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Waste firms defeat councils on skip fees
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• Councils throughout England and Wales are eliminating charges to waste operators following pressure from trade associations.
The National Association of Waste Disposal Contractors and the Sand and Ballast and Allied Trades Alliance have written to councils throughout England and Wales telling them they can no longer legally charge waste operators for putting skips in the road. This follows a long battle between operators and councils.
Charges of up to E15 had been levied by councils including Greenwich, Erewash, Haringey, Lambeth and Wandsworth, but these have now been dropped, Operators had complained that the charges slashed their profit margins and enabled councils to offer cheaper services.
NAWDC and SABATA, which have been campaigning for more than a year for charges to be dropped, say that a House of Lords decision, made at the end of last year, means that charges are illegal. The House of Lords ruled that charges cannot be made for "incidental" small administrative services.
But the Lords ruling did not cover councils in Scotland, says NAWDC.
SABATA's vice chairman Barry Dennis says that if any councils fail to drop the charges his association, and NAWDC may take one or two of them to court as test cases.