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Licence call to clear eyesore
FED up of seeing skips on the street, taking up valuable parking pace and creating a magnet for fly-tippers?
Birmingham councillor Martin Mullaney reckons he's got the answer.
He wants the local authority to charge builders a fee for each week a skip is in use - to give them an incentive to get a move on.
Mullaney, who represents Kings Heath and Moseley, says: "In my ward, they are sometimes
left for weeks on end and it can really blight an area. They are obviously useful for people doing up their houses, but if they are left too long, they just become open air rubbish dumps."
Issuing licenses to skip users is already common practice in Walsall, Dudley and Solihull, although Sandwell and Wolverhampton, like Birmingham, remain free.
That will soon change though if Mullaney gets his way.
"There are 250,000 skip movements every year in the city," he says."If we only charge £4 a time that's an extra £1 million in income."
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