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We’ve delivered skips across Montrose for over 30 years — for homeowners clearing out, tradespeople on site, and businesses managing regular waste. Fast delivery throughout the DD10 postcode area, with a local team you can actually get on the phone.
Skip sizes available in Montrose
Do I need a permit?
A skip on your driveway or private land needs no permit. For a public road in Montrose, a permit is required from Angus Council — we arrange it for you as part of the booking.
Areas we cover near Montrose
Montrose household waste recycling centres
Prefer to drop off smaller amounts yourself? This is the council tip serving Montrose:
- Montrose Recycling Centre — Broomfield Road, Montrose, DD10 8SY. Open Monday to Sunday 9.15am–4pm; Wednesday 12.15pm–7pm (April–September).
Cars carrying household waste do not need to book. Any van, pick-up, trailer or liveried vehicle must be pre-booked with Angus Council, and staff check bookings on arrival. Arrive with enough time to unload — you may be refused entry close to closing time.
Why choose Select A Skip in Montrose?
- 30+ years’ skip & waste experience
- 1,100+ licensed, vetted suppliers
- Domestic, trade & commercial welcome
- Next-day delivery in most DD10 postcodes
- Council permits handled for you
- Transparent pricing, no hidden charges
Skip hire FAQs.
We provide cheap, local and reliable domestic skip hire in Montrose 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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Local area guide
Skip hire in Montrose
Montrose is a coastal town in Angus, sitting on a spit of land between the North Sea and a large tidal basin around 30 miles north-east of Dundee, with a population of around 12,000. It is an ancient royal burgh, chartered in the twelfth century, and its situation is unusual — the Montrose Basin behind the town is a near-circular tidal lagoon of some 750 hectares, filling and emptying twice daily through a narrow channel, and now a Scottish Wildlife Trust reserve of international importance for pink-footed geese, which arrive in tens of thousands each autumn.
The town has long been a working port, trading with the Baltic and the Low Countries from the medieval period, and it retains that role today serving the North Sea oil and gas industry and, increasingly, offshore wind. Montrose Port is a significant employer, and the town also has a substantial pharmaceutical and chemicals presence through GSK's long-established plant.
Montrose's most famous name is James Graham, 1st Marquess of Montrose, the brilliant Royalist general of the Civil Wars whose campaigns in 1644-45 produced a string of remarkable victories before his defeat, capture and execution in Edinburgh in 1650. The town also produced Robert Brown, the botanist who described Brownian motion and named the cell nucleus, and Joseph Hume, the radical MP and reformer, whose statue stands in the High Street.
Montrose Air Station was the first operational military airfield in Britain, established by the Royal Flying Corps in 1913, and its heritage centre preserves that history. The town's High Street is unusually wide, lined with Georgian and Victorian frontages, and the narrow closes running off it to the east — a distinctive local feature — give Montrose the local nickname of the gable-endie town, from the houses turned gable-end to the street in the Baltic manner.
The town sits on the A92 with Montrose station on the Aberdeen to Dundee line giving services in both directions — Aberdeen around 40 minutes north, Dundee half an hour south. A long sandy beach runs the length of the town's seaward side.
Housing in Montrose is largely traditional, with Georgian and Victorian property along the High Street and in the closes — much of the centre a conservation area with a substantial number of listed buildings — alongside Victorian villas, interwar and post-war council estates, and modern development on the edges. Property is among the more affordable in Scotland, and the local market is closely tied to the port and the offshore sector.