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We provide cheap, local and reliable domestic skip hire in Newcastle-under-Lyme 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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Skip hire in Newcastle-under-Lyme
Newcastle-under-Lyme is a market town in Staffordshire, sitting immediately west of Stoke-on-Trent, with a population of around 75,000. It grew around a castle built in the twelfth century — the new castle that gives the town its name — with the "under Lyme" element referring to the ancient Forest of Lyme that once covered the area. The castle has long vanished, but the town received its charter in 1173 and has held a market ever since, making it one of the oldest continuous markets in the country.
Newcastle is fiercely distinct from the Potteries beside it. While the six towns that became Stoke-on-Trent grew around ceramics, Newcastle remained a market and administrative centre with its own borough identity, and it pointedly declined to join the 1910 federation that created Stoke — a separateness locals maintain to this day. The town's own industries were hatting, silk and later coal, with the Apedale and Silverdale collieries nearby; Silverdale was the last deep mine in North Staffordshire, closing in 1998.
The town centre keeps its medieval street pattern around the Ironmarket, High Street and Red Lion Square, with the Guildhall of 1713 standing at its heart and the Victorian covered market alongside. The New Vic at Basford is one of the few purpose-built theatres in the round in Europe and a significant regional producing house.
Keele University, three miles west, is the town's most substantial modern institution. Founded in 1949 as the University College of North Staffordshire, it was the first entirely new university foundation in Britain in the twentieth century and pioneered the broad-based four-year degree. Its 600-acre parkland campus around Keele Hall is the largest of any UK university, and it brings around 10,000 students to the area.
Newcastle sits at junction 15 and 16 of the M6 with the A34 and A53 running through, and Stoke-on-Trent station a couple of miles east gives West Coast Main Line services to London in around 90 minutes and to Manchester and Birmingham. Neighbouring communities include Stoke-on-Trent, Silverdale, Audley, Madeley, Clayton and Wolstanton.
Housing ranges from Georgian property around the Ironmarket and Lower Street to Victorian terraces, extensive interwar and post-war estates at Chesterton, Knutton and Cross Heath, substantial private housing in the Westlands and Clayton — among the more desirable addresses in North Staffordshire — and modern development on former colliery land, with values generally above the Stoke-on-Trent average.