Rubbish clearance & skip hire in Chipping Ongar
Chipping Ongar is a small market town in the Epping Forest district built along a narrow High Street, with housing estates at Shelley to the north and Marden Ash to the south and farmland and rural lanes all around. There is no recycling centre in the town; the nearest is Brentwood's at Coxtie Green Road, about 6 miles away.
Every service in Chipping Ongar
Each one has its own Chipping Ongar page with prices and local detail.
Rubbish Clearance in Chipping Ongar
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 Chipping Ongar
2 to 16-yard skips delivered across Essex. Domestic driveways, building sites and commercial yards.
Prices & bookingMan & Van in Chipping Ongar
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 Chipping Ongar
Full or part house clearances handled with care: probate, end of tenancy, downsizing. Priced from your photos.
Get a free estimateWait & Load in Chipping Ongar
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 Chipping Ongar
8-wheel grab lorry for soil, hardcore and mixed loads. 16 tonnes a load, lifted over the wall in minutes.
Prices & bookingGarden Clearance in Chipping Ongar
Green waste, soil, turf, branches, sheds and fencing cleared and recycled. Priced from your photos.
Get a free estimateBuilders Waste in Chipping Ongar
Rubble, plasterboard, timber, packaging and strip-out waste taken from site by the truck load, same or next day.
Prices & bookingSite Clearance in Chipping Ongar
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 Chipping Ongar
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: Chipping Ongar
Collections across Chipping Ongar
- Postcodes
- CM5
- From our yard
- Chipping Ongar is about 35 minutes from our Wickford yard via the A129 via Billericay to Brentwood, then A128. 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
- High Street, Marden Ash, Shelley, Greensted, Coopers Hill, Fyfield Road, Four Wantz roundabout and Ongar Castle
- Access
- Period cottages and terraces fronting a narrow High Street with little off-street parking, post-war estates with driveways at Shelley and Marden Ash, and farms and hamlets on rural lanes.
- Council
- Epping Forest District Council · about 7,136 residents
Nearest tip to Chipping Ongar
- Site
- Brentwood Recycling Centre, Coxtie Green Road, Brentwood, CM14 5PN
- 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: Harlow Recycling Centre, Temple Bank, CM20 2DY (about 11 miles) is also open every day and takes booked vans and limited household DIY waste.
Skip permits in Chipping Ongar
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 Chipping Ongar →
About Chipping Ongar
Around 7,136 people. Chipping Ongar comes under Epping Forest District Council. Cottage and house clearances off the narrow High Street; garage and garden clear-outs on the Shelley and Marden Ash estates; farm, stable and outbuilding clearances on the surrounding lanes.
Chipping Ongar at a glance
Homes
Chipping Ongar's High Street is a conservation area with around 70 listed buildings, and at its narrowest the houses and shops stand very close to the carriageway. North of the centre, towards Shelley, a post-war council estate planned for about 450 houses was laid out between the Moreton and Epping roads, mostly two-storey homes with modest gardens. Marden Ash to the south and Greensted to the south-west are smaller settlements within the parish. High Street properties rarely have vehicle access at the front, whereas the estate houses are usually reached directly from the road.
House clearance in Chipping OngarBuilding work
The Local Plan allocates housing sites around Ongar, including land west of Ongar for about 99 homes, guided by a concept framework, and Bowes Field for about 135, and an application has also come forward on land at Fyfield Road. Renovation of listed buildings in the High Street conservation area requires consent, and the narrow stretch of the High Street leaves no room for a skip on the carriageway. Post-war houses towards Shelley are typical candidates for extensions and loft conversions. Off-street space near the centre exists at The Pleasance car park and around Bansons Lane.
Skip hire in Chipping OngarBusinesses
Ongar's shops, pubs and cafés are strung along the High Street, with a supermarket on Bansons Lane that opened in 1998. Office-based firms are found at the Essex Technology and Innovation Centre at The Gables on Fyfield Road, and the heritage Epping Ongar Railway brings visitors to Ongar station. Most businesses are small, producing cardboard, food waste and general refuse, with occasional shop-fit and office clear-out waste. The High Street is a widened market street that narrows sharply in places, so loading is easier from the wider central section.
Commercial waste in Chipping OngarWhat Epping Forest District 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
- 1 to 3 items £34.80; 4 to 7 items £52.80; 8 to 10 items £69.60 (totals including VAT).
- Leave items
- At the front of the property on the boundary, in the open and clearly visible, by 6.30am; no collection from garages or covered storage; flats: outside the communal entrance, in the communal bin area or in the resident's own parking space.
- Not taken
- No garden waste, soil, building waste, carpet or underlay, worktops, fixtures or fittings, hazardous waste or paint, pianos, glass or items containing glass, fence panels, sheds or greenhouses, or large American-style fridge….
As published by the council, October 2026. Council page
- Charge
- £60 for garden waste collections from 1 April to 31 March (fixed period, no pro-rata charge); each additional bin needs its own £30 subscription, and additional bins cost £35 each.
- 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 Chipping Ongar?
Not usually the same day. Chipping Ongar is about 35 minutes from our yard in Wickford via the A129 via Billericay to Brentwood, then A128, so we book Chipping Ongar jobs for the next working day and give you a two-hour arrival window 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 Chipping Ongar?
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 Chipping Ongar?
Brentwood Recycling Centre, Coxtie Green Road, Brentwood, CM14 5PN. 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 Chipping Ongar postcodes do you cover?
CM5, and everything around them: High Street, Marden Ash, Shelley, Greensted, Coopers Hill, Fyfield Road.
Book a collection in Chipping Ongar
Pick what needs collecting, see the price, choose a day. We confirm by text and take card payment.