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Skip Permits in Monifieth
Monifieth is in Angus, and Angus Council issues skip permits for the roads. A skip on your driveway or other private land doesn't need one. If it has to go on the road, the council requires the skip company to apply on your behalf, and we arrange that for you.
| Council | Angus Council (roads) |
|---|---|
| Permit cost | £126.00 per month |
| Notice needed | At least 10 working days before the start date, or 20 working days on traffic sensitive routes |
| Placement | Long sides parallel to the edge of the road, not blocking drains, fire hydrants or access to utility equipment. A full skip must be removed within two working days |
| Lighting and marking | Yellow ends with reflective strips, at least 3 cones in a line on the road and a lamp on each corner at night |
| Breaking the conditions | Fines of up to £400, and council officers can move a skip whatever permission was given |
| Applied for by | The skip company, with public liability cover of at least £5 million. We sort this for you |
The council asks for a good deal of notice, so it pays to book early if your skip needs to sit on the road. Tell us about parking and access when you ask for a quote and we'll arrange the permit.
Recycling Centre for Monifieth
Monifieth doesn't have its own tip. Under an agreement between the two councils, people living in the Monifieth and Sidlaw wards use Dundee City Council's Baldovie centre on Piper Street, on the eastern side of Dundee.
| Address | Piper Street, Dundee DD4 0NT |
|---|---|
| Who can use it | Dundee residents, plus Angus residents living in the Monifieth and Sidlaw wards only |
| Opening hours | Winter (1 October to 31 March): 9am to 4.15pm, last entry 4pm. Summer (1 April to 30 September): 9am to 5.15pm, last entry 5pm. Open 7 days a week |
| Vans, pickups and trailers | You need a free permit before you go. They aren't issued at the site and each one covers 12 visits. Hire vans need no permit if you show the rental agreement. Twin axle trailers aren't allowed |
| Rubble | Hardcore, rubble and stone are accepted. Plasterboard is not |
| Asbestos | Not accepted |
With the permit for vans and trailers, the no plasterboard rule and a drive across to Dundee, a tip run for a bigger job gets awkward quickly. For a kitchen or bathroom refit, a garden clearance or clearing out a house, a skip on your drive is usually the simpler option.
Skip hire FAQs.
We provide cheap, local and reliable domestic skip hire in Monifieth 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!
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Local area guide
Skip hire in Monifieth
Monifieth is a town in Angus, sitting on the north shore of the Firth of Tay around six miles east of Dundee, with a population of around 8,000. The name comes from Gaelic, generally taken to mean the bog or moss of the deer, and the settlement is an ancient one — Monifieth was an important early Christian site, and a remarkable group of Pictish carved stones was found at the old church here, now held by the National Museum of Scotland.
The town grew as a fishing and weaving village before the nineteenth century brought industry and then the railway. Monifieth had significant flax and jute works connected to Dundee's textile economy, and the Monifieth Foundry produced agricultural machinery. The railway's arrival in 1838 — on one of the earliest lines in Scotland, the Dundee and Arbroath Railway — turned the town into a seaside resort for Dundee, with a beach, promenade and boarding houses drawing holidaymakers from the city.
Monifieth today is chiefly a residential town and a commuter settlement for Dundee, with a long sandy beach and dunes running east towards Barry Buddon. It has two golf courses, including the Medal Course at Monifieth Links, which has served as an Open Championship qualifying venue and is one of the oldest courses in Scotland, with golf recorded here since the sixteenth century. The links form part of the celebrated Angus golf coast alongside Carnoustie a few miles east.
The Barry Buddon peninsula immediately east is a large Ministry of Defence training area, and its restricted access has left the dunes and grassland as an unexpectedly important wildlife site. The Tay estuary in front of the town is internationally significant for wintering wildfowl and waders, and the reedbeds at Dighty and the Tay's mudflats support substantial bird populations.
Monifieth sits on the A930 with the A92 dual carriageway immediately north, giving Dundee in around fifteen minutes and Arbroath in twenty. Monifieth station is on the Dundee to Aberdeen line with services in both directions. Neighbouring communities include Broughty Ferry, Barnhill, Carnoustie, Newbigging and Muirdrum.
Housing in Monifieth ranges from Victorian stone villas and terraces around the older centre and the seafront to interwar housing, extensive post-war council-built estates, and very substantial modern private development built through the later twentieth century for Dundee commuters. Property is generally above the Angus average, with the beach, the golf and the short run into Dundee underpinning demand.