Rubbish clearance & skip hire in Witham
Witham expanded rapidly as a London overspill town from the 1960s, so most homes sit on planned estates either side of the railway, with industrial estates at Freebournes and Eastways and newer housing off Maltings Lane. The town's own recycling centre on Perry Road takes cars only, closes on Thursdays and does not accept DIY waste or rubble.
Every service in Witham
Each one has its own Witham page with prices and local detail.
Rubbish Clearance in Witham
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 Witham
2 to 16-yard skips delivered across Essex. Domestic driveways, building sites and commercial yards.
Prices & bookingMan & Van in Witham
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 Witham
Full or part house clearances handled with care: probate, end of tenancy, downsizing. Priced from your photos.
Get a free estimateWait & Load in Witham
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 Witham
8-wheel grab lorry for soil, hardcore and mixed loads. 16 tonnes a load, lifted over the wall in minutes.
Prices & bookingGarden Clearance in Witham
Green waste, soil, turf, branches, sheds and fencing cleared and recycled. Priced from your photos.
Get a free estimateBuilders Waste in Witham
Rubble, plasterboard, timber, packaging and strip-out waste taken from site by the truck load, same or next day.
Prices & bookingSite Clearance in Witham
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 Witham
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: Witham
Collections across Witham
- Postcodes
- CM8
- From our yard
- Witham is 25 minutes from our Wickford yard via the A130 then A12, 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
- Newland Street, Chipping Hill, Freebournes Industrial Estate, Eastways Industrial Estate, Maltings Lane, Templars estate, Powers Hall End and Rivenhall End
- Access
- Mostly planned estates from the 1960s and 1970s London overspill expansion with driveways and garage courts, newer estates off Maltings Lane, and older terraces with on-street parking around Newland Street and Chipping Hill.
- Council
- Braintree District Council · about 27,389 residents
Nearest tip to Witham
- Site
- Witham Recycling Centre, Perry Road, Freebourne Industrial Park, Witham, CM8 3YZ
- Hours
- 9am to 5pm from 1 March to 15 October, 9am to 4pm from 16 October to the end of February. Closed every Thursday, and on Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New Year's Day.
- Rules
- Every car visit must be booked in advance (Blue Badge holders, pedestrians and cyclists are exempt). Cars only: vans, pick-ups and large trailers are not accepted, and the site does not take DIY waste or rubble. Alternative: Chelmsford Recycling Centre, Drovers Way, CM2 5PH (about 6 miles down the A12) is open every day and takes booked vans, pick-ups and large trailers plus limited household DIY waste.
Skip permits in Witham
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 Witham →
About Witham
Around 27,389 people. Witham comes under Braintree District Council. Garage and loft clear-outs on the 1960s and 1970s estates; DIY and renovation waste that the Perry Road tip will not take; unit and office clearances on the Freebournes and Eastways industrial estates.
Witham at a glance
Homes
Witham has two historic cores: Chipping Hill, the Saxon settlement around St Nicolas' Church, and Newland Street, the high street, which lies in the Witham Town Centre Newland Street conservation area. Around them lie three large council estates built on the west and north sides for London overspill in the late 1960s and 1970s, including Templars off Cressing Road, with a smaller one to the south. Later housing includes the Maltings Lane estate of the early 2000s and Rivenhall Park off Forest Road. Access therefore differs between the older cores and the planned estates.
House clearance in WithamBuilding work
New housing in Witham is concentrated on the edges: Rivenhall Park off Forest Road, with 385 homes complete and a further 230 approved; Lodge Farm, masterplanned for 750 dwellings; New Gimson Place, a 78-home scheme; and Woodend Farm, with about 400 homes planned. The overspill estates are of an age that typically brings refurbishment and extension work. Newland Street lies in a conservation area, where demolition and external changes are more closely controlled, and Chipping Hill is the older of the two historic cores, so skip positions in both need agreeing in advance.
Skip hire in WithamBusinesses
Newland Street is the linear town centre, with two shopping precincts opening off it: the Newlands Shopping Centre of the 1970s to the north and the brick-built Grove Centre of the 1980s to the south. Five supermarkets trade in the town. Industry is grouped on the eastern side near the A12 at Freebournes Industrial Estate, Eastways Industrial Estate and Crittall Road, with Waterside Business Park at Eastways; Freebournes Road connects to Colchester Road for the A12. The centre yields cardboard, food waste and glass, and the industrial estates pallets, packaging, metal and manufacturing waste.
Commercial waste in WithamWhat Braintree 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 item £20.00; 2-3 items £30.00; 4-6 items £55.00; 7-9 items £80.00 (including VAT, from 1 April 2026).
- Leave items
- At the boundary of the property by 7:00am, where household waste is normally presented, easy to access and visible from the road.
- Not taken
- No asbestos, concrete, bricks or rubble, plasterboard, boilers, sheds, greenhouses, pianos, hot tubs, range cookers, garden waste, bagged general refuse or house clearances; some large items count as two.
As published by the council, October 2026. Council page
- Charge
- £55 for the first bin for 2026/27 (1 April 2026 to 31 March 2027); £30 for each additional bin; new or replacement bins £37.25.
- 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 Witham?
Usually the same day for wait and load and clearances. Witham is 25 minutes from our yard in Wickford: book before 11am on a weekday and we aim for the same day, otherwise 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 Witham?
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 Witham?
Witham Recycling Centre, Perry Road, Freebourne Industrial Park, Witham, CM8 3YZ. Every car visit must be booked in advance (Blue Badge holders, pedestrians and cyclists are exempt). Cars only: vans, pick-ups and large trailers are not accepted, and the site does not take DIY waste or rubble.
Which Witham postcodes do you cover?
CM8, and everything around them: Newland Street, Chipping Hill, Freebournes Industrial Estate, Eastways Industrial Estate, Maltings Lane, Templars estate.
Book a collection in Witham
Pick what needs collecting, see the price, choose a day. We confirm by text and take card payment.