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01484-490055Skip hire in Huddersfield & across West Yorkshire
We’ve delivered skips across Huddersfield for over 30 years — for homeowners clearing out, tradespeople on site, and businesses managing regular waste. Fast delivery throughout the HD postcode area, with a local team you can actually get on the phone.
Skip sizes available in Huddersfield
Do I need a permit?
A skip on your driveway or private land needs no permit. For a public road in Huddersfield, a permit is required from Kirklees Council — we arrange it for you as part of the booking.
Areas we cover near Huddersfield
Huddersfield household waste recycling centres
Prefer to drop off smaller amounts yourself? These are the council tips serving Huddersfield:
- Emerald Street Household Waste Recycling Centre — Emerald Street, Huddersfield, HD1 6BY. Booking required — slots can be reserved up to 6 days in advance. Check kirklees.gov.uk for current opening hours.
Kirklees operates the site for household waste only — no trade or commercial waste is accepted. You must book a free time slot online at kirklees.gov.uk before visiting, and each household is limited to 12 visits per calendar year. Vans, trailers and larger vehicles need a permit, and proof of Kirklees residency may be requested.
Why choose Select A Skip in Huddersfield?
- 30+ years’ skip & waste experience
- 1,100+ licensed, vetted suppliers
- Domestic, trade & commercial welcome
- Next-day delivery in most HD postcodes
- Council permits handled for you
- Transparent pricing, no hidden charges
Skip hire FAQs.
We provide cheap, local and reliable domestic skip hire in Huddersfield 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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Choose your skip size in Huddersfield
Not sure which size you need? Compare dimensions, capacity and typical uses — every size below is available in Huddersfield.
Local area guide
Skip hire in Huddersfield
Huddersfield is a town in West Yorkshire, sitting where the Colne and Holme valleys meet in the Pennine foothills, with a population of around 145,000. It grew from a market town into one of the great centres of the woollen and worsted industry, and by the nineteenth century Huddersfield cloth — particularly fine worsteds and tweeds — was regarded as the best in the world. The town's mills supplied Savile Row and the international luxury trade, and firms in the Colne Valley still weave cloth for the world's leading tailors.
The Ramsden family, who owned most of the town, controlled its development closely, and the result is an unusually coherent Victorian centre. Huddersfield has more listed buildings than any English town outside London and Bristol relative to its size — around 1,800 in the district — and Sir John Betjeman described the railway station of 1850, with its vast Corinthian portico, as the most splendid station façade in England. The station frontage, St George's Square in front of it and the Lion Buildings form one of the finest Victorian civic ensembles in the country.
The town has a strong radical and sporting history. It was a centre of Luddite activity in 1812, when croppers destroyed the shearing frames threatening their trade, and the killing of the mill owner William Horsfall at Crosland Moor led to executions at York. In 1895 the Rugby Football League was founded at the George Hotel in St George's Square, when twenty-one northern clubs broke away over broken-time payments — the split that created rugby league as a separate code.
The Huddersfield Narrow Canal runs through the town and passes beneath the Pennines through Standedge Tunnel, at three and a quarter miles the longest, deepest and highest canal tunnel in Britain. Castle Hill, crowned by the Victoria Tower and an Iron Age hillfort, is the town's defining landmark, visible for miles. The University of Huddersfield brings a substantial student population.
Huddersfield sits close to the M62 with Huddersfield station giving services to Leeds and Manchester in around half an hour. Housing is dominated by stone, with Victorian terraces running up the valley sides, substantial mill owners' villas in Edgerton — one of the finest Victorian suburbs in the north — interwar semis, post-war estates and modern development, alongside the Pennine villages of the Colne and Holme valleys, including Holmfirth, long familiar from Last of the Summer Wine.