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Skip Permits in Welwyn Garden City
Welwyn Garden City sits within Welwyn Hatfield Borough Council, but the roads are managed by Hertfordshire County Council, so skip licences come from the county. A skip on your driveway or other private land doesn't need one. If it has to go on the road, verge or pavement, the skip company must apply, and we arrange that for you.
| Council | Hertfordshire County Council (highways) |
|---|---|
| Licence cost | £54 for 14 days, then £28 for each extra week |
| Notice needed | At least 5 working days. The council says applications usually take around 3 weeks to process, so book early |
| Maximum skip size on the road | 5m long and 2m wide |
| Placement | Around 150mm from the kerb, not blocking access to any property, drains, fire hydrants or inspection covers. Full skips must be collected within two days |
| Lighting and marking | Yellow ends with broad red and yellow reflective diagonal stripes, lit from half an hour before sunset to half an hour after sunrise, and at least four cones where the council asks for them |
| Unlicensed skips | The council can remove a skip from the road without notice and recharge the costs, plus any repairs to the highway |
| Applied for by | The skip company, which must hold £10 million public liability cover. We sort this for you |
Plenty of homes in Welwyn Garden City sit on quiet closes, shared parking courts and roads lined with wide grass verges, where a skip can't always go on the drive. Tell us about parking and access when you ask for a quote and we'll arrange the licence if one is needed.
Welwyn Garden City Recycling Centre
The town's tip is on Tewin Road, in the industrial area on the east side of Welwyn Garden City. It's run by Hertfordshire County Council and has a reuse shop on site.
| Address | Tewin Road, Welwyn Garden City AL7 1BD |
|---|---|
| Opening hours | 10am to 5.30pm, 7 days a week. Open bank holidays except Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New Year's Day |
| Proof of address | Bring a driving licence, Council Tax bill, Hertfordshire bus pass or utility bill |
| Vans and trailers | You need an ePass, as do visitors from outside Hertfordshire |
| DIY waste | Free allowance of 2 x 50 litre bags of rubble or 1 bulky item per week, from small household jobs only. Extra rubble, soil or wood is £10 per 100 litres and plasterboard is £12 per 100 litres |
| Asbestos | Fridays only, booked in advance. One bag of bonded white asbestos (up to 20kg), double bagged in approved packaging, once per household every 12 months |
The free DIY allowance is small and anything over it is charged by the bag, so a bigger job soon adds up in fees and trips. For a kitchen or bathroom refit, a garden clearance or clearing out a house, a skip on your drive is usually the simpler option.
Skip hire FAQs.
We provide cheap, local and reliable domestic skip hire in Welwyn Garden City 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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Local area guide
Skip hire in Welwyn Garden City
Welwyn Garden City is a town in Hertfordshire, sitting around 20 miles north of London, with a population of around 48,000. It is one of the most important planned towns in the world — the second garden city in England, founded in 1920 by Sir Ebenezer Howard, the originator of the garden city movement, following Letchworth, which he had established in 1903. Howard's vision was of self-contained towns combining the best of town and country, with generous green space, planned housing, industry and a surrounding agricultural belt, and Welwyn was designed to put that vision into practice.
The town was laid out by the architect Louis de Soissons, and his neo-Georgian design gives Welwyn Garden City its remarkably coherent appearance. The centrepiece is Parkway, a mile-long tree-lined boulevard with a central lawn and fountain running through the heart of the town, and the town's residential streets are arranged in cul-de-sacs and closes with houses set back behind verges and trees. The whole town was planned in a single consistent style, and much of it is protected by an estate management scheme that controls alterations to preserve its character.
Welwyn Garden City developed a strong industrial and commercial base, which was part of Howard's original plan. The Shredded Wheat factory, built in 1926 with its striking white concrete grain silos, became a local landmark and a listed building; the silos are among the most recognisable examples of early twentieth-century industrial architecture in Britain. The town was also home to Roche, ICI and Smith Kline & French, giving it a significant pharmaceutical presence. The Howard Centre shopping centre, named after the town's founder, stands beside the station.
After the Second World War, Welwyn Garden City was designated one of the first new towns under the New Towns Act of 1946, and it expanded further under a development corporation. The town's green belt setting, extensive parkland and woodland — including Sherrardspark Wood, an ancient woodland nature reserve on the town's western edge — reflect its garden city origins. The neighbouring village of Welwyn, from which the town took its name, lies a mile north.
Welwyn Garden City sits close to the A1(M) at junctions 4 to 6, with Welwyn Garden City station on the East Coast Main Line giving services to London King's Cross and Moorgate in around 25 minutes. Housing is dominated by de Soissons' neo-Georgian houses from the 1920s and 30s, alongside post-war new town estates at Hatfield Hyde and Panshanger, and modern development on the town's edges, with values well above the national average given the town's character and fast London link.