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We’ve delivered skips across Oxford for over 30 years — for homeowners clearing out, tradespeople on site, and businesses managing regular waste. Fast delivery throughout the OX postcode area, with a local team you can actually get on the phone.
Skip sizes available in Oxford
Do I need a permit?
A skip on your driveway or private land needs no permit. For a public road in Oxford, a permit is required from Oxfordshire County Council — we arrange it for you as part of the booking.
Areas we cover near Oxford
Why choose Select A Skip in Oxford?
- 30+ years’ skip & waste experience
- 1,100+ licensed, vetted suppliers
- Domestic, trade & commercial welcome
- Next-day delivery in most OX postcodes
- Council permits handled for you
- Transparent pricing, no hidden charges
Skip Permits in Oxford
Roads in Oxford are managed by Oxfordshire County Council, so skip licences come from the county rather than Oxford City Council. A skip on your driveway or other private land doesn't need one. If it has to go on the road, only a registered skip operator can apply, so we sort it out for you.
| Council | Oxfordshire County Council (highways) |
|---|---|
| Licence cost (not on a bus route) | £125 for setup and the first 7 days, then £50 per extra 7 days |
| Licence cost (on a bus route) | £140 for setup and the first 7 days, then £55 per extra 7 days |
| Notice needed | At least 5 working days |
| Parking bays | A separate parking suspension is needed if the skip takes up a residential parking bay |
| Non compliant skips | £500 fine plus £51 per hour enforcement |
| Applied for by | A registered skip operator (that's us) |
Oxford has a lot of bus routes and controlled parking zones, which both add cost and paperwork. If you don't have a driveway, tell us your street when you ask for a quote and we'll check for bus routes and parking bays before we book.
Oxford Recycling Centre
Oxford's tip is Redbridge Household Waste Recycling Centre on Old Abingdon Road, just south of the city centre by the ring road. It's run by Oxfordshire County Council.
| Address | Old Abingdon Road, Oxford OX1 4XG |
|---|---|
| Opening hours | 8am to 5pm, 7 days a week. Last vehicle in at 4.55pm |
| Booking | Required for every visit, including free DIY allowance visits |
| Vans and trailers | Some vehicles and trailer sizes need a free permit |
| Free DIY allowance | Two 50 litre rubble bags (or five 20 litre bags) or one fitted item, once every 7 days |
| Charges over the allowance | Bricks, rubble or soil £2.50 per 20 litre bag. Plaster £4.30 per bag. Plasterboard £11.80 per sheet. Toilets, sinks and baths £2.50 each |
| Trade waste | Separate chargeable trade area on site |
The county says DIY waste is industrial waste it has no duty to take, and points larger amounts towards skip hire. A bathroom or kitchen strip out soon runs past two bags, so a skip is usually cheaper than paying per bag.
Skip hire FAQs.
We provide cheap, local and reliable domestic skip hire in Oxford 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!
Choose your skip size in Oxford
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Local area guide
Skip hire in Oxford
Oxford is a city in Oxfordshire, sitting where the Cherwell joins the Thames — known locally as the Isis along this stretch — around 55 miles north-west of London, with a population of around 165,000. It grew around a ford for oxen, which gives the city its name, and became a significant Saxon burh before the arrival of scholars in the late eleventh century changed it permanently.
The University of Oxford is the oldest university in the English-speaking world, with teaching recorded from 1096. It grew rapidly after 1167, when Henry II barred English students from Paris, and the collegiate system developed from the thirteenth century. Its buildings define the city — the Bodleian Library, one of the oldest in Europe and a legal deposit library; the Radcliffe Camera, the circular domed reading room that is among the most photographed buildings in Britain; Christ Church with its Tom Tower and Great Hall; the Sheldonian Theatre, Wren's first major work; and the Bridge of Sighs at Hertford. Matthew Arnold's phrase, the city of dreaming spires, has stuck for 150 years.
Oxford's intellectual output is hard to overstate — from Roger Bacon and Duns Scotus through to the discovery of penicillin's therapeutic use by Florey and Chain at the Dunn School in 1940, and the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine in 2020. Its literary associations are equally dense: Lewis Carroll wrote Alice for the daughter of the Dean of Christ Church; Tolkien and C.S. Lewis met as the Inklings at the Eagle and Child; Philip Pullman set His Dark Materials in an alternative Jericho and Jordan College.
The city is not only the university. Morris Motors at Cowley, founded by William Morris in 1913, became one of the largest car plants in Britain and still builds the MINI, employing thousands — Oxford has long had two quite separate economies and identities, town and gown, north Oxford and Cowley.
Oxford sits on the A34 and A40 with the M40 close by, and Oxford and Oxford Parkway stations give services to London Paddington and Marylebone in around an hour. Housing ranges from medieval and Georgian college and city property to the Victorian villas of North Oxford — built for newly-permitted married dons and among the most expensive property in Britain — Jericho's terraces, interwar and post-war estates at Blackbird Leys and Barton, and new development at Northern Gateway. Oxford has the least affordable housing relative to earnings of any UK city.