Skip hire in Amble, made simple
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01665-550001Skip hire FAQs.
If your skip is placed on a public road in Amble, you’ll need a permit from Northumberland County Council — currently £27. We arrange the permit for you and add it to your price. If the skip sits on your own driveway or private land, no permit is needed.
The nearest household waste recycling centre to Amble is Alnwick Household Waste Recovery Centre. It’s handy for small loads you’d rather take yourself — but for anything more than a car-boot’s worth, a skip saves you the trips and the sorting.
Skip hire in Amble starts from £189 for a 2 yard skip, ex VAT. Your exact price depends on the size you need, what you’re clearing and where the skip goes — see our prices or get a fast, no-obligation quote. Any council permit fee (see above) is added separately.
See our full skip hire FAQs for skip sizes, filling limits, hire periods, lorry access and what you can and can’t put in a skip.
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With more than 25years of trading history we have continuously developed the services we are now able to provide on a nationwide basis.
Skip hire in Amble & across Northumberland
We’ve delivered skips across Amble for over 30 years — for homeowners clearing out, tradespeople on site, and businesses managing regular waste. Fast delivery throughout the NE65 postcode area, with a local team you can actually get on the phone.
Skip sizes available in Amble
Do I need a permit?
If the skip goes on a public road, pavement or verge in Amble you’ll need a permit from Northumberland County Council. On your own driveway or land, no permit is needed. We arrange council permits for you as part of the booking.
Areas we cover near Amble
Amble household waste recycling centre
Prefer to drop off smaller amounts yourself? Your nearest tip is:
- Alnwick Household Waste Recovery Centre — at Lionheart Enterprise Park, Alnwick (the nearest centre to Amble) · NE66 2HT
Alnwick is a drive up the coast, so for a house clearance or building job in Amble a skip on site is far less hassle.
Why choose Select A Skip in Amble?
- 30+ years’ skip & waste experience
- 1,100+ licensed, vetted suppliers
- Domestic, trade & commercial welcome
- Next-day delivery in most NE65 postcodes
- Council permits handled for you
- Transparent pricing, no hidden charges
Choose your skip size in Amble
Not sure which size you need? Compare dimensions, capacity and typical uses — every size below is available in Amble.
Local area guide
Skip hire in Amble
Amble is a coastal town in Northumberland, sitting at the mouth of the River Coquet around 30 miles north of Newcastle, with a population of around 6,000. It was a small fishing settlement until the mid-nineteenth century, when the harbour was developed to export coal from the Northumberland pits at Radcliffe, Broomhill and Hauxley. The town grew rapidly around that trade, and for a century Amble was a busy coal port with its own railway branch. When the collieries closed the harbour turned back to fishing and, more recently, to leisure sailing and tourism.
Amble is known as the Friendliest Port, a title said to originate from a message sent by the town to the liner RMS Mauretania as she passed on her final voyage to the breakers in 1935 — "still the finest ship on the seas" — to which the ship replied thanking "the last and friendliest port in England". The harbour remains at the centre of town life, with a working fishing fleet, a marina, and the Harbour Village of small timber pods housing craft businesses and food producers that has become a significant draw.
Coquet Island lies a mile offshore, an RSPB reserve holding internationally important colonies of puffins, terns and the UK's entire breeding population of roseate terns, Britain's rarest seabird. Boat trips run from the harbour round the island through the season. Just upriver stands Warkworth, with its dramatic Norman castle — a Percy stronghold and a setting in Shakespeare's Henry IV — and the hermitage cut into the rock beside the Coquet. Druridge Bay stretches south from the town, a long sweep of sand backed by dunes and country parks created on reclaimed opencast land.
Amble sits on the A1068 with the A1 a few miles inland, giving road links to Newcastle in around 45 minutes and north to Alnwick and Berwick. The town has no station, though Widdrington and Alnmouth are nearby on the East Coast Main Line, and the reopened Northumberland Line has improved rail access along the coast. Neighbouring settlements include Warkworth, Hauxley, Togston, Broomhill and Alnmouth, with the Northumberland Coast National Landscape running north.
Housing in Amble is largely modest and traditional, with Victorian terraces built for the harbour and colliery workforce across the town centre and Newburgh Street, alongside interwar and post-war housing, council-built estates, and modern development on the western and southern edges. Property is affordable compared with the Northumberland coast further north around Alnmouth and Bamburgh, though the town's regeneration and its harbour setting have drawn increasing interest from second-home buyers and retirees, and the holiday-let and caravan sector along Druridge Bay is a significant part of the local economy.