Building Act 1984

23 Provision of facilities for refuse

(1) Where plans for the erection or extension of a building are, in accordance with building regulations, deposited with a local authority, the local authority shall reject the plans unless it is shown to them that satisfactory means of access from the building to a street for the purpose of the removal of refuse, and satisfactory means of storing refuse for removal, can, and will, be provided.

(2) Any question arising under subsection (1) above between a local authority and the person by whom, or on whose behalf, plans are deposited as to whether a means of access or of storing refuse proposed to be provided can be provided and ought to be accepted by the authority as satisfactory may on the application of that person be determined by a magistrates' court.

(3) It is unlawful for any person except with the consent of the local authority to close or obstruct the means of access by which refuse or faecal matter is removed from a building, and the local authority in giving their consent may impose such conditions as they think fit with respect to the improvement of an alternative means of access or the substitution of other means of access.

(4) A person who contravenes subsection (3) above is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 4 on the standard scale.