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Skip Permits in Cramlington
Cramlington 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. Most Cramlington estates have driveways, so many jobs need no permit at all. Tell us at booking. |
Some of the town's estates have tight cul de sacs and shared parking courts, 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.
Cramlington Household Waste Recovery Centre
Cramlington does not have its own council tip. The nearest is Bebside, just outside Blyth, run by Northumberland County Council.
| Nearest site | Bebside Household Waste Recovery Centre, Front Street, Blyth NE24 4HN. |
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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 Cramlington 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 Cramlington
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Local area guide
Skip hire in Cramlington
Cramlington is a town in Northumberland, sitting around eight miles north of Newcastle city centre, with a population of around 30,000. It was a farming and mining village for most of its history — the name appears in twelfth-century records and coal was worked in the area from the seventeenth century — but the modern town dates from 1964, when Cramlington was designated as a privately developed new town by a consortium of builders, one of the few in Britain created without a public development corporation.
That origin gives Cramlington its distinctive layout. The town was built as a series of self-contained residential villages — Beaconhill, Eastfield, Shankhouse, Southfield, Mayfield and others — each with its own centre, separated by green corridors and linked by a network of roads and footpaths designed to keep pedestrians and traffic apart. Manor Walks, the covered shopping centre at the heart of the town, forms the commercial core, and Cramlington grew quickly from a village of around 6,000 people to one of the largest towns in Northumberland.
The area has a significant place in mining history. The Cramlington collieries were the scene of the 1926 derailment of the Flying Scotsman during the General Strike, when striking miners removed a section of track — an event that led to lengthy prison sentences for those involved and remains a well-known episode of the strike. Cramlington also has a notable Second World War survival in the nearby Blyth and Tyne landscape, and the Northumberlandia landform sculpture, a vast reclining female figure built from mining spoil and opened in 2012, sits just outside the town.
Cramlington is very well connected, sitting immediately off the A1 and A19 with Newcastle around 20 minutes away, and Cramlington station on the East Coast Main Line branch offering services to Newcastle and Morpeth. Newcastle Airport is a short drive west. The town has a substantial employment base of its own, with large pharmaceutical, manufacturing and distribution operations on its industrial estates, and Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first purpose-built hospital of its kind in England, opened here in 2015.
Housing in Cramlington is overwhelmingly a product of the new town programme, with large volumes of 1960s to 1980s estate housing across the residential villages, alongside older property in the original village core and at East and West Cramlington, and substantial modern development on the edges at Northburn, Beaconhill and the newer estates east of the A1. Much of that original stock is now half a century old and reaching the point of significant refurbishment, while the town's Newcastle commuting position keeps demand and housebuilding activity strong.