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We provide cheap, local and reliable domestic skip hire in Haverhill 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 Haverhill
Haverhill is a market town in Suffolk, sitting close to the Essex and Cambridgeshire borders around 17 miles south-east of Cambridge, with a population of around 28,000. It is one of the oldest recorded settlements in the area, appearing in the Domesday Book, and it grew as a market town with a charter dating from the thirteenth century. For centuries it was a modest agricultural centre, and it later developed a significant textile industry — Gurteen & Sons, founded in 1784, has made clothing in the town for over two centuries and is one of the oldest family firms in Britain still trading on its original site.
Much of the old town was destroyed by a devastating fire in 1665, which swept through the timber-framed buildings and left little of the medieval fabric standing. The town was rebuilt, and St Mary's Church and the Victorian frontages along the High Street date largely from the recovery and the later industrial period. The Gurteen factory buildings remain a defining presence in the town centre.
Haverhill's modern character was set from 1958, when it was designated a London overspill town under an agreement with the Greater London Council. Families from east London were rehoused here in large numbers, and the population grew from around 5,000 to several times that within two decades, with extensive new estates laid out around the old core and industrial units built to provide employment. That rapid expansion, and the strong east London connection it created, still shapes the town's identity and accent.
The surrounding countryside is classic west Suffolk and north Essex — rolling arable farmland with villages of timber-framed and colour-washed houses. Kedington, Withersfield, Steeple Bumpstead and Clare are all close by, and Clare Castle Country Park and the Stour Valley lie a short distance south.
Haverhill sits on the A1307 and A143, with Cambridge around 30 minutes away and the M11 to the west. The town lost its two railway stations in the 1960s and remains one of the larger English towns without a station, though reinstating a rail link to Cambridge has been a long-running local campaign. Housing is dominated by the overspill era, with extensive 1960s and 1970s estates at Chalkstone, Clements and Parkway, alongside older property around the High Street and Queen Street, and very substantial modern development at Great Wilsey Park and on the town's northern edge, driven by Haverhill's position within the Cambridge economic area.