7 days without exchanges, we request you inform us at the time of ordering as a rental charge may be applicable.
Yes. Though any skip that needs to be sited on a public highway, pavement or council owned verge, first requires permission from the local authority responsible.
Though the charges involved and the length of time it takes an application to be processed varies from council to council, in the vast majority of cases we can arrange the required permit on your behalf. Depending on the local authority in question, application periods can be anything from ‘same day’ to 4 weeks, so when you know that a permit is likely to be required on an upcoming site it is vital that you give us as much notice as possible to avoid any unnecessary delays.
Please also note that as the hirer, the lighting and coning of the skip whilst it is placed on public land is your responsibility, though we are usually able to arrange for the hire of these items on your behalf too.
A standard skip or roll-on-off vehicle usually requires a minimum of 10ft (3.3m) width and approximately 13ft (4m) headroom to safely gain access to a site. If your site access falls a little below these requirements we are able to (in most areas) arrange for smaller skips (depending on waste type) to be delivered on smaller lorries.
If you are in any doubt about the access to your sites, we are here to help, so just ask!
There are certain types of waste that cannot be placed in general waste skips under any circumstances.
Examples of such waste types include (but are not limited to): asbestos, fridges, freezers, batteries, tyres, gas cannisters, paint tins, food waste, fluorescent tubes, liquids, TV sets, computer monitors, plasterboard, electrical items (WEEE), mattresses, tree stumps, tree roots, carpet, vinyl, astroturf, rubber matting & roof felt.
It is vital that you always inform us of exactly what your are intending to dispose of at the time of ordering!
Choose your skip size in Lauder
Not sure which size you need? Compare dimensions, capacity and typical uses — every size below is available in Lauder.
Local area guide
Skip hire in Lauder
Lauder is a small town in the Scottish Borders, sitting on the Leader Water in Lauderdale around 25 miles south-east of Edinburgh, with a population of around 1,200. It is a royal burgh, chartered in the fourteenth century, and one of the smallest in Scotland — its Town Hall of 1773 stands in the middle of the broad main street, the classic arrangement of a Scottish burgh, with the buildings ranged on either side and the long burgage plots running back behind them.
Lauder's great house is Thirlestane Castle, seat of the Maitland family, Earls and Dukes of Lauderdale, standing just east of the town. Begun as a fortified tower in the thirteenth century and transformed in the 1670s by Sir William Bruce for the Duke of Lauderdale — Charles II's powerful and much-feared Secretary of State for Scotland — it has some of the finest seventeenth-century plaster ceilings in Britain, and its pink sandstone turrets make it one of the most striking castles in the Borders.
The town's dark moment came in 1482, when the Scottish nobility seized James III's favourites during a military muster at Lauder and hanged them from Lauder Bridge — the episode that gave rise to the phrase about belling the cat, after Archibald Douglas, Earl of Angus, who volunteered to lead the deed and was known afterwards as Bell-the-Cat. The Church of St Mary, built in 1673 to a Greek cross plan by Sir William Bruce, is one of the most unusual and architecturally significant parish churches in Scotland.
Lauder holds its own Common Riding each August, with the Cornet leading riders round the burgh's extensive common land — Lauder still owns one of the largest areas of common in Scotland. The surrounding Lauderdale is sheep and arable farming country, with the Lammermuir Hills rising to the north and east and the Southern Upland Way passing through the town.
Lauder sits on the A68, the main route between Edinburgh and Newcastle, with Edinburgh around 45 minutes north and the Borders Railway terminus at Tweedbank roughly 20 minutes south. Neighbouring communities include Earlston, Oxton, Blainslie, Westruther and Stow. Housing is almost entirely traditional, with stone cottages and terraces along the Market Place and High Street — a high proportion listed, with the whole centre a conservation area — alongside Victorian villas, interwar and post-war council housing, and limited modern development, with the Edinburgh commute driving much of the current demand.