Skip hire in Rotherham, made simple
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We’ve delivered skips across Rotherham for over 30 years — for homeowners clearing out, tradespeople on site, and businesses managing regular waste. Fast delivery throughout the S postcode area, with a local team you can actually get on the phone.
Skip sizes available in Rotherham
Do I need a permit?
A skip on your driveway or private land needs no permit. For a public road in Rotherham, a permit is required from Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council — we arrange it for you as part of the booking.
Areas we cover near Rotherham
Rotherham household waste recycling centres
Prefer to drop off smaller amounts yourself? These are the council tips serving Rotherham:
- North Anston Household Waste Recycling Centre — Common Road, North Anston, Rotherham, S25 4AA. No booking needed for cars.
- Bramley Household Waste Recycling Centre — Cross Gate, Bramley, Rotherham, S66 2GX.
Rotherham operates four sites (Bramley, Greasbrough, North Anston and Rawmarsh) open seven days a week for household waste only — no commercial or trade waste is accepted. No car booking is required. Larger and commercial-type vehicles need a permit, which is issued once you can show the vehicle is registered to a residential address. Check rotherham.gov.uk for current opening hours.
Why choose Select A Skip in Rotherham?
- 30+ years’ skip & waste experience
- 1,100+ licensed, vetted suppliers
- Domestic, trade & commercial welcome
- Next-day delivery in most S postcodes
- Council permits handled for you
- Transparent pricing, no hidden charges
Skip hire FAQs.
We provide cheap, local and reliable domestic skip hire in Rotherham 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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Choose your skip size in Rotherham
Not sure which size you need? Compare dimensions, capacity and typical uses — every size below is available in Rotherham.
Local area guide
Skip hire in Rotherham
Rotherham is a town in South Yorkshire, sitting where the River Rother joins the Don around six miles north-east of Sheffield, with a population of around 110,000. It grew as a market town with a charter from 1207 and became one of the most important centres of the British iron and steel industry — the Walker family's foundry at Masbrough, established in 1746, grew into one of the largest ironworks in Europe, casting cannon for the Royal Navy and the iron for Southwark Bridge and Ironbridge's successor structures.
The town's finest building is the Chapel of Our Lady on Rotherham Bridge, one of only four surviving bridge chapels in England — a small fifteenth-century chapel built onto the medieval bridge over the Don, which has served as a chapel, prison, tobacconist's shop and almshouse in its time. Rotherham Minster, the parish church of All Saints, is a magnificent Perpendicular building with a 180-foot spire, described by Pevsner as the best Perpendicular church in the county.
Rotherham's greatest historical figure is Thomas Rotherham, born here in 1423, who became Archbishop of York and Lord Chancellor of England, and founded the College of Jesus in the town — one of the earliest attempts at a secular college in England. The town also produced Ebenezer Elliott, the Corn Law Rhymer, whose verse campaigning against the bread taxes made him nationally famous in the 1830s.
Steel dominated the twentieth century, with Steel, Peech and Tozer's Templeborough works — the largest electric arc steel plant in Europe — running along the Don valley. That site now houses Magna, an award-winning science adventure centre built inside the vast former melting shop, one of the most dramatic industrial conversions in Britain. Nearby stands Wentworth Woodhouse, the largest privately owned house in Europe with a front elevation over 600 feet long, now under restoration by a preservation trust.
Rotherham sits close to the M1 and M18, with Rotherham Central station giving services to Sheffield, Doncaster and Leeds, and the Supertram now running through to Sheffield on tram-train services. Housing ranges from Georgian and Victorian property around the centre to terraces built for the steel and colliery workforce across Masbrough and Eastwood, interwar and post-war estates, and modern development on reclaimed industrial land, with property among the more affordable in England.