Allhallows, Kent · ME3
Skip hire yard security: risks, requirements and specification
Yards holding skips, vehicles and sometimes scrap or recyclable materials are vulnerable to fly-tipping, unauthorised access and fuel or vehicle theft. This page sets out what a Allhallows skip hire yard should be asking for, and where turnstile and speed gate systems fit into it.
- Sector: skip hire yards
- Lead service: CCTV systems
- Exposure: Overnight and weekends when the yard is unstaffed are the main exposure periods.
Primary risk
Yards holding skips, vehicles and sometimes scrap or recyclable materials are vulnerable to fly-tipping, unauthorised access and fuel or vehicle theft.
First priority
Gate access control or automated barrier integration
Common pitfall
Covering the yard for theft but missing the entrance approach, which is exactly where fly-tipping evidence is most needed.
What the paperwork demands
This is the part that turns a shopping list into a specification.
- Environmental permits for waste handling often set conditions around site security and control of unauthorised deposits
Where the exposure really sits
Yards holding skips, vehicles and sometimes scrap or recyclable materials are vulnerable to fly-tipping, unauthorised access and fuel or vehicle theft.
Exposure window: Overnight and weekends when the yard is unstaffed are the main exposure periods.
The remedial job we get called to
Covering the yard for theft but missing the entrance approach, which is exactly where fly-tipping evidence is most needed.
Items that earn their place
- Gate access control or automated barrier integration
- Restricting entry to authorised hours or vehicles reduces both fly-tipping and theft risk.
- Perimeter camera coverage of the full yard
- Fly-tipping and unauthorised waste deposits are as much a risk here as theft, and both need visual evidence to act on.
Boundaries worth knowing now
Better to hear this before the order than after a claim.
- They control the lane they are fitted in and nothing else, a propped fire exit or an unsupervised goods lift lobby bypasses them entirely.
How turnstile and speed gate systems apply here
Physical barriers in a reception or entrance lobby that only allow one person through per valid credential, so a door release cannot simply be held open for a group behind the person presenting a card.
- Multi-tenant offices where the lobby is shared but the floors above are not
- Sites where staff routinely hold doors open for colleagues and card discipline has stopped being enforceable
The support call this sector makes most: neighbour or privacy complaint about domestic CCTV
Once a system has been in a while, keep cameras lawful and keep the peace is a common reason for a skip hire yard to ring.
Usually it comes down to no signage where footage covers shared space, shared driveways and communal areas need signage.
Before booking anyone, look at the actual recorded field of view, not what you think the camera sees.
Allhallows in practice
Allhallows work tends to cluster near Allhallows-on-Sea holiday park and the Avery Way, where the housing stock is mostly ex-MoD housing and estuary-edge bungalows, and that mix decides where cable can run and where detection earns its place.
An alternative worth weighing up
- Interlocked door pair (airlock)
- One-person-at-a-time passage is required but the aesthetic or space demands of a lane cannot be met.
Allhallows questions we get asked
Skip hire yard security: risks, requirements and specification
Local detail for Allhallows
- Works with Hikvision, Texecom, Pyronix and Paxton equipment
- Speak to an engineer directly on 01634 944161
- Alarms, CCTV, access control and network cabling under one contact
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