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We provide cheap, local and reliable domestic skip hire in Newquay 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 Newquay
Newquay is a coastal town in Cornwall, sitting on the north coast around 12 miles north of Truro, with a population of around 24,000. It began as a fishing settlement called Towan Blystra, and the modern name comes from a new quay built in the fifteenth century to shelter the boats. Pilchard fishing dominated for centuries, directed from the Huer's Hut on the headland — a small whitewashed lookout, still standing, from which a watchman scanned the sea for the red shoals and raised the cry of "hevva" to launch the boats.
The town's transformation came with the railway in 1876, which brought holidaymakers, and later with china clay, exported through the harbour from the pits inland. But Newquay's modern identity was made by surfing. Fistral Beach, facing the full Atlantic swell, became the centre of British surfing from the 1960s, and the town is unambiguously the sport's UK capital — Fistral has hosted the Boardmasters festival and international competitions, and the surf industry underpins a substantial part of the local economy.
Newquay has seven main beaches within the town, from Fistral and Towan to Watergate Bay and Crantock, and Towan Beach holds a distinctive oddity: a small house perched alone on an island of rock, reached by a suspension bridge. The coast either side is spectacular — Bedruthan Steps, with its line of rock stacks, lies a few miles north, and Holywell Bay and Perranporth to the south.
The town has a well-earned reputation as a party destination, which has brought both prosperity and difficulties, and efforts to reposition Newquay towards family and outdoor tourism have shaped local policy for two decades. Newquay is also the base of Cornwall Airport Newquay, the county's only commercial airport, and Spaceport Cornwall alongside it — from which Virgin Orbit attempted the first satellite launch from UK soil in January 2023.
Newquay sits on the A392 and A3058 with the A30 close by, and Newquay station is the terminus of the Atlantic Coast Line from Par. The Eden Project and the Cornish china clay country lie inland.
Housing ranges from Victorian and Edwardian villas and former hotels along the cliffs — many converted into flats and holiday accommodation — to interwar and post-war housing, extensive modern estates on the town's inland edge, and the very large Nansledan development, the Duchy of Cornwall's Cornish counterpart to Poundbury. Second homes, holiday lets and seasonal work make affordability a persistent local issue.