Road Services charges
View our road services charges:
- Excavation permits
- Road occupation permits
- Traffic orders
- Road markings
- Road status enquiry outwith formal property enquiry system
- Cycle racks and lockers
- Charges for unauthorised housing development signs
VAT is included at the current rate and may change due to alterations in the National VAT rate.
If you're unable to download any of the forms, please contact your local roads office who can supply a copy.
Permits and consent rates as of 1st April 2022.
Excavation permits
Under Section 109 of the New Roads and Street Works Act 1991.
Permit | Charge |
Excavation not involving installation of private apparatus | £109 |
Excavation for installation of a private apparatus, classed as Minor Works (one inspection included) | £202 |
Excavation for installation of a private apparatus, classed as Major Works up to one inspection unit (3 inspections included) | £293 |
Cost of additional inspection to 1.2 or 1.3 | £36 |
Additional charge to 1.3 per additional inspection unit | £108 |
The inspection fees are approved nationally.
Road occupation permits
Unauthorised road occupations may result in the issue of a fixed penalty notice. The penalty will be £120 reduced to £80 for prompt payment. Consent will still be required if the occupation is to continue and the normal permit fees will apply in addition to the fixed penalty.
Permit | Charge |
Scaffold for a continuous period up to one month, less than 25 metres long | £116 |
Scaffold for a continuous period up to one month, 25 metres or over |
£160 |
Scaffold for each subsequent month | £64 |
Scaffold extension of original permit up to 1 month, under 25 metres | £103 |
Scaffold extension of original permit up to 1 month, 25 metres or over | £145 |
Mobile tower scaffold (erected and dismantled daily) | £30/day £47/week |
Crane permits, occupation of a road for up to 1 week | £103 |
Temporary traffic signals (up to 7 days) | £47 |
Builders skip up to 7 days | £34 |
Building materials up to 7 days | £34 |
Temporary traffic orders
Permit | Charge |
Temporary traffic order for planned works up to 5 days | £435 |
Temporary traffic order for planned works in excess of 5 days but not more than 18 months | £780 |
Temporary traffic order for any extension to a temporary restriction where permissible | £435 |
Permanent traffic orders
Permit | Charge |
Permanent traffic order required to enable a new development | £1,667 |
Vehicular access
Permit | Charge |
Application for new vehicular access from an unclassified road where formal Planning Consent is not required. Charge per application | £47 |
Application for keep clear marking (elongated "H") at private access | £315 |
Road status enquiry outwith formal property enquiry system
Permit | Charge |
Application for information for road classification from the statutory list of public highways (charge per application) | £38 |
Cycle racks and lockers
Permit | Charge |
Deposit for cycle locker hire at Ellon Park and Ride | £10 |
Deposit for cycle locker hire at Fraserburgh bus station | £10 |
Deposit for cycle locker hire at Aberdeenshire train stations | £10 |
Cycle locker hire per 4-week period at Aberdeenshire train stations | £5 |
Aberdeenshire train stations - Huntly, Insch, Inverurie, Portlethen and Stonehaven
Charges for unauthorised housing development signs
Developers must pay a £44 standard charge for the removal of an unauthorised housing development sign.
Any additional signs at the same location (within 50 metres of the first sign) shall be charged at 50 percent of the standard charge. Higher charges shall apply for sign removals which are more time consuming than normal or require additional equipment.
View our signing of new developments guidance to get more information and find out how to make an application to get authorisation to put a sign up.