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Skip Permits in Aberystwyth
Aberystwyth is in Ceredigion, and Ceredigion County Council issues skip permits for the roads. A skip on your driveway or other private land doesn't need one. If it has to go on the road, it's the skip company's job to apply, not yours or your builder's, and we arrange that for you.
| Council | Ceredigion County Council (highways) |
|---|---|
| Permit cost | £102.00 |
| Notice needed | A minimum of 10 days to process the application |
| Permit length | Up to 28 days |
| Number of skips | Only one skip on the road at a time, unless there are exceptional circumstances |
| Location | A council inspector has to approve the position first, to make sure it's safe and won't obstruct traffic |
| Skip placed without permission | £170.00 retrospective charge |
| Applied for by | The skip company, with public liability cover of at least £6 million. We sort this for you |
Because an inspector signs off the position, it helps to tell us about parking and access when you ask for a quote. If your home doesn't have a drive, we'll arrange the permit and sort out where the skip can sit.
Aberystwyth Recycling Centre
The town's tip is the Aberystwyth household waste site on Glanyrafon Industrial Estate at Llanbadarn Fawr. It's run by Ceredigion County Council and works on a walk in basis, so there's nothing to book for a car.
| Address | Glanyrafon Industrial Estate, Llanbadarn Fawr, Aberystwyth SY23 3JQ |
|---|---|
| Opening hours | Monday to Friday 9am to 5pm. Saturday, Sunday and bank holidays 10am to 3pm. Closed Christmas Day, New Year's Day and Good Friday |
| Proof of address | Take your driving licence or a utility bill with you |
| Vans and trailers | A day permit is needed for medium vans such as a Transit Custom, Vivaro or Trafic, for hire vans in that size and for trailers bigger than 8ft x 4ft. You get one permit per household per month and must ask for it at least one full working day before your visit |
With limits on van permits and short weekend hours, a tip run for a bigger job takes planning. For a kitchen or bathroom refit, a garden clearance or clearing out a house, a skip on your drive is usually the simpler option.
Skip hire FAQs.
We provide cheap, local and reliable domestic skip hire in Aberystwyth and within a 30 mile radius.
It’s not just a case of how much waste you have! You also need to consider how much room you have on your site and will then need to think about the type of waste you will be disposing of. For example if the waste is heavy (e.g. soil/brick/rubble) then you will be restricted as to how large a skip you can have.
When only a single skip is expected, we strongly believe that it’s better to hire a skip that you may not quite fill, as opposed to ordering a skip which ends up being too small meaning a second skip is then required as a result. In other words it’s better to overestimate than underestimate!
When filling a skip it can only be loaded up to the level of the actual skip itself.
It is important that your site foreman and operatives are aware of this as it is actually against the law for drivers to carry over loaded skips on the highways. Likewise, using boards around the skip in an attempt to increase it’s capacity (known in the trade as ‘greedy boards’) is illegal.
If a driver arrives on site to find an overloaded skip they are likely to turn away and leave without the skip, thus potentially incurring additional transport charges.
Though we try to be as flexible with hire periods as possible, as a general rule the maximum hire period is 7 days.
Of course should your site be an ongoing one where numerous skips are required and exchanged on a regular basis then there is nothing to worry about. If however, you require a skip that is likely to be needed for more than 7 days without exchanges, we request you inform us at the time of ordering as a rental charge may be applicable.
Yes. Though any skip that needs to be sited on a public highway, pavement or council owned verge, first requires permission from the local authority responsible.
Though the charges involved and the length of time it takes an application to be processed varies from council to council, in the vast majority of cases we can arrange the required permit on your behalf. Depending on the local authority in question, application periods can be anything from ‘same day’ to 4 weeks, so when you know that a permit is likely to be required on an upcoming site it is vital that you give us as much notice as possible to avoid any unnecessary delays.
Please also note that as the hirer, the lighting and coning of the skip whilst it is placed on public land is your responsibility, though we are usually able to arrange for the hire of these items on your behalf too.
A standard skip or roll-on-off vehicle usually requires a minimum of 10ft (3.3m) width and approximately 13ft (4m) headroom to safely gain access to a site. If your site access falls a little below these requirements we are able to (in most areas) arrange for smaller skips (depending on waste type) to be delivered on smaller lorries.
If you are in any doubt about the access to your sites, we are here to help, so just ask!
There are certain types of waste that cannot be placed in general waste skips under any circumstances.
Examples of such waste types include (but are not limited to): asbestos, fridges, freezers, batteries, tyres, gas cannisters, paint tins, food waste, fluorescent tubes, liquids, TV sets, computer monitors, plasterboard, electrical items (WEEE), mattresses, tree stumps, tree roots, carpet, vinyl, astroturf, rubber matting & roof felt.
It is vital that you always inform us of exactly what your are intending to dispose of at the time of ordering!
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Local area guide
Skip hire in Aberystwyth
Aberystwyth is a university and seaside town in Ceredigion, sitting on Cardigan Bay where the Rheidol and Ystwyth rivers meet the sea, with a population of around 16,000 which roughly doubles in term time. It grew around a castle built by Edward I in 1277 as part of his ring of fortresses across Wales, later held and slighted during the Civil War, whose ruins still stand on the headland above the promenade. The town developed as a port and lead-mining centre before the railway arrived in 1864 and turned it into the principal resort of the Welsh coast, sometimes called the Biarritz of Wales.
Aberystwyth is above all a centre of Welsh national institutions. The University College of Wales, founded here in 1872, was the first university institution in Wales, and its original home — the extraordinary Gothic Old College on the seafront, begun as a hotel and never completed as one — is one of the most distinctive buildings in the country. The National Library of Wales, opened in 1916 on the hill above town, is one of the UK's six legal deposit libraries and holds the largest collection of Welsh material anywhere. The town is one of the strongest Welsh-speaking urban centres in the country, and a hub for Welsh-language media and publishing.
The seafront is the town's defining feature, a long curve of Victorian and Edwardian terraces running from the castle round to Constitution Hill, where the Aberystwyth Cliff Railway — the longest electric funicular in Britain, opened in 1896 — carries visitors up to a camera obscura and views along the bay. The Royal Pier, opened in 1865, was the first pleasure pier built in Wales. Each winter the town's promenade hosts one of the great wildlife spectacles in Britain, when tens of thousands of starlings roost beneath the pier and murmurate over the bay at dusk.
Aberystwyth is the transport hub for mid Wales, with the A44 running east to Llangurig and the Midlands and the A487 along the coast, and Aberystwyth station terminating the Cambrian Line with services to Machynlleth, Shrewsbury and Birmingham. The Vale of Rheidol Railway, a narrow-gauge steam line, runs inland to Devil's Bridge. Surrounding communities include Llanbadarn Fawr, Penparcau, Waun Fawr, Clarach, Borth and Bow Street, with the Cambrian Mountains rising immediately inland.
Housing in Aberystwyth is dominated by Victorian and Edwardian terraces, with the grand seafront rows and the streets climbing behind them, alongside older property around the harbour and Great Darkgate Street, interwar and post-war housing at Penparcau and Waun Fawr, and modern development on the edges and at the university's Penglais campus. The student population supports one of the highest concentrations of HMOs in Wales, with the town's housing market shaped heavily by the academic year, and the exposed seafront position means the older stock carries a constant maintenance burden from salt, wind and weather.