20:36 PM, 4th April 2013, About 13 years ago 14
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Did you know that if you carry waste in the course of your business (property letting) for profit, then you are likely to require a Waste Carriers License?
If you use contractors, they must have one.
Do you think that it may not apply?
Well, guidance states that it includes all these items:
Examples of construction and demolition wastes would include:
If these related to your own home, you’d be exempt.
Okay, so now you’re aware, let’s pretend you’ve not read this and everything will be okay!
Well, you can get fined up to £50k or face a 5 year jail term for not having one!
Okay – still not convinced?
Here’s a plumber who was fined for taking a radiator away from a house – LINK HERE
Read this story about somebody being pulled up for putting a bacon butty wrapper in a bin (no joke!) – LINK HERE
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20:17 PM, 11th April 2013, About 13 years ago
You can get away with using a car for one load but if you turn up again, especially during July and August they will ask you to pay because they know that you are a landlord cleaning out a property after students. They even ask for the address of the property.
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10:01 AM, 12th April 2013, About 13 years ago
Sorry meant to post oon this last week.
The Landlord does not need a waste licence himself only his contractor. An agent is best advised to warn a Landlord that a waste licence may be needed in their name, but that discharges their Duty of Care.
This is an enormously complex area and the Agency themselves do not fully understasnd all their own rules and will freely admit this. They also have no idea of what any fine levels may be only the local authority can confirm – so they say.
If a Landlord is working on any property other than their own residence and disposing of waste then they will need a licence as in effect they are their own contractor but not on their own residence.
Any contractor instructed by a Landlord or agent needs to have a waste carriers licence but even then it can depend on the ‘carrying’ that is being done.
As I said this is an incredibly complex area but this advice is based on my own detailed research and that of a colleague who spoke last month coincidentally to a senior party at the Environment Agency who also confirmed a Landlord themselves do not need a waste carriers licence.
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12:28 PM, 12th April 2013, About 13 years ago
When does something removed from a property become waste?
I often re-use kitchens & baths from my better properties.Is this waste?
Surely anyone dealing in 2nd hand furniture would then need a licence.
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13:01 PM, 12th April 2013, About 13 years ago
David
Good point common sense definition – yours is not waste you are recycling!!
Waste is when it ends up out of your possession i.e. dumped by you or another party on your behalf