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We’ve delivered skips across Ipswich for over 30 years — for homeowners clearing out, tradespeople on site, and businesses managing regular waste. Fast delivery throughout the IP postcode area, with a local team you can actually get on the phone.
Skip sizes available in Ipswich
Do I need a permit?
A skip on your driveway or private land needs no permit. For a public road in Ipswich, a permit is required from Suffolk County Council — we arrange it for you as part of the booking.
Areas we cover near Ipswich
Ipswich household waste recycling centres
Prefer to drop off smaller amounts yourself? These are the council tips serving Ipswich:
- Ipswich Recycling Centre — Portmans Walk (off Sir Alf Ramsey Way), Ipswich IP1 2DW. Open April–September 9am–5pm, October–March 9am–4pm. Run by Suffolk County Council / FCC Environment.
The centre accepts household waste from Suffolk residents only. Some vans, trailers and larger vehicles need a permit – check suffolkrecycling.org.uk before visiting. Note the council has proposed relocating this site to Whittle Road (Hadleigh Road Industrial Estate); the Portmans Walk site remains open until any new site opens, so confirm the current location and hours at suffolkrecycling.org.uk.
Why choose Select A Skip in Ipswich?
- 30+ years’ skip & waste experience
- 1,100+ licensed, vetted suppliers
- Domestic, trade & commercial welcome
- Next-day delivery in most IP postcodes
- Council permits handled for you
- Transparent pricing, no hidden charges
Skip hire FAQs.
We provide cheap, local and reliable domestic skip hire in Ipswich 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 Ipswich
Not sure which size you need? Compare dimensions, capacity and typical uses — every size below is available in Ipswich.
Local area guide
Skip hire in Ipswich
Ipswich is a town in Suffolk, sitting at the head of the Orwell estuary around 70 miles north-east of London, with a population of around 145,000. It has a strong claim to be the oldest continuously occupied town in England — the Anglo-Saxon settlement of Gipeswic was established around 620 and grew into a substantial trading port with its own pottery industry, exporting across the North Sea. Excavations have revealed an urban street pattern in place by the seventh century, well before most English towns existed.
Ipswich prospered through the medieval period on the wool and cloth trade with the Low Countries, and its wealth built twelve medieval parish churches, of which several survive. The Ancient House on the Buttermarket is one of the finest examples of pargeting — decorative plasterwork — in England, its 1670s frontage covered in elaborate relief panels depicting the four known continents. Christchurch Mansion, a Tudor house set in a large park, holds the most significant collection of Constable and Gainsborough paintings outside London.
The town's most famous son is Cardinal Thomas Wolsey, born here around 1473 to a butcher or cattle dealer and rising to become Lord Chancellor and the most powerful man in England after Henry VIII. He founded a college in Ipswich intended to rival his Cardinal College at Oxford, but his fall from favour halted it — only the red brick Wolsey's Gate survives. A statue of him sits near the site.
Ipswich was the place where lawn tennis was first codified: the Ipswich and Suffolk Club drew up rules in the 1870s, and the town also has an unusual industrial legacy in Ransomes, whose engineering works invented the self-sharpening ploughshare and the motor lawnmower and exported worldwide. The Waterfront, once a busy commercial dock, has been substantially redeveloped with apartments, a marina, the University of Suffolk and restaurants.
Ipswich sits on the A12 and A14, with Ipswich station giving services to London Liverpool Street in just over an hour and to Norwich, Cambridge and Felixstowe. Housing ranges from medieval and Georgian property in the historic core to extensive Victorian terraces across the Norwich Road and Bramford Road areas, interwar and post-war estates at Whitton, Chantry and Gainsborough, and substantial modern development on the Waterfront and the town's northern fringe.