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Skip Permits in Lambeth
Lambeth Council is the highways authority for the borough. If your skip has to stand on the road, it needs a skip licence. If it fits on your own driveway or private land, you do not need one.
| Who applies | Only skip companies can hold a licence. The company applies, even when a customer hires the skip |
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| Licence fee | £75.94 for every location type, including single yellow lines and suspended bays |
| Licence length | 2 weeks |
| Maximum skip size | 6 yards. Larger units need a highways licence |
| Wait and load | Not permitted. Any skip on the highway needs a valid licence |
| Parking bays | Any parking suspension must be arranged before the skip is placed |
Breaking the conditions can mean fixed penalty notices. We arrange the licence for you and confirm the cost at booking.
Nearest Recycling Centre to Lambeth
Lambeth residents can use two sites. Both need proof of a Lambeth address.
| Lambeth Reuse and Recycling Centre | Vale Street, West Norwood, SE27 9PA. Monday, Thursday and Friday 7:30am to 4:30pm, Saturday and Sunday 8am to 5pm, closed Tuesday and Wednesday and from midday to 1pm daily. Booking required by vehicle. Recycling and reuse items only, no general rubbish |
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| Smugglers Way HWRC | Smugglers Way, Wandsworth, SW18 1JS. Accepts general rubbish. Booking required by car at wrwa.gov.uk/centre-opening-times |
| Vans and trade waste | Vans and commercial vehicles are not admitted at Vale Street, and trade waste is not accepted |
| Council contact | 020 7926 9000, Monday to Friday 9am to 5pm |
Check the council website before you travel, as hours and rules can change. A skip saves repeated trips to the tip. We deliver it, leave it as long as you need and collect it when it is full.
Skip hire FAQs.
We provide cheap, local and reliable domestic skip hire in Lambeth and across London.
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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Local area guide
Skip hire in Lambeth
Lambeth is a borough in south London, running from the South Bank opposite Westminster down through Kennington, Brixton and Clapham to Streatham and Norwood, with a population of around 320,000. It takes its name from the riverside settlement at a muddy landing place — a loamy hithe — and its riverfront has been shaped for eight centuries by Lambeth Palace, the London residence of the Archbishops of Canterbury since around 1200 and still the seat of the Anglican Communion's senior bishop.
The borough's riverside is one of the most visited stretches in Britain. The South Bank holds the Royal Festival Hall, built for the Festival of Britain in 1951, the Hayward Gallery, the National Theatre and the BFI, forming the largest cultural quarter in Europe. The London Eye, opened for the millennium, stands beside County Hall, which housed the London County Council and then the GLC until its abolition in 1986. The Imperial War Museum occupies the former Bethlem Royal Hospital — Bedlam — in Southwark's borderland at Lambeth Road.
Brixton holds a central place in modern British history. It became the heart of London's Caribbean community after Windrush, with many of the 1948 arrivals housed temporarily in the Clapham South deep shelter and registering at the labour exchange in Brixton. Electric Avenue was the first market street in London lit by electricity. The Brixton uprising of 1981 and the Scarman Report that followed reshaped policing and race relations policy nationally, and Brixton Market and the Ritzy remain cultural anchors. David Bowie was born in Brixton in 1947, and a mural on Tunstall Road has become a site of pilgrimage.
Lambeth also holds the Oval, home of Surrey County Cricket Club since 1845 and the ground where the first Test match in England was played in 1880 and the Ashes urn legend began in 1882. Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens, on the riverside, were the most famous entertainment venue in eighteenth-century Europe.
The borough is served by the Northern, Victoria, Bakerloo and Jubilee lines and extensive rail services from Waterloo. Housing ranges from Georgian terraces in Kennington and Clapham — among the most expensive in south London — to Victorian terraces across Brixton, Herne Hill and Streatham, very large post-war estates including the Aylesbury's neighbours at Stockwell and Tulse Hill, and substantial new development at Nine Elms and Vauxhall, one of the largest regeneration zones in Europe.