Permissions and permits

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You need permission from the council to place or keep objects like skips and scaffolding on, under or over a road or footway. By law, you also need permission to:

• connect to a public road,
• drive animals along or over a road,
• discharge water or mud onto a road, and
• many other road related operations.

This table shows the activities that you need the council's permission for. The middle column shows whether the law applies to public and/or private roads.

Permission needed
Activity	Charge	Type of road	Application form (pdf)
Occupying the road with building materials	£50.00 per month (from 1 January 2012)*	public or private	TOR1 form (pdf - 56 KB)
Erecting scaffolding	£50.00 per month (from 1 January 2012)*	public or private	TOR1 form (pdf - 56 KB)
Fencing off the road for building works	£50.00 per month (from 1 January 2012)*	public or private	TOR1 form (pdf - 56 KB)
Placing anything on the road	£50.00 per month (from 1 January 2012)*	public or private	TOR1 form (pdf - 56 KB)
Placing apparatus in a road, such as a sewer connection at a new house.	£128.00	public or private	You need a road opening permit. Please email or write to us (see below).
Closing a road, for example, for a street party or community event. For further information please see Temporary Traffic Regulation Orders	See application form	public or private	Temporary traffic regulation order form (pdf - 43 KB)
Creating a new access across a footway ( vehicle crossover )	£64.00	public	Footway crossover permit form (pdf 32 - KB)
Placing a skip on the road	£30.00 per month (from 1 January 2012)*	public or private	Contact the Customer Call Centre on 0141 842 4445
Placing wires, beams or cables over a road, such as wires to carry bunting for a community event	No charge	public or private	Please email or write to us (see below)
Placing, painting or fixing a sign, notice or picture	No charge	public or private	Please email or write to us (see below)
Application for Street Markets; Stalls or Displays.	No Charge	public	Consent Application for Street Markets/Stalls/Displays (pdf 39KB)
Application to use portable light signals	No Charge	public or private	Application to use portable light signal

*Please note there is a one month minimum charge.
Please note all forms provided here must be signed and returned to our office address shown below.

Conditions that apply to all TOR1 Applications: Conditions (pdf 23KB)

In addition to these activities, any hauliers transporting their vehicle in or around Renfrewshire must notify the council of their intended vehicle movement.

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• To contact our Roads division :
• email: pt@renfrewshire.gov.uk
• phone:0300 300 0144
• fax us on: 0141 618 7935
• call in or write to us at:
  Renfrewshire House
  Cotton Street
  Paisley
  PA1 1LL

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