Rubbish clearance & skip hire in South Ockendon
South Ockendon sits just outside the M25 on the western edge of Thurrock and is dominated by large post-war estates, including the Flowers Estate built by the Greater London Council, with newer housing at Brandon Groves on the old hospital site and on the former Ford factory site off Arisdale Avenue.
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Rubbish Clearance in South Ockendon
Rubbish cleared from your home, garden or business. Send us photos for a free estimate. Our crew does the lifting.
Get a free estimateSkip Hire in South Ockendon
2 to 16-yard skips delivered across Essex. Domestic driveways, building sites and commercial yards.
Prices & bookingMan & Van in South Ockendon
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 South Ockendon
Full or part house clearances handled with care: probate, end of tenancy, downsizing. Priced from your photos.
Get a free estimateWait & Load in South Ockendon
The truck waits while you load, with our driver's help. Book by the load, with no skip left behind or skip permit to arrange.
Prices & bookingGrab Hire in South Ockendon
8-wheel grab lorry for soil, hardcore and mixed loads. About 16 tonnes per full load, lifted straight onto the truck.
Prices & bookingGarden Clearance in South Ockendon
Green waste, soil, turf, branches, sheds and fencing cleared and recycled. Priced from your photos.
Get a free estimateBuilders Waste in South Ockendon
Rubble, plasterboard, timber and strip-out waste collected by the truck load. Your team loads, with our driver's help.
Prices & bookingSite Clearance in South Ockendon
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 South Ockendon
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: South Ockendon
Collections across South Ockendon
- Postcodes
- RM15
- From our yard
- South Ockendon is 30 minutes from our Wickford yard via the A132 south to the A13 at Pitsea, A13 west, then the B1335 Stifford Road, so same-day wait and load and clearances are realistic when you book before 11am. Skips, skip bags and the grab come from the next working day. Item collections run on our Tuesday and Thursday rounds, booked by 4pm the working day before.
- We cover
- Derwent Parade, Flowers Estate, Brandon Groves, Belhus, Ockendon station, Arisdale Avenue, South Road and The Green and St Nicholas Church
- Access
- The post-war estates are mainly terraces and low-rise flats, many with shared parking areas and garage blocks rather than private drives, so skip position and vehicle access need checking street by street; the newer developments have allocated bays and tighter estate roads.
- Council
- Thurrock Council · about 22,440 residents
Nearest tip to South Ockendon
- Site
- Linford Household Waste and Recycling Centre, Buckingham Hill Road, Linford, SS17 0PP
- Hours
- Open every day 8am to 4pm all year (gates shut 15 minutes before closing). Closed Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, Boxing Day, New Year's Day, Good Friday and Easter Sunday; New Year's Eve 8am to 12 noon.
- Rules
- No booking is needed, but the site is for Thurrock residents only and proof of address is required; trade waste is refused. Small vans and single-axle trailers under 1.8m need a council permit (6 visits a year, or 2 for a hired vehicle), trailers are only admitted on Tuesdays and Thursdays, and larger vehicles such as Ford Transits, Luton vans, tippers, flatbeds and minibuses are not allowed in. Alternative: Linford is the only household waste site in Thurrock and is on the far side of the borough from South Ockendon (roughly 8 miles by road). Essex County Council centres are restricted to residents of the Essex County Council area, so Thurrock households cannot use them.
Skip permits in South Ockendon
Thurrock Council is a unitary authority and issues its own skip permits through its Highways team; Essex County Council is not involved. A skip on your drive needs nothing; on the road it needs a licence, and we apply for you. Allow at least a week. Enquire online and we'll confirm the permit price and timing for your street before you book. Skip prices for South Ockendon →
About South Ockendon
Around 22,440 people. South Ockendon comes under Thurrock Council. House and flat clearances on the Flowers and Belhus estates; garage-block and garden clearances for tenants and landlords; renovation waste from the newer homes at Brandon Groves and Arisdale Avenue.
South Ockendon at a glance
Homes
South Ockendon grew from a village around The Green into a large post-war settlement. Prefabs of the late 1940s gave way to the Flowers Estate, built by the Greater London Council in the late 1960s as concrete-panel terraces in rows of eight. Brandon Groves followed after 1994 on the former hospital site, and newer homes occupy the old car-plant land off Arisdale Avenue. Mid-terrace houses have no side access, so garden waste and bulky items come through the house, and a weekday permit parking area covers closes such as Celandine Close and Tamarisk Road.
House clearance in South OckendonBuilding work
Current building in South Ockendon is largely council-led infill: 33 affordable homes at Broxburn Drive, 11 council homes on garage sites in Anton Road, proposals at West Road, and a scheme of 173 homes put forward for the Culver Centre site on Daiglen Drive. The former car-plant site on Arisdale Avenue has been redeveloped with about 650 homes. Refurbishment on the Flowers Estate has to allow for its large-panel concrete construction. Permit parking applies on some closes on weekdays between 10am and 3pm, which is worth checking before a skip goes on the road.
Skip hire in South OckendonBusinesses
The local centre is built around the pedestrianised Derwent Parade, flanked by Daiglen Drive and Derry Avenue, with 49 units including convenience stores, takeaways and two restaurants; on market day traders' vans park on the parade itself. Smaller parades serve the estates at Aire Drive, Broxburn Parade, Canterbury Parade, South Parade and Garron Lane. Industrial and warehouse units are found off Arisdale Avenue, including those on Arcany Road. Commercial waste here is chiefly cardboard, food waste and market-stall waste, with pallets and general trade waste from the industrial units.
Commercial waste in South OckendonWhat Thurrock 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
- £44.00 for either 1 item, 2 items or 3 items; a further £12.00 for each item in addition to the first 3; up to 8 items per booking.
- Leave items
- Left externally at the place where wheeled bins are usually collected, by 6am on the booked day; items left in a shared bin area must be labelled 'Bulky Waste' with the property number.
- Not taken
- No tonne or hippo bags; no commercial or business items (including commercial fridges and freezers); loose waste such as rubble or foliage must be bagged securely.
As published by the council, October 2026. Council page
- Charge
- £80 annual subscription for 2026/27 for 1 brown bin collected every 2 weeks (1 April 2026 to 31 March 2027); each additional bin £50.
- 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 South Ockendon?
South Ockendon is 30 minutes from our yard in Wickford via the A132 south to the A13 at Pitsea, A13 west, then the B1335 Stifford Road. Before 11am on a weekday we can usually come the same day for a wait and load or a clearance; after that it's the next working day. Skips, skip bags and the grab come from the next working day. Item collections run on our Tuesday and Thursday rounds, booked by 4pm the working day before.
Do I need a skip permit in South Ockendon?
Only on the public road. Thurrock Council is a unitary authority and issues its own skip permits through its Highways team; Essex County Council is not involved, 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 South Ockendon?
Linford Household Waste and Recycling Centre, Buckingham Hill Road, Linford, SS17 0PP. No booking is needed, but the site is for Thurrock residents only and proof of address is required; trade waste is refused. Small vans and single-axle trailers under 1.8m need a council permit (6 visits a year, or 2 for a hired vehicle), trailers are only admitted on Tuesdays and Thursdays, and larger vehicles such as Ford Transits, Luton vans, tippers, flatbeds and minibuses are not allowed in.
Which South Ockendon postcodes do you cover?
RM15, and everything around them: Derwent Parade, Flowers Estate, Brandon Groves, Belhus, Ockendon station, Arisdale Avenue.
Book a collection in South Ockendon
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