Skip hire in Cheltenham, made simple
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We’ve delivered skips across Cheltenham for over 30 years — for homeowners clearing out, tradespeople on site, and businesses managing regular waste. Fast delivery throughout the GL postcode area, with a local team you can actually get on the phone.
Skip sizes available in Cheltenham
Do I need a permit?
A skip on your driveway or private land needs no permit. For a public road in Cheltenham, a permit is required from Gloucestershire County Council — we arrange it for you as part of the booking.
Areas we cover near Cheltenham
Cheltenham household waste recycling centres
Prefer to drop off smaller amounts yourself? These are the council tips serving Cheltenham:
- Wingmoor Farm Recycling Centre — Bishops Cleeve, Cheltenham (half a mile west of Bishops Cleeve on the road to Stoke Orchard). Open 7 days a week — the only Gloucestershire site open every day
Note: The Swindon Road site in Cheltenham is currently closed pending a review. Booking is required for all Gloucestershire recycling centres — visit gloucestershirerecycles.com. No commercial waste accepted.
Why choose Select A Skip in Cheltenham?
- 30+ years’ skip & waste experience
- 1,100+ licensed, vetted suppliers
- Domestic, trade & commercial welcome
- Next-day delivery in most GL postcodes
- Council permits handled for you
- Transparent pricing, no hidden charges
Skip hire FAQs.
We provide cheap, local and reliable domestic skip hire in Cheltenham 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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With more than 25years of trading history we have continuously developed the services we are now able to provide on a nationwide basis.
Choose your skip size in Cheltenham
Not sure which size you need? Compare dimensions, capacity and typical uses — every size below is available in Cheltenham.
Local area guide
Skip hire in Cheltenham
Cheltenham is a spa town in Gloucestershire, sitting at the foot of the Cotswold escarpment around eight miles east of Gloucester, with a population of around 118,000. It was a modest market town until 1716, when pigeons were noticed pecking at salt deposits in a field and a mineral spring was discovered. George III's visit in 1788 with the royal family made Cheltenham fashionable overnight, and the town was rebuilt over the following fifty years as one of the most complete Regency towns in England.
That period gave Cheltenham its architecture: the Promenade with its wide tree-lined avenue, Montpellier with its caryatid-fronted shops, Lansdown Crescent, the Pittville Pump Room of 1830 — the finest surviving Regency spa building in the country — and street after street of stuccoed terraces with elaborate ironwork balconies. The town has one of the largest concentrations of listed Regency buildings anywhere, and the whole central area is covered by conservation designations.
Cheltenham is a town of festivals. The Cheltenham Literature Festival, founded in 1949, is the oldest of its kind in the world, and the town also hosts major festivals of music, jazz, science and food. Cheltenham Racecourse at Prestbury Park is the home of National Hunt racing, and the Cheltenham Festival each March — culminating in the Gold Cup — is one of the great events in the British sporting calendar, drawing over 250,000 people across four days. GCHQ, the government's signals intelligence agency, has been based in Cheltenham since 1952 and is by some distance the town's largest employer, housed in the circular building known locally as the Doughnut.
The town sits on the M5 at junctions 10 and 11, with the A40 and A46 running through, and Cheltenham Spa station offers services to London Paddington, Birmingham and Bristol. The Cotswolds National Landscape begins immediately east, with Cleeve Hill — the highest point in the Cotswolds — rising above the town. Neighbouring communities include Charlton Kings, Prestbury, Leckhampton, Bishop's Cleeve, Winchcombe and Gloucester.
Housing in Cheltenham is dominated by its Regency legacy, with grand stuccoed terraces and villas across Montpellier, Lansdown, Pittville and Tivoli — many long since converted into flats and apartments — alongside Victorian terraces in St Paul's and Whaddon, interwar and post-war estates at Hesters Way and Benhall, and modern development on the northern and western edges. Property values are among the highest in the west of England, and the listed and conservation status of so much of the town means work on its period stock is tightly controlled.