Rubbish clearance & skip hire in Tilbury
Tilbury grew up as a dock town beside the Port of Tilbury, and most of its housing is terraces and flats laid out between Calcutta Road, St Chad's Road and the railway. The port and the warehousing off the A1089 make it one of the main freight and logistics areas in Thurrock.
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Rubbish Clearance in Tilbury
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 Tilbury
2 to 16-yard skips delivered across Essex. Domestic driveways, building sites and commercial yards.
Prices & bookingMan & Van in Tilbury
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 Tilbury
Full or part house clearances handled with care: probate, end of tenancy, downsizing. Priced from your photos.
Get a free estimateWait & Load in Tilbury
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 Tilbury
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 Tilbury
Green waste, soil, turf, branches, sheds and fencing cleared and recycled. Priced from your photos.
Get a free estimateBuilders Waste in Tilbury
Rubble, plasterboard, timber and strip-out waste collected by the truck load. Your team loads, with our driver's help.
Prices & bookingSite Clearance in Tilbury
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 Tilbury
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: Tilbury
Collections across Tilbury
- Postcodes
- RM18
- From our yard
- Tilbury is 25 minutes from our Wickford yard via the A132 south to the A13 at Pitsea, A13 west, then the A1089 south to Tilbury, 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
- Port of Tilbury, Tilbury Fort, London Cruise Terminal, Civic Square, Calcutta Road, Dock Road, St Chad's Road and Thurrock Park Way
- Access
- Mostly terraced houses and blocks of flats with limited off-street parking, so a skip commonly needs a road permit, and the A1089 dock approach carries heavy lorry traffic to the port.
- Council
- Thurrock Council · about 14,184 residents
Nearest tip to Tilbury
- 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. Essex County Council centres such as Pitsea are restricted to residents of the Essex County Council area, so Thurrock households cannot use them.
Skip permits in Tilbury
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 Tilbury →
About Tilbury
Around 14,184 people. Tilbury comes under Thurrock Council. House clearances in the terraced streets off Calcutta Road and St Chad's Road; flat and communal-area clearances for landlords and housing providers; trade and warehouse waste collections around the port and Thurrock Park Way.
Tilbury at a glance
Homes
Tilbury grew with its docks from the late nineteenth century, and much of its housing is council-built: the urban district council formed in 1912 began a programme that ran through the 1920s, and the Broadway Estate followed in the 1960s. Residential streets including Adelaide Road, Toronto Road, Malta Road and Dock Road lie within controlled parking zones T1 to T4, which operate Monday to Friday, 8am to 6pm. Before bulky furniture or garden waste is cleared, it helps to check whether a collection vehicle can stop outside during those hours.
House clearance in TilburyBuilding work
The Tilbury Town Deal, awarded in July 2021, is funding public-realm improvements at Civic Square, a gateway scheme around Tilbury Town station and heritage links along Ferry Road towards the riverside and Tilbury Fort. The 1960s Broadway Estate has been through a regeneration programme that included self-build homes, and the inter-war council houses are the kind of stock that attracts refurbishment, rear extensions and loft work. Dock Road is a busy through-road and the neighbouring streets are in controlled parking zones, so skip positions and lorry stops are worth agreeing before work starts.
Skip hire in TilburyBusinesses
The Port of Tilbury shapes local commerce, handling containers, timber, paper, cars and bulk cargo, with the Tilbury2 terminal, the London Cruise Terminal and the warehouses of London Distribution Park and Thurrock Park Way close by. These sites generate pallets, packaging, strapping and damaged stock. In the town, the central shopping area takes in Civic Square, Calcutta Road and Montreal Road, a second group of shops and cafes lines Dock Road beside Tilbury Town station, and parades stand on St Chad's Road. Traders are mostly independents, producing cardboard, food waste and shopfitting debris.
Commercial waste in TilburyWhat 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 Tilbury?
Tilbury is 25 minutes from our yard in Wickford via the A132 south to the A13 at Pitsea, A13 west, then the A1089 south to Tilbury. Same-day wait and load and clearances may be available if you contact us before 11am on a weekday. We confirm availability and, for clearances, agree the price before booking. 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 Tilbury?
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 Tilbury?
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 Tilbury postcodes do you cover?
RM18, and everything around them: Port of Tilbury, Tilbury Fort, London Cruise Terminal, Civic Square, Calcutta Road, Dock Road.
Book a collection in Tilbury
Book items, skips or wait and load online. For a clearance, send the details and photos for a free estimate. You can also call us if you're unsure which service to choose.