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We’ve delivered skips across Salford for over 30 years — for homeowners clearing out, tradespeople on site, and businesses managing regular waste. Fast delivery throughout the M postcode area, with a local team you can actually get on the phone.
Skip sizes available in Salford
Do I need a permit?
A skip on your driveway or private land needs no permit. For a public road in Salford, a permit is required from Salford City Council — we arrange it for you as part of the booking.
Areas we cover near Salford
Why choose Select A Skip in Salford?
- 30+ years’ skip & waste experience
- 1,100+ licensed, vetted suppliers
- Domestic, trade & commercial welcome
- Next-day delivery in most M postcodes
- Council permits handled for you
- Transparent pricing, no hidden charges
Where Your Skip Goes in Salford
Salford is not one type of street. Where you live decides whether the skip sits on the drive or the road, what size fits, and how far ahead you should book. Here is what we see across the city.
Ordsall, Weaste, Seedley and Pendleton
Mostly Victorian terraces with front doors straight onto the pavement and no off road parking. The skip almost always goes on the road, so it needs a council permit. A 4 or 6 yard skip is usually the most that fits outside a terrace without blocking the street. Give us a few days so the permit is in place before delivery.
Salford Quays, Greengate and Chapel Street
High density apartments and new build blocks. There is rarely space on the street, and many buildings have a management company that controls loading bays and access times. Check with them first. For a flat clear out, a smaller skip in an agreed loading area, or a wait and load collection, is often the better option.
Worsley, Walkden, Boothstown and Swinton
More semis and detached homes with driveways. A skip on your own drive needs no permit, which saves money and time. This is where we place most 8 and 12 yard skips for kitchen refits, extensions and garden landscaping. Lay boards on block paving if you are worried about marks.
Eccles, Irlam and Cadishead
A mix of terraces and semis. Check whether you have a drive wide enough for a skip lorry to reach, roughly 3 metres. If not, it goes on the road with a permit, the same as the inner city areas.
Skip Permit Costs in Salford
Salford City Council prices permits by the type of skip, so the job you are doing changes the cost. We apply for the permit and add it to your quote.
| Domestic skip | £20.76 when booked in advance by a registered skip company |
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| Builders or commercial skip | £40.00 when booked in advance |
| Skips over 12 yards | £72.66 when booked in advance |
| Permit length | Up to 28 days. Each extra 28 days is charged again |
| On your drive | No permit needed |
| No permit | The council can remove the skip |
Salford Recycling Centres
Salford residents can use any Greater Manchester recycling centre for free. Three sit inside the city. Pick the one nearest to you.
| Cobden Street, M6 6NA | Nearest for Pendleton, Seedley, Ordsall, Weaste and the Quays |
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| Lumns Lane, Clifton, M27 8LN | Nearest for Swinton, Pendlebury, Clifton and Kearsley side |
| Boysnope Wharf, Liverpool Road, M30 7RH | Nearest for Eccles, Irlam, Cadishead and Barton |
| Opening hours | Seven days a week from 8am. Winter closing is 6pm, with later closing in summer. Closed Christmas Day and New Year's Day |
| Vans and trailers | Need a free van permit, applied for online at least 2 working days before your first visit |
| Trade waste | Not accepted. Waste from a builder or tradesperson you have hired counts as business waste |
Skip or Tip? A Salford Example
Kitchen refit on a Pendleton terrace. The old units, worktops, tiles and plasterboard fill roughly 6 cubic yards. That is around 60 bin bags, or six to eight trips to Cobden Street in an estate car, plus a van permit if you hire a van. If a fitter rips the kitchen out, none of it can go to the tip at all, because it becomes trade waste.
A 6 yard builders skip on the road, with a £20.76 domestic permit, takes the lot in one go. We drop it off, you fill it at your own pace, and we collect it.
For a few bags or a single car load, the tip is the cheaper choice. For a refit, a house clearance or any job where a tradesperson does the work, a skip is the practical answer in Salford.
Skip hire FAQs.
We provide cheap, local and reliable domestic skip hire in Salford 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 Salford
Not sure which size you need? Compare dimensions, capacity and typical uses — every size below is available in Salford.
Local area guide
Skip hire in Salford
Salford is a city in Greater Manchester, sitting on the north bank of the Irwell directly across from Manchester city centre, with a population of around 280,000. It is older than its more famous neighbour — Salford was a royal manor and market town with a charter from 1230, while Manchester remained a manorial township for centuries — and it retains a fierce separate identity, having been granted city status in its own right in 1926.
Salford was at the centre of the Industrial Revolution and of its documentation. Friedrich Engels described the slums here in The Condition of the Working Class in England in 1845, and the city's cotton mills, dye works and engineering shops made it one of the most densely industrialised places on earth. The Manchester Ship Canal, opened in 1894, terminated at Salford Docks, and for eighty years the docks made land-locked Manchester the third busiest port in Britain.
The docks closed in 1982, and what followed is one of the most successful urban regenerations in Europe. Salford Quays rose on the derelict water — the Lowry arts centre, the Imperial War Museum North designed by Daniel Libeskind, and from 2011 MediaCityUK, the BBC's northern base along with ITV, Coronation Street's set and a substantial digital cluster. The area now employs thousands in broadcasting and creative industries.
The city's presiding artistic figure is L.S. Lowry, who lived and worked in Salford and painted its mills, streets and crowds of matchstick figures for half a century while working as a rent collector. The Lowry holds the largest public collection of his work. Salford also produced Albert Finney, the writer Shelagh Delaney — whose A Taste of Honey was set here — and Peter Hook and Bernard Sumner of Joy Division and New Order. Ewan MacColl's "Dirty Old Town" was written about Salford.
Salford Cathedral, Ordsall Hall — a fine timber-framed Tudor manor house — and Peel Park, one of the first public parks in the world when opened in 1846, are among the city's heritage assets. The University of Salford is a substantial presence.
Housing ranges from Victorian terraces in Ordsall, Pendleton and Weaste to large post-war estates, high-rise blocks, and very extensive new high-density development at the Quays, Greengate and Chapel Street, which has transformed the city's riverside in the past two decades.