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Skip Permits in Ashington
Ashington is covered by Northumberland County Council. If your skip has to go on the public highway, it needs a permit from the council. Permits are only issued to skip companies, so we arrange it for you.
| Who applies | The skip or container owner, on behalf of the hirer. Permits are not issued to members of the public. |
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| Fee | £27 per skip, paid at the point of application. A fast track application costs £50. |
| How long it lasts | 14 days. The skip can be swapped as often as needed within that period. |
| Notice needed | At least five working days for a new application and two working days for a renewal. Fast track is for jobs that cannot meet those notice periods. |
| Where it can go | The highway includes the road, verge and footway. Skips cannot usually go on the footway unless the council agrees in advance. |
| No permit | A skip placed without a permit is charged at £125 per 14 days, then a new £27 licence is needed. |
| On your drive | No permit needed on private land. Tell us at booking. |
Many of Ashington's colliery terraces have narrow back lanes and no off road parking, so check access before the lorry arrives. Tell us at booking where the skip will sit and we will confirm whether a permit is needed.
Ashington Household Waste Recovery Centre
Ashington has its own council tip at North Seaton, run by Northumberland County Council.
| Site | North Seaton Household Waste Recovery Centre, Castle Island Way, Ashington NE63 0XL. |
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| Opening hours | 7 days a week. 8am to 7:30pm from 1 April to 31 October, and 8am to 6pm from 1 November to 31 March. Closed Christmas Day and New Year's Day. |
| Who can use it | Northumberland residents only. Businesses and landlords cannot use it, and there is no pedestrian access. |
| DIY permit | Free, and needed for DIY waste such as rubble, bricks, soil, plasterboard, tiles, sinks and toilets. Each permit covers up to 100 litres, roughly two rubble sacks or six builders' buckets. Book at least 24 hours ahead. |
| Vans and trailers | Vans, pick ups and trailers over 5ft need a free large vehicle permit, up to 12 a year. No vehicles over 3.5 tonnes, flatbeds, tippers, box vans or trailers over 3m. |
| Charges | Waste over the permit limit is charged. £2.75 per bag or sheet, or by load, from £16.50 for a full car to £110 for a full Transit van. Card only. |
| Trade waste | Not accepted at any site. |
| Phone | 0345 600 6400. |
A skip saves you the permits, the 100 litre limit and the pay as you throw charges, and takes trade and bulky waste that the tip refuses. Pick a size from our guide below and we will deliver it to your door.
Skip hire FAQs.
We provide cheap, local and reliable domestic skip hire in Ashington 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!
Choose your skip size in Ashington
Not sure which size you need? Compare dimensions, capacity and typical uses — every size below is available in Ashington.
Local area guide
Skip hire in Ashington
Ashington is a town in Northumberland, sitting on the River Wansbeck around 15 miles north of Newcastle, with a population of around 28,000. It was a farming hamlet of a few dozen people until 1867, when the Ashington Coal Company sank its first pit, and within fifty years the town had grown into what was often described as the largest mining village in the world. The colliery rows built to house the workforce ran in long parallel terraces across the site, and at its peak the Ashington complex employed many thousands of men underground.
Ashington's mining culture produced something unusual. The Ashington Group, better known as the Pitmen Painters, formed in 1934 when a group of miners enrolled in a Workers' Educational Association art appreciation class and began painting the world they knew. Their work, showing pit life, allotments and the town's streets, gained national and then international recognition, and the story was dramatised by Lee Hall in the play The Pitmen Painters. A permanent collection of their paintings is held at Woodhorn Museum, housed in the former Woodhorn Colliery on the edge of town, whose surviving winding gear and buildings form one of the best-preserved pit heads in the country.
The town is also famous for football. Ashington produced Jackie Milburn, the Newcastle United and England centre forward, and the brothers Bobby and Jack Charlton, both World Cup winners in 1966 — an extraordinary concentration of talent from one small town, rooted in the pit welfare grounds and street football of the colliery rows.
Ashington sits on the A189 spine road with the A1 a short distance west, giving links to Newcastle in around half an hour. The town regained a passenger railway station in 2024 when the Northumberland Line reopened, restoring direct services to Newcastle after nearly sixty years. Neighbouring communities include Newbiggin-by-the-Sea, Bedlington, Blyth, Morpeth and Pegswood, with the Northumberland coast and Druridge Bay a few miles east.
Housing in Ashington is dominated by the colliery terraces, laid out in the long numbered and lettered rows that still define the street pattern, alongside interwar and post-war council-built estates at Hirst and Seaton Hirst and more recent development on the edges. Property is among the most affordable in the north-east, which supports an active buy-to-let and renovation market, and the town has been the focus of sustained regeneration investment since the last pit closed in 1988, including work on the town centre, the Wansbeck riverside and former colliery land.