Rubbish clearance & skip hire in Colchester
Colchester is the largest settlement in north Essex, with narrow streets inside the Roman walls, Victorian terraces in New Town and around the Hythe, and large estates and new-build districts at Greenstead, Highwoods, Mile End and Stanway. Commercial premises are concentrated at Severalls Business Park, the Hythe and Tollgate.
Every service in Colchester
Each one has its own Colchester page with prices and local detail.
Rubbish Clearance in Colchester
No skip, no permit. Tell us what's going, add a photo, and we'll price it. Our crew does all the lifting.
Get a free estimateSkip Hire in Colchester
2 to 16-yard skips delivered across Essex. Domestic driveways, building sites and commercial yards.
Prices & bookingMan & Van in Colchester
Our crew and a caged truck for the items and bags you want gone. Leave it out the front and we load it, with a waste transfer note every time.
Prices & bookingHouse Clearance in Colchester
Full or part house clearances handled with care: probate, end of tenancy, downsizing. Priced from your photos.
Get a free estimateWait & Load in Colchester
The truck by the load. It waits while you load, with our driver helping. No skip on the road and no permit.
Prices & bookingGrab Hire in Colchester
8-wheel grab lorry for soil, hardcore and mixed loads. 16 tonnes a load, lifted over the wall in minutes.
Prices & bookingGarden Clearance in Colchester
Green waste, soil, turf, branches, sheds and fencing cleared and recycled. Priced from your photos.
Get a free estimateBuilders Waste in Colchester
Rubble, plasterboard, timber, packaging and strip-out waste taken from site by the truck load, same or next day.
Prices & bookingSite Clearance in Colchester
Plots, yards and building sites cleared of vegetation, rubble, rubbish and old structures, ready for the next trade.
Get a free estimateWait & load prices in Colchester
The truck by the load: you load, our driver helps, and nothing is left on the road. Want us to do the lifting? Build a collection from the item list instead.
About 25 to 30 bin bags, or the waste from a small bathroom strip-out.
About the same as a 6-yard skip, without a skip sitting on the road.
Builders' waste after a refit, a shop strip-out or a big flat clear-out.
The whole truck: site clear-ups, office strip-outs, large garden and shed jobs.
Local knowledge: Colchester
Collections across Colchester
- Postcodes
- CO1, CO2, CO3, CO4
- From our yard
- Colchester is about 40 minutes from our Wickford yard via the A130 then A12. Collections are booked for the next working day. Item collections run on our Tuesday and Thursday rounds, booked by 4pm the working day before.
- We cover
- Lexden, Shrub End, Greenstead, Mile End, Highwoods, The Hythe, Tollgate, Stanway and Severalls Business Park
- Access
- Narrow streets in the walled centre and Dutch Quarter, Victorian terraces with on-street parking in New Town and around the Hythe, flats on the former garrison and riverside sites, and large estates and new-build districts at Greenstead, Highwoods, Mile End and Stanway.
- Council
- Colchester City Council · about 130,248 residents
Nearest tip to Colchester
- Site
- Colchester Recycling Centre, 221 Shrub End Road, Shrub End, Colchester, CO3 4RN
- Hours
- 9am to 5pm every day from 1 March to 15 October, 9am to 4pm every day from 16 October to the end of February. Closed Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New Year's Day.
- Rules
- Every visit must be booked in advance (Blue Badge holders, pedestrians and cyclists are exempt). Vans, pick-ups and large trailers are accepted with a separate van booking, and limited amounts of DIY waste from your own home are accepted. Alternative: West Mersea Recycling Centre, Upland Road, CO5 8DX is cars only, takes no DIY waste or rubble and is closed every Wednesday, Thursday and Sunday.
Skip permits in Colchester
Essex Highways issues skip licences here, not the district council. A skip on your drive needs nothing; on the road it needs a licence, and we apply for you. Allow 10 working days. Size limit on the road: 6-yard maximum on the highway; anything bigger needs a driveway or private land. Enquire online and we'll confirm the permit price and timing for your street before you book. Skip prices for Colchester →
About Colchester
Around 130,248 people. Colchester comes under Colchester City Council. House and flat clearances in terraced streets with permit parking; builders' and renovation waste from extensions on the suburban estates; office, shop and unit clearances at Severalls, the Hythe and Tollgate.
Colchester at a glance
Homes
Colchester's housing ranges from the Dutch Quarter, with old houses on West Stockwell Street, East Stockwell Street and Maidenburgh Street just north of the High Street, to the New Town estate of about 470 houses built from the 1880s, now a conservation area. Greenstead is a large post-war estate of houses and flats, Highwoods was built in the early 1980s, and Lexden has its own village conservation area. Flats in Greenstead and the riverside blocks at the Hythe mean carrying items down stairs, while the terraced streets of New Town rely on kerbside space rather than driveways.
House clearance in ColchesterBuilding work
Large-scale building continues at Chesterwell in Mile End, a phased scheme of 1,600 homes begun in 2015, and on former garrison land south of the centre, planned for just over 2,500 homes including converted cavalry barracks. The Hythe waterfront has seen years of regeneration with new apartments. Renovation in the Dutch Quarter, New Town, Lexden Village and Garrison conservation areas is subject to heritage controls. The High Street, Head Street and Culver Street East carry waiting and loading restrictions, so deliveries and skips must be planned around marked loading bays.
Skip hire in ColchesterBusinesses
Retail is focused on the High Street, the pedestrianised Culver Square and the Lion Walk shopping centre, where deliveries use service areas and on-street loading bays. To the west, Stanway's Tollgate area and Stane Retail Park hold large-format stores. Severalls Industrial Park, beside the A12 and A120 interchange, is the main industrial location, with further trade units on the Whitehall Industrial Estate about two miles south of the centre and along Cowdray Avenue. Between them these sites produce packaging, pallets, shop-fit strip-out and trade waste in quantity.
Commercial waste in ColchesterWhat Colchester City Council offers
The council's own collections, for comparison. They take items left outside. We collect from the front or somewhere easy to reach on our Tuesday and Thursday rounds, and can carry things out from inside for an hourly charge.
- Charge
- Electrical and white goods: £19 per item (£39 for fridges and freezers). Other large household items such as beds, sofas and wardrobes: £77 for up to six items, £100 for six to twelve items.
- Leave items
- Left on the kerbside outside the property by 7am, in clear view, not in communal areas; crews will not enter garages or properties.
- Not taken
- No glass or mirrors (must be removed before collection); no tins of paint; payment is non-refundable.
As published by the council, October 2026. Council page
- Charge
- £65.00 per bin annual service fee for 2026/27 (subscriptions end 31 March 2027); new subscribers also pay a one-off £34.99 joining fee per bin. Half-price service fee (£32.50) for subscriptions paid between 1 September and 30 November 2026.
- Takes
- Garden waste that fits the bin or sack. No soil, rubble, sheds or fencing.
As published by the council, October 2026. Council page
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Questions people ask
How quickly can you get to Colchester?
We cover Colchester from Wickford, about 40 minutes away via the A130 then A12, so it's booked rather than same-day: usually the next working day, with a two-hour arrival window sent by text. Item collections run on our Tuesday and Thursday rounds, booked by 4pm the working day before.
Do I need a skip permit in Colchester?
Only on the public road. Essex Highways issues skip licences here, not the district council, and we apply for you. On a driveway, nothing is needed. Enquire online and we'll confirm the permit price and timing for your street before you book.
Where's the nearest tip to Colchester?
Colchester Recycling Centre, 221 Shrub End Road, Shrub End, Colchester, CO3 4RN. Every visit must be booked in advance (Blue Badge holders, pedestrians and cyclists are exempt). Vans, pick-ups and large trailers are accepted with a separate van booking, and limited amounts of DIY waste from your own home are accepted.
Which Colchester postcodes do you cover?
CO1, CO2, CO3, CO4, and everything around them: Lexden, Shrub End, Greenstead, Mile End, Highwoods, The Hythe.
Book a collection in Colchester
Pick what needs collecting, see the price, choose a day. We confirm by text and take card payment.