Commentary on Sections Part 5: Highways and Roads Section 67: Builder’s skips: charge determined by reference to duration of occupation of the highway
187.Section 74A of NRSWA enables the Secretary of State to make regulations requiring an undertaker executing street works in a maintainable highway to pay to the highway authority a charge, determined in the prescribed manner by the reference to the duration of the works. The regulations made by the Secretary of State under the power enable highway authorities to impose on undertakers a charge for each day of street works ("lane rental" as it is commonly known). Lane rental powers were piloted in two local highway authority areas, Middlesbrough and Camden.
188.Section 67 confers a power, by regulations, to make provision for “lane rental” in relation to the placing of a skip on a maintainable highway.