People who have raised beds are crying out for soil and would rip your hand off for decent garden soil, it must cost a fortune to fill a few raised beds especially if they are a decent depth. They might even dig it up for you load it and take it away.
Regarding charges for rubbish. We have to pay about £50 per year for garden waste removal, but there is no charge for use of the recycling centre / tip. As others have said, if they start charging they will end up with even more fly tipping.
well at the moment im digging some tree roots hence how deep the whole is, but i plan on 90% of it and putting the other 10% at the other end of the garden. I plan on putting 2 blackcurrent plants and some strawbeerys in aswell
Also bear in mind that when you dig an area over the soil "fluffs up" quite a bit - you can never quite fill a hole back up with the soil that you have removed from it. This will settle back down over time, so likely your new bed is a little higher than the surroundings at the moment, but I wouldn't be removing any soil from there.
I can't really see what's going on there but it looks as if the path/slabs could be at a lower level than the grass. If it is, and it's more than maybe six or eight inches, the tree roots were probably holding the slope together.
If you're making the bed level with the grass you might find that you need something like a low wall or sleepers to stop the soil washing down onto the slab area when it rains. If you make it level with the path you'd need something similar to stop the grass area washing down, and you'd need to make sure what's in the bed is topsoil not subsoil (which is infertile).
Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
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We've got such a small garden that there just isn't space to be storing large amounts of soil.
Otherwise I would have as I'm sure it would get used eventually.
what will you replace your top soil with?