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Skip Permits in Hartlepool
Hartlepool Borough Council licenses skips on its roads. A skip on your driveway or other private land doesn't need a licence. If it has to go on the road, the skip hire company is responsible for the licence, and we apply for it on your behalf.
| Council | Hartlepool Borough Council |
|---|---|
| Licence cost | £15 per skip for 14 days (from 1 April 2026) |
| Extensions | £15 for each further 14 days |
| Notice needed | 3 working days where possible |
| Maximum skip size on the road | 8 cubic yards, unless approved in advance |
| Lighting and marking | Reflective strips, coned corners with reflective sleeves, and lights on busier roads, bus routes and junctions |
| Retrospective licence | £50 |
| Applied for by | The skip company, with at least £2 million public liability cover (that's us) |
Hartlepool caps road skips at 8 yards, so for a bigger clearance we'll either place the skip on your drive or split the job. Tell us where it will go when you ask for a quote.
Hartlepool Recycling Centre
Hartlepool's Household Waste Recycling Centre is on Burn Road. It's run by Hartlepool Borough Council and is for Hartlepool residents' household waste only.
| Address | Burn Road, Hartlepool TS25 1PL |
|---|---|
| Open | Wednesday to Sunday only |
| Hours | 9am to 6pm (1 April to 31 October), 9am to 4pm (1 November to 31 March). Short closures around 10.30am and 2.30pm |
| Booking | Every visit must be booked in advance |
| On arrival | Show photo ID and proof of address and declare any chargeable waste |
| Vehicles | Cars, vans under 2m high and trailers up to 2.4m. No commercial or sign written vehicles |
| Free DIY allowance | Once a week, either 1 item up to 2000 x 750 x 700mm or up to 100 litres (two 50 litre bags) |
| Charges over the allowance | Soil, hardcore and rubble £3 per 25kg bag. Plasterboard £6. Asbestos £7.20 per bag. Tyres £3.20 each |
The tip is shut on Mondays and Tuesdays, every visit has to be booked, and you can only bring two bags of DIY waste a week for free. For a kitchen, bathroom or garden job, a skip on the drive is far easier.
Skip hire FAQs.
We provide cheap, local and reliable domestic skip hire in Hartlepool 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 Hartlepool
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Local area guide
Skip hire in Hartlepool
Hartlepool is a coastal town in County Durham, sitting on a headland jutting into the North Sea around 20 miles south-east of Durham, with a population of around 90,000. Its origins lie in the monastery founded on the headland in 640 by St Hieu, later led by St Hilda before she moved to Whitby — one of the earliest Christian foundations in Northumbria. The medieval town grew around that headland as the port of the Bishops of Durham, and St Hilda's Church, built around 1190, still dominates the Headland skyline.
Hartlepool has the most complete medieval town walls in the north-east, built in the fourteenth century against Scottish raids, with the Sandwell Gate surviving intact on the seafront. The town's harbour made it a target: on 16 December 1914 German battlecruisers shelled Hartlepool, Whitby and Scarborough, killing 130 people in Hartlepool alone — the first civilians killed on British soil by enemy action in the First World War, and the Heugh Battery on the Headland, which returned fire, is the only First World War battlefield in Britain.
The town is inescapably associated with the legend of the Hartlepool monkey. During the Napoleonic Wars, the story goes, a French ship was wrecked off the coast and the only survivor was the ship's monkey, dressed in a uniform; the townspeople, having never seen a Frenchman or a monkey, tried it as a spy and hanged it on the beach. The tale is almost certainly apocryphal but has been thoroughly adopted — Hartlepool United's mascot is H'Angus the Monkey, and a man in the costume was elected mayor of the town three times.
Hartlepool grew enormously in the nineteenth century as West Hartlepool, a new port built to export Durham coal, and the two towns merged in 1967. Shipbuilding and steel followed. The National Museum of the Royal Navy's northern site on the restored quay holds HMS Trincomalee, launched in 1817 and the oldest British warship still afloat.
Hartlepool sits on the A19 and A179, with Hartlepool station on the Durham Coast Line giving services to Newcastle, Middlesbrough and Sunderland. Housing ranges from Georgian and Victorian property on the Headland to dense Victorian terraces across West Hartlepool built for the dock and steel workforce, interwar and post-war estates at Owton Manor and Rift House, and modern development around the marina and the town's western edges. Property is among the most affordable in England, and the marina and waterfront have been the focus of sustained regeneration.