Skip hire in Melton Mowbray, made simple
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01664-550031Skip hire FAQs.
If your skip is placed on a public road in Melton Mowbray, you’ll need a permit from Leicestershire County Council — currently £45. We arrange the permit for you and add it to your price. If the skip sits on your own driveway or private land, no permit is needed.
The nearest household waste recycling centre to Melton Mowbray is Melton Mowbray Recycling Centre. It’s handy for small loads you’d rather take yourself — but for anything more than a car-boot’s worth, a skip saves you the trips and the sorting.
See our full skip hire FAQs for skip sizes, filling limits, hire periods, lorry access and what you can and can’t put in a skip.
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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.
Skip hire in Melton Mowbray & across Leicestershire
We’ve delivered skips across Melton Mowbray for over 30 years — for homeowners clearing out, tradespeople on site, and businesses managing regular waste. Fast delivery throughout the LE13 postcode area, with a local team you can actually get on the phone.
Skip sizes available in Melton Mowbray
Do I need a permit?
If the skip goes on a public road, pavement or verge in Melton Mowbray you’ll need a permit from Leicestershire County Council. On your own driveway or land, no permit is needed. We arrange council permits for you as part of the booking.
Areas we cover near Melton Mowbray
Melton Mowbray household waste recycling centre
Prefer to drop off smaller amounts yourself? Your nearest tip is:
- Melton Mowbray Recycling Centre — on Lake Terrace · LE13 0BZ
Good for household waste, but renovation and garden clearances around Melton suit a skip on the drive.
Why choose Select A Skip in Melton Mowbray?
- 30+ years’ skip & waste experience
- 1,100+ licensed, vetted suppliers
- Domestic, trade & commercial welcome
- Next-day delivery in most LE13 postcodes
- Council permits handled for you
- Transparent pricing, no hidden charges
Choose your skip size in Melton Mowbray
Not sure which size you need? Compare dimensions, capacity and typical uses — every size below is available in Melton Mowbray.
Local area guide
Skip hire in Melton Mowbray
Melton Mowbray is a market town in Leicestershire, sitting on the River Eye around 15 miles north-east of Leicester, with a population of around 28,000. It appears in the Domesday Book and has held a market since at least the twelfth century; the town styles itself the Rural Capital of Food, and the claim is unusually well founded, since Melton is the origin of two of Britain's best-known protected foods.
The Melton Mowbray pork pie is the more famous. Made with uncured pork, hand-raised without a hoop so the sides bow outwards, and baked to a distinctive grey-pink interior and rich jelly, it originated in the town in the eighteenth century as food for fox hunters. It was granted Protected Geographical Indication status in 2008 after a long campaign, meaning only pies made to the traditional method within a defined area around Melton can carry the name. Ye Olde Pork Pie Shoppe, trading since 1851, still makes them by hand.
Stilton is the other. The blue cheese was never made in the Cambridgeshire village of Stilton, which was simply where it was sold to coach travellers — it was produced in the Vale of Belvoir around Melton, and today only six dairies in Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire may legally make it. Melton's connection to both foods is celebrated at the town's markets and the annual East Midlands Food Festival.
Melton's third great association is fox hunting. From the late eighteenth century the town became the acknowledged capital of the sport, with the Quorn, Cottesmore and Belvoir hunts all within reach, and the wealthy and aristocratic took houses here for the season — the phrase "painting the town red" is traditionally traced to a night in 1837 when the Marquess of Waterford and friends daubed Melton's buildings with red paint after a hunt.
The town sits on the A606 and A607, with Melton Mowbray station giving services to Leicester, Nottingham, Peterborough and Birmingham. Belvoir Castle, Rutland Water and the Vale of Belvoir are close by. Housing ranges from Georgian and earlier property around the Market Place and Burton Street — the centre is a conservation area with a substantial number of listed buildings — to Victorian terraces, interwar and post-war estates, and considerable modern development on the town's edges, including large allocations to the north and south driven by continued growth.