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We’ve delivered skips across Bradford for over 30 years — for homeowners clearing out, tradespeople on site, and businesses managing regular waste. Fast delivery throughout the BD postcode area, with a local team you can actually get on the phone.
Skip sizes available in Bradford
Do I need a permit?
A skip on your driveway or private land needs no permit. For a public road in Bradford, a permit is required from Bradford Metropolitan District Council — we arrange it for you as part of the booking.
Areas we cover near Bradford
Bradford household waste recycling centres
Prefer to drop off smaller amounts yourself? These are the council tips serving Bradford:
- Bowling Back Lane HWRC — Bowling Back Lane, Bradford, BD4 8SZ. Main site accepting full range of waste
- Dealburn Road HWRC — Low Moor, Bradford
- Midland Road HWRC — Bradford city centre
A valid resident permit is required for all Bradford HWRCs — apply via Bradford Council. No booking needed for cars with a permit. Vans need a separate van permit. Sites closed on bank holidays. No commercial waste accepted.
Why choose Select A Skip in Bradford?
- 30+ years’ skip & waste experience
- 1,100+ licensed, vetted suppliers
- Domestic, trade & commercial welcome
- Next-day delivery in most BD postcodes
- Council permits handled for you
- Transparent pricing, no hidden charges
Skip Permits In Bradford
If your skip has to go on the road in Bradford, it needs a skip licence from City of Bradford Council. Only registered skip companies can apply, so we arrange it for you.
| Who applies | The skip company, not the customer. Firms must be registered with the council and renew every year. |
|---|---|
| Fee | The council page does not list the licence fee. We confirm the cost at booking. |
| How long it lasts | Normally 14 working days. It is 5 working days in the city centre and on roads under 4.5m wide kerb to kerb, and 7 working days on certain West Yorkshire Key Route Network roads. |
| Notice needed | At least one day before the skip is placed. For weekend delivery, the request must be in by the Friday before. |
| Skip rules | Parallel to the kerb, lit in the dark, marked with the owner's name and a phone number or address, and removed promptly once full. Not allowed in loading bans, bus stop clearways, bus lanes, on double yellow lines or on zigzags at crossings. Plywood is needed on block paving or flagged areas. |
| City centre | Skips must be closed and lockable, delivered before 8am, not removed until after 5:30pm, and the location agreed in writing. |
| No licence | The council can remove an illegal skip and charge the skip company. Rules do not apply to skips on private land. |
| On your drive | No licence needed on private land. Tell us at booking. |
Tell us at booking where the skip will sit and we will confirm whether a licence is needed.
Bradford Household Waste Recycling Centres
Bradford Council runs several household waste sites. Bowling Back Lane is the main site for Bradford itself.
| Site | Bowling Back Lane, Bradford BD4 8SZ. |
|---|---|
| Opening hours | Monday to Friday 8am to 4:45pm (May to September) or 9am to 4:45pm (October to April). Saturday 9am to 3:45pm. Sunday 10am to 3:45pm. Hours can change at Christmas and bank holidays. |
| Resident permit | Cars and non-commercial vehicles need a household permit. Two cars can be registered per household. |
| Vans and trailers | Short wheelbase, low roof vans (up to 3 tonnes and 1.8m high) and single axle trailers (up to 750kg) need a large capacity vehicle permit. It allows 12 visits a year, at Bowling Back Lane or Keighley only. |
| DIY and rubble | Free DIY disposal is one visit per household per week, with either two 50 litre bags or buckets of rubble or one item up to 200cm by 75cm. Extra volumes are charged, with brick, rubble and soil from £10.50 at the weighbridge. Plasterboard is charged from £10.50 and capped at two 50 litre bags a week. |
| Trade waste | Not permitted at any site. It is accepted only at Bowling Back Lane and Keighley, from a minimum charge of £18. This includes waste from rental property clean-ups. |
| Asbestos | Listed as accepted at Bowling Back Lane. Check the council's rules before you go. |
| Other sites | Keighley, Midland Road, Dealburn Road and Dowley Gap. Check the council site for each one's hours and rules. |
A skip saves you the permits, the weekly limits and the repeat trips, 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 Bradford 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!
Local area guide
Skip hire in Bradford
Bradford is a city in West Yorkshire, sitting in a bowl in the Pennine foothills around nine miles west of Leeds, with a population of around 350,000 in the city itself and over 540,000 in the wider district. It was a modest market town until the Industrial Revolution, when abundant soft water, coal and iron ore made it the wool capital of the world — by the late nineteenth century Bradford was processing the majority of Britain's wool and was known as Worstedopolis. That wealth drew migrant communities from Germany, Ireland and later South Asia, giving the city one of the most diverse populations in the country. Bradford was named UK City of Culture for 2025.
Bradford's mill wealth left an extraordinary architectural legacy. Little Germany, built by the city's wool merchants, is one of the best-preserved Victorian commercial districts in Britain, with 55 listed buildings in a few streets. Saltaire, the model village built by Titus Salt on the edge of the city, is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, with Salts Mill now housing a major David Hockney collection. Other landmarks include the Italianate City Hall, the Wool Exchange, the Alhambra Theatre and the National Science and Media Museum. Bradford was the world's first UNESCO City of Film, and the moorland around Haworth and the Brontë Parsonage sits just to the west.
Bradford is well connected, with Forster Square and Interchange stations offering services to Leeds in under 20 minutes and on to London, Manchester and Skipton, and the M606 linking directly to the M62. Leeds Bradford Airport lies a few miles north-east. The district takes in Shipley, Bingley, Keighley, Ilkley and Baildon in the Aire Valley, along with the city neighbourhoods of Manningham, Great Horton, Heaton, Bolton, Idle, Thornton, Wibsey and Little Horton.
Housing across Bradford is dominated by stone-built terraces and back-to-backs built for the mill workforce, concentrated in Manningham, Great Horton, Little Horton and Girlington, alongside substantial Victorian villas in Heaton and along Manningham Lane, interwar semis in Idle and Wibsey, and post-war estates at Buttershaw, Holme Wood and Canterbury. Property is among the most affordable in the north, which supports a very active market in renovation and buy-to-let refurbishment, and the district's stone housing generates a steady flow of re-roofs, stonework repairs, rewires and full internal refurbishments.
That volume of renovation work keeps skip hire in Bradford in constant demand, whether it's a full terrace refurbishment in Great Horton, a stone villa renovation in Heaton, a rental refit in Manningham, a garden clearance in Baildon or a mill or unit strip-out on one of the industrial sites around Laisterdyke or Euroway. Skips are available in a range of sizes to suit everything from a small domestic clear-out to a large building project, and because the terraced and back-to-back streets have no off-road parking — and many are steeply graded on the valley sides — a permit from Bradford Council will often be needed where the skip has to sit on the road, and access is worth thinking through before the job starts. Booking a few days ahead helps secure the right size and allows time for any permit to be arranged.
Choose your skip size in Bradford
Not sure which size you need? Compare dimensions, capacity and typical uses — every size below is available in Bradford.