Skip hire in Northampton, made simple
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01604-330055Skip hire in Northampton & across Northamptonshire
We’ve delivered skips across Northampton for over 30 years — for homeowners clearing out, tradespeople on site, and businesses managing regular waste. Fast delivery throughout the NN postcode area, with a local team you can actually get on the phone.
Skip sizes available in Northampton
Do I need a permit?
A skip on your driveway or private land needs no permit. For a public road in Northampton, a permit is required from West Northamptonshire Council — we arrange it for you as part of the booking.
Areas we cover near Northampton
Northampton household waste recycling centres
Prefer to drop off smaller amounts yourself? These are the council tips serving Northampton:
- Sixfields HWRC — Walter Tull Way, Weedon Road (via Sixfields leisure roundabout), Northampton, NN5 5QL. Booking required in advance.
- Ecton Lane HWRC — Lower Ecton Lane, Great Billing, Northampton, NN3 5HQ. Booking required in advance.
West Northamptonshire Council operates both sites and you must book a free slot in advance before visiting – book via westnorthants.gov.uk. Vans and vehicles towing trailers may need an e-permit, and DIY/vehicle restrictions apply. Check westnorthants.gov.uk for current opening hours and booking.
Why choose Select A Skip in Northampton?
- 30+ years’ skip & waste experience
- 1,100+ licensed, vetted suppliers
- Domestic, trade & commercial welcome
- Next-day delivery in most NN postcodes
- Council permits handled for you
- Transparent pricing, no hidden charges
Skip hire FAQs.
We provide cheap, local and reliable domestic skip hire in Northampton 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 Northampton
Northampton is a large town in the East Midlands, sitting on the River Nene around 60 miles north-west of London, with a population of around 250,000 — one of the largest towns in England without city status. It grew up around a Norman castle and became an important medieval trading centre before a devastating fire in 1675 destroyed much of the town, leading to a substantial rebuild that gave Northampton its handsome Georgian core. The town went on to become the centre of the British boot and shoe industry, and Northampton-made footwear from firms such as Church's, Crockett & Jones and Tricker's still carries a worldwide reputation.
The town centre is focused on the Market Square, one of the largest medieval squares in the country, overlooked by the Grade I listed Guildhall with its ornate Victorian Gothic frontage. Other landmarks include All Saints' Church, rebuilt after the great fire, the Holy Sepulchre Church — one of only four surviving round churches in England — and the 78 Derngate house remodelled by Charles Rennie Mackintosh. Northampton Museum and Art Gallery holds the largest collection of historic footwear in the world, and the town has the Royal & Derngate theatre complex, Franklin's Gardens home to Northampton Saints, and the Delapré Abbey estate on the southern edge.
Northampton is very well placed for transport, with Northampton station offering trains to London Euston in around an hour and to Birmingham in a similar time, and the M1 running along the western edge of the town with junctions 15, 15A and 16 all serving it. That location has made Northampton a major national logistics and distribution centre, with large warehousing operations at Brackmills, Swan Valley and Crick nearby. The town's neighbourhoods include Abington, Kingsthorpe, Duston, Weston Favell, Far Cotton, Wootton, East Hunsbury, Delapré, Semilong and the newer developments at Upton and Northampton North.
Housing across Northampton is varied, with Georgian and Victorian townhouses around the centre and Abington, terraced streets built for the shoe trade in Semilong, Far Cotton and St James, interwar semis in Kingsthorpe and Duston, and extensive post-war and modern estates at Weston Favell, East Hunsbury, Wootton and Upton. The town continues to expand with large new housing developments on its edges, while the older stock supports a steady flow of extensions, loft conversions, HMO conversions and full refurbishments.
That combination of new development and older property renovation keeps skip hire in Northampton consistently busy, whether it's a house refurbishment in Abington, a rear extension in Duston, a garden clearance in East Hunsbury, a rental refit in Far Cotton or a unit strip-out on one of the industrial estates at Brackmills or Moulton Park. Skips are available in a range of sizes to suit everything from a small household clear-out to a large building project, and while most modern estates have driveways where a skip can sit without a permit, the terraced streets closer to the centre rely on on-street parking, so a permit from West Northamptonshire Council will be needed where the skip has to go on the road. Booking a few days ahead helps secure the right size and allows time for any permit to be arranged.
Choose your skip size in Northampton
Not sure which size you need? Compare dimensions, capacity and typical uses — every size below is available in Northampton.
Local guide
Skip hire in Northampton: permits, sizes & access
Skip hire for Northampton trades & businesses
Northampton sits at the heart of the UK’s logistics “Golden Triangle”, with a busy construction sector feeding it — from Brackmills and Moulton Park to sites across the town. For builders, groundworkers and fit-out contractors, match the skip to the waste: heavy waste (rubble, soil, concrete) fills by weight, so a 6-yard skip is often right, and for large volumes of muck-away, grab hire can beat multiple skip exchanges; bulky, lighter waste suits an 8-yard builders’ skip; big projects suit a RoRo. We arrange a West Northamptonshire Council permit if the skip needs to go on the road.
Regular collections & Duty of Care
If your premises produce waste week in, week out — shop, office, warehouse, café or workshop — scheduled commercial collections usually beat one-off skips: the right bins on the right schedule, general, dry-recycling and food-waste collections (food waste now a legal requirement for most businesses under Simpler Recycling), licensed carriers and Waste Transfer Notes handled for you, on one invoice. Every Northampton business has a legal Duty of Care: use a licensed carrier, keep Waste Transfer Notes, and store waste safely. Hand waste to an unlicensed operator and if it is fly-tipped you can be traced through your own paperwork and fined — a licensed provider takes that liability off you.
Hazardous waste & site set-up
Plenty of ordinary businesses produce hazardous waste — fluorescent tubes, batteries, WEEE, aerosols, paints and solvents — none of which can go in a standard skip; they need a compliant hazardous route with consignment notes. Setting up a construction site? We also supply site equipment (welfare units, toilets, fencing, storage) and soils and aggregates delivered direct, alongside your skips and collections, so one ISO 9001 and 14001 registered supplier gets a Northampton site compliant from day one.