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01834-940055Skip hire in Tenby & across Pembrokeshire
We’ve delivered skips across Tenby for over 30 years — for homeowners clearing out, tradespeople on site, and businesses managing regular waste. Fast delivery throughout the SA70 postcode area, with a local team you can actually get on the phone.
Skip sizes available in Tenby
Do I need a permit?
A skip on your driveway or private land needs no permit. For a public road in Tenby, a permit is required from Pembrokeshire County Council — we arrange it for you as part of the booking.
Areas we cover near Tenby
Tenby household waste recycling centres
Prefer to drop off smaller amounts yourself? Here’s what serves Tenby:
- Crane Cross Waste & Recycling Centre — near Saundersfoot, SA69 9EE. This is the designated centre for the Tenby and Saundersfoot area.
All Pembrokeshire centres are pre-booked only — book online or call 01437 764551 (Monday–Friday 5pm–7pm, Saturday–Sunday 8am–noon). Cars and small vans have no annual limit; larger vehicles, trailers and vehicles with commercial signage are limited to 12 visits a year. Bring ID matching the address on your booking.
Why choose Select A Skip in Tenby?
- 30+ years’ skip & waste experience
- 1,100+ licensed, vetted suppliers
- Domestic, trade & commercial welcome
- Next-day delivery in most SA70 postcodes
- Council permits handled for you
- Transparent pricing, no hidden charges
Skip hire FAQs.
We provide cheap, local and reliable domestic skip hire in Tenby 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
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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.
Choose your skip size in Tenby
Not sure which size you need? Compare dimensions, capacity and typical uses — every size below is available in Tenby.
Local area guide
Skip hire in Tenby
Tenby — Dinbych-y-pysgod in Welsh, meaning little fortress of the fish — is a walled seaside town in Pembrokeshire, sitting on the western side of Carmarthen Bay, with a population of around 4,500. It has been a fortified settlement since at least the ninth century, when a Welsh poem praised the fort on the headland, and the Normans built a castle there in the twelfth century. The town grew as a port trading with Ireland, Bristol and France, and it prospered enough to warrant a full circuit of stone walls, begun in the thirteenth century.
Those walls are Tenby's defining feature. Around two-thirds of the medieval circuit survives, one of the finest surviving sets of town walls in Wales, and the Five Arches barbican gate on the western side is the most complete. Within them the old town retains its medieval street pattern of narrow lanes, with the fifteenth-century Tudor Merchant's House — now in the care of the National Trust — giving a picture of a prosperous trader's home, and St Mary's Church, the largest parish church in Wales.
Tenby's second life began in the late eighteenth century, when Sir William Paxton, a wealthy London banker, invested heavily in developing the town as a fashionable sea-bathing resort, building baths and improving the town. The Georgian and Regency houses painted in pastel colours that line the harbour and the clifftops date from that period and give Tenby its distinctive postcard appearance. Augustus John and his sister Gwen John, two of the most significant British painters of the early twentieth century, grew up in the town.
The town has four beaches — North Beach, South Beach, Castle Beach and Harbour Beach — and Caldey Island, three miles offshore, has been home to a monastic community for some 1,500 years. Today it is run by Cistercian monks who make perfume, chocolate and shortbread, and boat trips run from Tenby harbour in summer. St Catherine's Island, with its Victorian fort, stands just off Castle Beach and is accessible at low tide.
Tenby lies within the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park, with the Coast Path running through, and sits on the A478 with the A477 close by. Tenby station on the line to Pembroke Dock gives services to Carmarthen, Swansea and beyond. Housing ranges from medieval and Georgian property within the walls — heavily listed and within a conservation area — to Victorian villas and terraces, post-war housing and modern development on the edges, with holiday lets and second homes forming a very large share of the town's stock.