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Skip Permits in West Bromwich
West Bromwich is covered by Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council, which licenses skips on its roads. A skip on your driveway or other private land doesn't need a permit. If it has to go on the road, only a skip company on the council's register can apply, and we take care of it for you.
| Council | Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council |
|---|---|
| Permit cost | £48 for up to 10 days, then £30 for each further 10 days |
| Notice needed | The council asks for 3 days, although permits are often issued the same day |
| Placement | Normally on the road. Pavement or verge only with permission and surface protection |
| Limit | One skip per property at a time. Even a skip on the road for half an hour needs a permit |
| Retrospective licence | £230, plus possible prosecution under the Highways Act 1980 |
| Applied for by | A registered skip company (that's us) |
Sandwell permits only run for 10 days at a time, so if your job will take longer, tell us when you book and we'll handle the renewals.
West Bromwich Recycling Centre
Sandwell has one tip for the whole borough, the Household Recycling Centre on Shidas Lane in Oldbury, a few miles from West Bromwich town centre. It's run by Serco for the council.
| Address | Shidas Lane, Oldbury B69 2BP |
|---|---|
| Opening hours | 8am to 4pm every day (7am to 4pm from 1 June to 30 September). Closed Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New Year's Day |
| Booking | Every visit must be booked. Sandwell postcodes only |
| Vans, pickups and trailers | One booking every four weeks |
| Hardcore and rubble | 8 bags or 200kg a month |
| Soil and ceramics | 8 bags or 200kg a month |
| Plasterboard | 8 bags or 200kg a month |
| Currently not accepted | Fridges and freezers |
One tip for the whole of Sandwell, booked slots that fill up at weekends and a monthly cap on rubble make it hard going for a building job. For a kitchen, bathroom or garden project, a skip at your door gets it done in one go.
Skip hire FAQs.
We provide cheap, local and reliable domestic skip hire in West Bromwich 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 West Bromwich
West Bromwich is a town in the West Midlands, sitting around five miles north-west of Birmingham city centre, with a population of around 75,000 — the administrative centre of the Metropolitan Borough of Sandwell. It was a scattered heathland village for most of its history, recorded in the Domesday Book, and it grew along the line of the Holyhead Road, Thomas Telford's great route between London and Holyhead, which became its High Street.
The town's transformation came with the Industrial Revolution. West Bromwich sat on the edge of the Black Country coalfield, and it developed into a major centre for iron founding, nail making, spring making and later the manufacture of goods from locks to buses. The Salter company, founded in the eighteenth century, made spring balances and scales here and became one of the most recognised names in weighing equipment; the town's most famous industrial product was the Salter kitchen scale. Its industrial heritage is shared with the neighbouring towns of Wednesbury, Tipton, Oldbury and Smethwick.
West Bromwich's most celebrated institution is West Bromwich Albion Football Club, founded in 1878 by workers from the Salter spring works. A founding member of the Football League in 1888, Albion has won the FA Cup five times and the League title once, in 1920, and The Hawthorns — at around 550 feet above sea level — is the highest ground in English league football. The club is central to the town's identity.
The town's oldest building is Oak House, a timber-framed yeoman's house dating from the sixteenth century, now a museum set in gardens. Sandwell Valley Country Park, occupying the site of the medieval Sandwell Priory on the town's edge, provides over 600 acres of parkland, farmland and nature reserves, and the RSPB Sandwell Valley reserve is an important urban wildlife site. The Public, an arts centre opened in 2008 in a striking building by Will Alsop, stood in the town centre before its conversion to a college.
West Bromwich sits close to junctions 1 and 2 of the M5 and the M6, with the West Midlands Metro running through the town to Birmingham and Wolverhampton. Housing ranges from Victorian terraces built for the industrial workforce to interwar semis, extensive post-war estates, and modern development on former industrial land, with the town having a large and long-established South Asian community and property among the more affordable in the West Midlands.