Waste out, licence handled · All 32 London boroughs
Skip Hire in London
Skip supply, permits and licensed waste removal as part of the build.
Completed exterior
Completed exterior building work on a London houseWhat we do
A skip on the highway needs a permit from the borough, and the permit is in the contractor's name, not yours. We arrange the skip, the permit, the lighting and the licensed disposal — and we keep the waste transfer notes.
Included as standard
- Skip supply in all standard sizes
- Borough skip permits and highway licences
- Wait-and-load and grab lorry options
- Licensed waste carrier disposal
- Waste transfer notes retained for your records
- Site clearance and strip-out removal
- Typical timescale
- Next-day in most boroughs
- Coverage
- 32 boroughs
- Payment
- In arrears
- Trading since
- 2008
Permits and duty of care
A skip standing on the public highway needs a permit from the borough, issued to a licensed operator, with the skip lit and marked at night. A skip entirely on private land does not — often the cheaper route where the driveway allows it.
Construction waste is subject to a statutory duty of care. It must be transferred to a registered waste carrier, and waste transfer notes kept as a record of where it went. We retain those records, which matters if fly-tipped waste is ever traced back to its origin.
Waste is also increasingly segregated rather than mixed: plasterboard in particular cannot be landfilled with general waste, and separating it at source is cheaper than paying to have it sorted later.
Where a job is genuinely tight for space, a wait-and-load skip or a grab lorry avoids a standing skip and the permit that goes with it.
The limits above are the national permitted-development rules for England. Your borough may restrict them further through a conservation area or an Article 4 direction — we confirm the position for your address in writing before quoting.
Our work
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Answers
Skip Hire — common questions
Do I need planning permission for skip hire in London?
It depends on the property type and what is proposed. Many single-storey rear extensions and loft conversions fall under permitted development, but those rights do not apply to flats and are restricted in conservation areas or where an Article 4 direction applies. We check the planning position for your specific address before quoting, and tell you in writing which route applies.
How do you price the work?
From a site survey, written up as a fixed and itemised scope before any deposit is discussed. If something genuinely unforeseen appears once work is opened up, it is priced and agreed in writing before we continue — never added to the final invoice after the fact.
When do I pay?
In arrears of work completed. You pay for work that has been done and inspected, not for work that has been promised. This has been how the company operates since 2008.
Do you handle Party Wall notices?
Yes, where the work requires them. Under the Party Wall etc. Act 1996, notifiable work on a shared wall needs 2 months written notice to the adjoining owner, while excavation near a neighbouring structure and building at the line of junction need 1 month. We serve the notices and manage the award process as part of the job.
Will I get certificates at the end?
Yes. Electrical work is tested and certificated under Part P, and building control issues a completion certificate where an application was required. You receive the handover pack — it is what a buyer's solicitor will ask for when you eventually sell.
How long will it take?
It depends entirely on scope, and we give a programme with the written quote rather than a guess on the phone. What we will not do is start a job we cannot resource, which is the usual reason a build stalls halfway through.
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