On private property, including your own driveway or a fenced job site, the City publishes no separate container permit. That is the simplest placement and the one we aim for.
Anything in the public street or right-of-way is a different matter. The City's Engineering Division requires an encroachment or excavation permit. Its own wording is broad. A permit is required for all construction work within, or related to the use of, any public street right-of-way. Permits are issued at the public counter on the third floor of City Hall, and the engineering permits page gives 310-412-5333 for the permit engineers.
Four conditions on the application are worth knowing in advance. A permit expires six months after issuance. You must call 72 hours before work starts to schedule an inspection. No-parking signs have to be posted 72 hours before work begins, with parking enforcement contacted so the posting is recorded. And work outside the City's regular inspection hours is charged back to the permit holder as overtime inspection time.
Separately, there is the construction and demolition side. Inglewood requires a Construction and Demolition Diversion Program permit application for covered projects, filed with Public Works on the third floor of City Hall. Covered projects include all demolition work, non-residential remodeling and additions, residential additions and alterations that increase a building's footprint or volume, grading that generates land-clearing debris, and new construction. Compliance is listed as a condition of approval on building and demolition permits, so it is not optional paperwork.
That application asks you to name, material by material, the estimated quantity and who is hauling it. Afterwards you file a final compliance disposal report within 30 days of finishing, under penalty of perjury, together with all original recycling receipts, and monthly reports in the meantime. The City holds a performance security deposit against that, and it says plainly that failure to remit the receipts and documentation may result in forfeiting it.
The practical upshot is that the hauling arrangement and the paperwork have to line up before the job starts. Your account manager will confirm with the City exactly how the rules apply to your address and your project before you commit to a delivery date.