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We provide cheap, local and reliable domestic skip hire in Batley 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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Skip hire in Batley
Batley is a town in West Yorkshire, sitting between Bradford, Leeds and Huddersfield in the Heavy Woollen District, with a population of around 50,000. It grew from a small settlement into a major textile town in the nineteenth century on the back of a single innovation: shoddy. In 1813 Benjamin Law of Batley developed a process for grinding down old woollen rags and reweaving the recovered fibre into new cloth, creating a cheap recycled wool trade that made the town's fortune. Batley became the world centre of the shoddy and mungo industry, importing rags by the shipload from across Europe and beyond.
That trade built the town's imposing Victorian fabric — the mills, the mill owners' villas, and the civic buildings around Market Place, including the Batley Town Hall and the Bagshaw Museum, a Gothic mansion built for a local mill owner and now housing an eclectic collection of Egyptian, Asian and natural history material. Oakwell Hall, an Elizabethan manor house on the edge of town, appears as Fieldhead in Charlotte Brontë's Shirley, and stands in its own country park.
Batley's other claim to fame is the Batley Variety Club, opened in 1967, which improbably brought international stars to a working-class Yorkshire town — Louis Armstrong, Shirley Bassey, Roy Orbison and the Bee Gees all played there, and it was Britain's most successful nightclub outside London for a decade. The town also has a strong rugby league tradition, with Batley Bulldogs playing at Mount Pleasant, one of the oldest grounds in the sport and famous for its notorious slope.
Batley sits close to the M62 with junctions 27 and 28 nearby, and Batley station offers services to Leeds, Huddersfield and Manchester. The town forms part of the Kirklees district along with Dewsbury, Heckmondwike and Cleckheaton, and neighbouring communities include Birstall, Birkenshaw, Gomersal, Staincliffe, Carlinghow and Soothill. Birstall's Junction 27 retail park is one of the largest in the region.
Housing in Batley is dominated by the stone terraces built for the mill workforce, running in rows across the hillsides in Carlinghow, Staincliffe, Purlwell and Batley Carr, alongside substantial stone villas built by mill owners, interwar semis, and post-war and modern estates on the higher ground. The town has a large and long-established South Asian community, particularly of Gujarati Indian and Pakistani heritage, drawn originally by textile work in the 1950s and 60s. Property is among the more affordable in West Yorkshire, and the ageing stone stock generates a steady demand for renovation across the town.