Skip hire in Manchester, made simple
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0161-267 0000Skip hire in Manchester & across Greater Manchester
We’ve delivered skips across Manchester for over 30 years — for homeowners clearing out, tradespeople on site, and businesses managing regular waste. Fast delivery throughout the M postcode area, with a local team you can actually get on the phone.
Skip sizes available in Manchester
Do I need a permit?
A skip on your driveway or private land needs no permit. For a public road in Manchester, a permit is required from Manchester City Council — we arrange it for you as part of the booking.
Areas we cover near Manchester
Manchester household waste recycling centres
Prefer to drop off smaller amounts yourself? These are the council tips serving Manchester:
- Longley Lane Recycling Centre — Longley Lane, Sharston, Manchester, M22 4RQ. Open Monday – Sunday, 8am to 8pm. Cars accepted; vans, pick-up trucks and twin-axle trailers require a permit.
- Sandfold Lane Recycling Centre — Sandfold Lane, Levenshulme, Manchester, M19 3BJ. Open Monday – Sunday, 8am to 8pm. Cars accepted; vans and twin-axle trailers require a permit.
Both centres are run by Recycle for Greater Manchester (R4GM) & Suez and are free for residents of the nine participating Greater Manchester boroughs. No booking is required, but you'll need a valid permit to bring a van, pick-up or trailer – apply in advance via recycleforgreatermanchester.com. Sites accept household waste only, not commercial or trade waste, and are open every day except Christmas Day and New Year's Day. Note that Reliance Street Recycling Centre (M40 3EZ) is temporarily closed for improvement works – check recycleforgreatermanchester.com for current hours and permit details.
Why choose Select A Skip in Manchester?
- 30+ years’ skip & waste experience
- 1,100+ licensed, vetted suppliers
- Domestic, trade & commercial welcome
- Next-day delivery in most M postcodes
- Council permits handled for you
- Transparent pricing, no hidden charges
Skip hire FAQs.
We provide cheap, local and reliable domestic skip hire in Manchester 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!
What we can provide
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With more than 25years of trading history we have continuously developed the services we are now able to provide on a nationwide basis.
Local area guide
Skip hire in Manchester
Manchester is the largest city in the north-west of England, with a population of around 570,000 and a wider Greater Manchester conurbation of some 2.9 million. It was the world's first industrial city, transformed by cotton spinning to the point where it became known as Cottonopolis, and its mills, warehouses and canals reshaped both the landscape and modern economics — Engels wrote The Condition of the Working Class in England from observations here, and the Manchester Ship Canal turned an inland city into a port. Today Manchester is the commercial, cultural and transport hub of the north, with major strengths in finance, media, technology and higher education.
The city centre combines Victorian civic grandeur with dense modern development, anchored by Alfred Waterhouse's Gothic Town Hall, the Grade I listed John Rylands Library and the Royal Exchange. The Northern Quarter, Ancoats and Castlefield each retain a strong industrial character, with Castlefield's Roman fort, canal basins and viaducts forming the country's first Urban Heritage Park. Manchester's musical legacy — from Joy Division and The Smiths to Oasis — is part of the city's international identity, alongside two of the best-known football clubs in the world at Old Trafford and the Etihad. The Science and Industry Museum, Manchester Art Gallery and HOME anchor the cultural offer.
Manchester is exceptionally well connected, with Piccadilly and Victoria stations serving London Euston in around two hours and routes across the north, the Metrolink tram network reaching Bury, Altrincham, Rochdale, Eccles and the airport, and Manchester Airport the busiest outside London. The M60 orbital, M62, M56 and M602 all serve the conurbation. Four universities in the city region give Manchester one of the largest student populations in Europe. Its neighbourhoods include Didsbury, Chorlton, Withington, Fallowfield and Whalley Range to the south, Ancoats, Miles Platting and Newton Heath to the east, and Moss Side, Hulme, Rusholme and Levenshulme closer in.
Housing across Manchester ranges from Victorian villas in Didsbury, Chorlton and Whalley Range to vast tracts of terraced housing in Levenshulme, Gorton, Moss Side and Longsight, interwar semis in Burnage and Withington, and post-war estates at Wythenshawe — one of the largest council estates in Europe. The student population supports an enormous HMO market through Fallowfield, Withington and Rusholme, refurbished constantly between tenancies, and the city centre, Ancoats, New Islington and Salford Quays have seen a decade of intensive apartment and commercial development.
That scale of renovation and construction activity keeps skip hire in Manchester in constant demand, whether it's a loft conversion in Chorlton, a full refurbishment in Didsbury, an HMO refit in Fallowfield, a terrace renovation in Levenshulme, a garden clearance in Burnage or a commercial strip-out in Ancoats or the city centre. Skips are available in a range of sizes to suit everything from a small domestic clear-out to a large construction project, and because so many Manchester streets are terraced with no off-road parking and sit within residents' parking schemes, a permit from Manchester City Council will very often be needed where the skip has to go on the highway. Booking a few days ahead helps secure the right size and allows time for the permit to be arranged.
Choose your skip size in Manchester
Not sure which size you need? Compare dimensions, capacity and typical uses — every size below is available in Manchester.