Skip hire in Penzance, made simple
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If your skip is placed on a public road in Penzance, you’ll need a permit from Cornwall Council — currently £115. We arrange the permit for you and add it to your price. If the skip sits on your own driveway or private land, no permit is needed.
The nearest household waste recycling centre to Penzance is St Erth Recycling Centre. It’s handy for small loads you’d rather take yourself — but for anything more than a car-boot’s worth, a skip saves you the trips and the sorting.
Skip hire in Penzance starts from £202 for a 2 yard skip, ex VAT. Your exact price depends on the size you need, what you’re clearing and where the skip goes — see our prices or get a fast, no-obligation quote. Any council permit fee (see above) is added separately.
See our full skip hire FAQs for skip sizes, filling limits, hire periods, lorry access and what you can and can’t put in a skip.
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With more than 25years of trading history we have continuously developed the services we are now able to provide on a nationwide basis.
Skip hire in Penzance & across Cornwall
We’ve delivered skips across Penzance for over 30 years — for homeowners clearing out, tradespeople on site, and businesses managing regular waste. Fast delivery throughout the TR18 postcode area, with a local team you can actually get on the phone.
Skip sizes available in Penzance
Do I need a permit?
If the skip goes on a public road, pavement or verge in Penzance you’ll need a permit from Cornwall Council. On your own driveway or land, no permit is needed. We arrange council permits for you as part of the booking.
Areas we cover near Penzance
Penzance household waste recycling centre
Prefer to drop off smaller amounts yourself? Your nearest tip is:
- St Erth Recycling Centre — at Station Approach, St Erth near Hayle (the nearest centre to Penzance) · TR27 6JP
The tip is a drive out towards Hayle, so for a house clearance or building job in Penzance a skip on site saves the trips.
Why choose Select A Skip in Penzance?
- 30+ years’ skip & waste experience
- 1,100+ licensed, vetted suppliers
- Domestic, trade & commercial welcome
- Next-day delivery in most TR18 postcodes
- Council permits handled for you
- Transparent pricing, no hidden charges
Choose your skip size in Penzance
Not sure which size you need? Compare dimensions, capacity and typical uses — every size below is available in Penzance.
Local area guide
Skip hire in Penzance
Penzance is a town in Cornwall, sitting on the shore of Mount's Bay at the far western end of the county, with a population of around 21,000. It is the westernmost town in England and the terminus of the Great Western Main Line — the end of the railway from Paddington, 305 miles away. The name comes from the Cornish Pen Sans, holy headland, referring to a chapel that once stood on the promontory.
The town's most famous view is of St Michael's Mount, the tidal island a few miles east crowned by a medieval priory and castle, reached at low tide by a granite causeway. Long a place of pilgrimage and the mirror of Mont Saint-Michel in Normandy, it has been the home of the St Aubyn family since the seventeenth century and is now in the care of the National Trust.
Penzance was sacked and burned by a Spanish raiding force in 1595, one of the few successful enemy landings on English soil, and rebuilt afterwards. Its Georgian prosperity came from tin, copper and pilchards, and Chapel Street — running up from the harbour past the extraordinary Egyptian House of 1835, its façade a riot of lotus columns and painted decoration — is one of the finest streets in Cornwall. The Jubilee Pool on the seafront, opened in 1935, is the largest surviving seawater art deco lido in Britain and is now partly geothermally heated.
Penzance has a strong artistic heritage through the Newlyn School, whose painters worked in the neighbouring fishing village from the 1880s — Stanhope Forbes, Walter Langley and others — bringing plein-air realism to British art. Newlyn remains one of the largest fishing ports in England by value of catch. Nearby Mousehole, Lamorna and Porthcurno, with the open-air Minack Theatre cut into the cliff, are among the best-known places in Cornwall, and the Isles of Scilly are reached from Penzance by the Scillonian ferry and by helicopter.
The town sits at the end of the A30, with Penzance station giving direct services to London Paddington including the overnight Night Riviera sleeper. Housing ranges from Georgian property around Chapel Street and Regent Terrace to Victorian and Edwardian villas and terraces, interwar and post-war estates at Treneere and Alverton, and modern development on the edges, with second homes, holiday lets and low local wages making affordability an acute and long-running issue.