Skip hire in Sunderland, made simple
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0191-381 0063Skip hire in Sunderland & across Tyne & Wear
We’ve delivered skips across Sunderland for over 30 years — for homeowners clearing out, tradespeople on site, and businesses managing regular waste. Fast delivery throughout the SR postcode area, with a local team you can actually get on the phone.
Skip sizes available in Sunderland
Do I need a permit?
A skip on your driveway or private land needs no permit. For a public road in Sunderland, a permit is required from Sunderland City Council — we arrange it for you as part of the booking.
Areas we cover near Sunderland
Sunderland household waste recycling centres
Prefer to drop off smaller amounts yourself? These are the council tips serving Sunderland:
- Pallion Household Waste and Recycling Centre — European Way, Pallion Industrial Estate, Sunderland, SR4 6SN. Open every day except Christmas Day and New Year's Day. Charity reuse shop open 7 days a week, 9.30am–4.30pm. Booking required — no access without an appointment.
Residents must book in advance at sunderland.gov.uk/hwrc, providing name, address, email and vehicle registration; appointments are limited to five per rolling 28-day period and proof of address may be required. Cars, car-derived vans, vans and cars with trailers (up to 3m) are permitted, but vans with trailers are not. No trade or commercial waste. Check sunderland.gov.uk for current hours.
Why choose Select A Skip in Sunderland?
- 30+ years’ skip & waste experience
- 1,100+ licensed, vetted suppliers
- Domestic, trade & commercial welcome
- Next-day delivery in most SR postcodes
- Council permits handled for you
- Transparent pricing, no hidden charges
Skip hire FAQs.
We provide cheap, local and reliable domestic skip hire in Sunderland 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!
What we can provide
Other Services.
With more than 25years of trading history we have continuously developed the services we are now able to provide on a nationwide basis.
Choose your skip size in Sunderland
Not sure which size you need? Compare dimensions, capacity and typical uses — every size below is available in Sunderland.
Local area guide
Skip hire in Sunderland
Sunderland is a city in Tyne and Wear, sitting at the mouth of the River Wear on the North Sea around 12 miles south-east of Newcastle, with a population of around 175,000. It has one of the oldest Christian foundations in England: St Peter's Church at Monkwearmouth was founded in 674 by Benedict Biscop, and the monastery of Wearmouth-Jarrow was where the Venerable Bede lived and wrote in the eighth century. The church's Saxon tower and west wall survive, among the oldest standing church fabric in the country, and the Wearmouth-Jarrow site has been proposed for World Heritage status.
Sunderland's great industry was shipbuilding. From the fourteenth century boats were built on the Wear, and by the mid-nineteenth century Sunderland was described as the largest shipbuilding town in the world, with dozens of yards lining the river. At its peak in the 1900s and again in the Second World War, a quarter of the world's shipping was built on the Wear. Doxford's, Austin & Pickersgill and Laing's were among the great names; the last yard closed in 1988, ending around 650 years of shipbuilding in the city.
Sunderland also had a significant glass industry — the National Glass Centre on the riverside, on the site where Benedict Biscop brought glassmakers from Gaul in the seventh century to glaze his church, marks both the ancient and modern traditions. The Sunderland pottery of the nineteenth century, with its distinctive pink lustreware, is widely collected.
The city's modern economy was transformed in 1986 when Nissan opened its plant at Washington on Sunderland's edge. It has become the largest car factory in Britain, producing hundreds of thousands of vehicles a year and building electric cars and batteries, and it is by far the city's most significant employer. Sunderland was granted city status in 1992. The Stadium of Light, home of Sunderland AFC, stands on the site of the former Monkwearmouth Colliery, and Roker and Seaburn give the city an extensive seafront.
Sunderland sits on the A19 and A1231 with the A1(M) close by, and Sunderland station gives services to Newcastle, the Tyne and Wear Metro network, and direct trains to London King's Cross. Housing ranges from Victorian terraces and the distinctive single-storey Sunderland cottages — a local housing type found nowhere else on this scale — to substantial villas in Ashbrooke, interwar and post-war estates, and modern development on the riverside and former industrial land, with property among the most affordable in England.