Hitchin Skip Hire
Skips, roll-on/roll-off containers and grab hire for Hitchin, arranged through licensed local carriers. You see the price online before you book, with the council's permit fee shown separately where the container goes on the road.
Hire a skip in Hitchin
There was a time when a trip to the local tip was almost a Sunday ritual. These days it's more of a chore: tighter rules on what the recycling centre will accept, queues to sit in, and the near-certainty of a puncture from someone else's stray nails and screws. Hire a van for a bigger load and you may even be quizzed about a waste permit. A skip on your own drive sidesteps all of it — you fill it in your own time and we take it away.
Hauling waste back and forth to a vehicle is hard, sometimes hazardous work. Bulky garden fencing is a classic culprit: too big to fit in the car, so it ends up stacked behind the shed where it slowly becomes a five-star habitat for rats. Back strains and broken glass are the other hidden costs of a DIY dump run. With a skip delivered to your Hitchin property, the heavy lifting and the safe disposal both become our problem, not yours.
There is a range of sizes, so you only pay for what you need: smaller skips that sit neatly on a front driveway and suit a clear-out or small project, builders' skips for home improvements, and roll-on/roll-off containers for commercial sites and large jobs. The sizes on sale, with the price of each for a Hitchin postcode, are listed further down this page. Tell us what you're shifting and we'll point you to the right one.
We are a registered waste carrier and broker, and every carrier we arrange work with is checked on the Environment Agency's public register — no fly-tipping, no shortcuts.
Putting one on the road
Skip permits in Hitchin
A skip standing on a public road, pavement or verge in Hitchin needs a permit under the Highways Act 1980. Here that comes from Hertfordshire County Council. On a driveway or other private ground none is needed at all.
We arrange it as part of the booking and the council's charge is passed through at cost — itemised in your price, before you pay, rather than added afterwards.
What Hertfordshire County Council charges
- Council's fee
- £54 for the first 14 days, then £28 to renew
- Notice
- None held
- With us, 14 days (incl. VAT)
- £64.80
- Read from
- Council's page, 8 Aug 2026
The council's fee is what the council publishes for a standard skip licence, as the council states it; it carries no VAT. "To renew" is the council's fee for extending the licence; how long each renewal lasts is on the council's own page.
Booked with Waste Central with enough notice, 14 days on the road adds £64.80 to your total, including VAT. Nothing is added for arranging it: that is the council's fee as read, for those days, plus VAT. Two things are not in these figures and are priced when you book: a charge for booking at short notice, and a parking bay suspension where the skip takes a marked bay. In some councils with controlled parking zones, the on-road price you see first assumes a bay is needed until you say it is not.
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Skip sizes & prices in Hitchin
Prices, including VAT, quoted at a Hitchin postcode (SG5 1DJ) for the sizes we arrange. Your exact price depends on your postcode, waste type and where the skip goes — compare every size on our skip sizes page or get a live price online.
- From£288.00incl. VAT
4 Yard Skip
~40 bin bags
- From£348.00incl. VAT
6 Yard Skip
~60 bin bags
- From£360.00incl. VAT
8 Yard Skip
~80 bin bags
- From£372.00incl. VAT
8 Yard Enclosed Skip
~80 bin bags
- From£486.00incl. VAT
12 Yard Skip
~120 bin bags
- From£498.00incl. VAT
12 Yard Enclosed Skip
~120 bin bags
- From£582.00incl. VAT
16 Yard Skip
~160 bin bags
- From£636.00incl. VAT
20 Yard RoRo
- From£636.00incl. VAT
40 Yard RoRo
- From£360.00incl. VAT
Half Load Cage Van
~50 bin bags
- From£504.00incl. VAT
Full Load Cage Van
~100 bin bags
A guide price for a private-property (driveway) delivery with general mixed waste, at a Hitchin postcode (SG5 1DJ) — prices can differ by area, so enter your postcode for yours.
Bag counts assume full 60-litre bin bags — about 10 to a cubic yard. Bulky items take more room than bags.
Skip hire in Hitchin: your questions
Do I need a permit for a skip in Hitchin?
Only if it stands on a public road, pavement or verge — on your own drive or land you need none. In Hitchin the permit comes from Hertfordshire County Council, which — not the district council — licenses the roads there. It is arranged for you as part of the booking, and you see it as its own line in the price before you pay.
How much is a skip permit in Hitchin?
Hertfordshire County Council charges £54 for the first 14 days, then £28 to renew (read from the council's page on 8 Aug 2026). Booked with Waste Central with enough notice, 14 days on the road adds £64.80 to your total, including VAT. Nothing is added for arranging it: that is the council's fee as read, for those days, plus VAT.
How much notice does a skip permit need in Hitchin?
Waste Central holds no notice period for Hertfordshire County Council, so none is given here. The booking calendar marks the dates that cost more, because a permit arranged at short notice can cost more. On your own drive none of this applies: there is no permit and nothing to wait for.
How much does skip hire cost in Hitchin?
At a Hitchin postcode (SG5 1DJ), skip hire runs from £288 for a 4-yard skip to £582 for a 16-yard skip, including VAT — for general mixed waste, delivered to a driveway. A council permit is extra where the skip stands on the road. Prices can differ by area, so enter your own postcode for yours.
How soon can a skip be delivered in Hitchin?
Deliveries can be booked from the next day, Monday to Saturday — Sundays and bank holidays are not offered. A skip going on the road waits for its council permit, so a delivery to a driveway is usually the quickest.