18 skip hire firms are based within about 15 miles of York. 3 are on the Environment Agency waste carrier register, 10 say they arrange the council permit and 11 offer same- or next-day delivery.
Businesses
Skip sizes, prices and services are as each firm describes them on its own website. Waste carrier status is matched against the Environment Agency register on the date shown; claims marked "stated" have not yet been checked; how we check. Listings last refreshed 30 Sept 2026.
Wetherby Skip Services Ltd provides skip hire of various sizes, wait-and-load services, hazardous waste collection, and roll-on/roll-off compactors from its base in Wetherby. The company offers online booking and states all skips are available at one day's notice.
Mini skips (2-3 yd)
Midi skips (4-5 yd)
Builders skips (6-8 yd)
Maxi skips (10+ yd)
Wait & load
Roll-on roll-off
Works for: Homeowners, Builders & trades, Businesses
Martin's Skips provides skip hire and waste management services across York and surrounding areas, offering skip sizes from 4-yard midi skips to 40-yard roll-on roll-off containers. The company operates its own recycling and waste transfer facility on the outskirts of York, handling domestic and commercial waste.
Midi skips (4-5 yd)
Builders skips (6-8 yd)
Maxi skips (10+ yd)
Roll-on roll-off
Aggregates & muck-away
Works for: Homeowners, Builders & trades, Businesses
Moverley Demolition & Skip Hire Ltd provides skip hire and waste disposal services in the York area, offering midi, maxi and bag skips to domestic, commercial and industrial customers.
Midi skips (4-5 yd)
Maxi skips (10+ yd)
Skip bags
Works for: Homeowners, Builders & trades, Businesses
Same-day delivery · Arranges the council permit · Runs its own lorries
Baldwin York Skip Hire offers skip hire, waste collection, and recycling services across York and the wider UK, operating skips ranging from 2 to 40 cubic yards for both domestic and commercial customers. The company uses its own skips and a network of depots and partners to provide coverage across England, Wales and Northern Ireland.
Mini skips (2-3 yd)
Midi skips (4-5 yd)
Builders skips (6-8 yd)
Maxi skips (10+ yd)
Wait & load
Roll-on roll-off
Rubbish removal
Commercial waste
Works for: Homeowners, Builders & trades, Businesses
Same-day delivery · Arranges the council permit · Runs its own lorries
Boswell's Skip Hire is based in Dunnington, York and offers domestic and commercial skip hire, wait-and-load services, and waste recycling through its own waste transfer station. The business also operates demolition, salvage, and reclamation divisions across the UK.
Mini skips (2-3 yd)
Midi skips (4-5 yd)
Builders skips (6-8 yd)
Maxi skips (10+ yd)
Wait & load
Commercial waste
Works for: Homeowners, Builders & trades, Businesses
From £100 (4 yard) · Same-day delivery · Arranges the council permit · Runs its own lorries
Mick George is a skip hire and waste management company covering the East Midlands and East Anglia, with a yard in York. They supply skips from 2 to 16 yards, roll-on-roll-off containers, wait-and-load, and aggregates delivery, serving domestic, trade and commercial customers.
Mini skips (2-3 yd)
Midi skips (4-5 yd)
Builders skips (6-8 yd)
Maxi skips (10+ yd)
Wait & load
Roll-on roll-off
Rubbish removal
Commercial waste
Aggregates & muck-away
Works for: Homeowners, Builders & trades, Businesses
Arranges the council permit · Runs its own lorries
York Skip Hire provides skip hire services across York and surrounding areas, offering a range of skip sizes from 3-yard mini skips to larger containers.
Mini skips (2-3 yd)
Midi skips (4-5 yd)
Builders skips (6-8 yd)
Maxi skips (10+ yd)
Wait & load
Works for: Homeowners, Builders & trades, Businesses
Same-day delivery · Arranges the council permit · Runs its own lorries
Phillips Waste Management Ltd is a family-run skip hire and waste management company based in Selby, serving Selby, York, Goole, Pocklington, Market Weighton, Howden and surrounding areas. It offers skip hire in sizes from 2 to 40 yards, roll-on/roll-off skips, recycled aggregates, and commercial and construction waste services, operating its own waste transfer station.
Arranges the council permit · Runs its own lorries
Murr Skip Hire, trading as part of Murr Plant & Transport Ltd, provides skip hire in 4, 6 and 8 yard sizes along with aggregates and garden products, serving domestic and commercial customers in Pocklington, York and surrounding areas.
From £120 (4 yard) · Same-day delivery · Arranges the council permit · Runs its own lorries
Circle Skip Hire provides skip hire services in York and surrounding areas including Acomb, Haxby, Fulford, Clifton, Heslington, and Bishopthorpe. The company offers 4, 6, and 8 yard skips for homeowners, landlords, trades, and businesses, with same-day and next-day delivery options.
The company offers grab wagon hire, muck away, tipper hire, aggregate supply, clay extraction, and crushing and screening services for commercial and domestic customers.
Grab hire
Aggregates & muck-away
Works for: Homeowners, Builders & trades, Businesses
Eezy Peezy Grab Hire is a family-run grab hire specialist based in Barlby, Selby, offering removal of spoil, rubble, concrete, brick and green waste using a 6-wheeled grab wagon with a 6-metre crane. The business also supplies aggregates and topsoil and serves homeowners, the construction industry, utilities and local councils across Selby, North Yorkshire and surrounding areas.
Grab hire
Aggregates & muck-away
Rubbish removal
Works for: Homeowners, Builders & trades, Businesses, Councils & public sector
K H Services Grab Hire, established since 2004, provides grab lorry hire for soil, rubble and spoil removal, along with aggregates supply, plant hire and groundworks in Selby and surrounding areas of Yorkshire.
SkipCheck lists 18 skip and grab hire firms serving York and the surrounding area of roughly 15 miles into North and East Yorkshire. Between them they cover mini, midi, builders and maxi skips, with 3 firms also offering grab hire and 5 offering wait-and-load. Eleven firms state they can deliver the same day or next day, and 10 state they arrange road permits on your behalf. Fifteen firms state they run their own lorries; one is a booking agent. Four firms publish a starting price, ranging from £100 to £200.
If a skip is to stand on a public road in York, a permit is required under the Highways Act 1980. City of York Council states that skip hire companies are responsible for obtaining the permit, which costs £76 for up to 14 days, plus £56 extra if less than three working days' notice is given. Skips on the road must be lit at night and coned; they cannot go on a footway or on double yellow lines. No permit is needed for a skip on private land. Householders who pay someone to remove waste have a duty of care to check that firm is permitted to do so: failing to check can result in a fixed penalty of between £150 and £600.
Common questions
Do I need a permit for a skip in York?
If the skip will stand on a public highway, yes. Under section 139 of the Highways Act 1980, permission from the highway authority is required. City of York Council states that the skip hire company is responsible for getting the permit. The fee is £76 for 1 to 14 days, with an extra £56 charge if notice of under three working days is given. No permit is needed if the skip goes on private land.
How do I check a skip hire firm in York is a registered waste carrier?
You can search the Environment Agency's public register of waste carriers, brokers and dealers. A firm that carries other people's waste needs upper-tier registration. Three of the 18 firms listed on SkipCheck for York are on the Environment Agency waste carrier register, as verified on 30 September 2026. Note that from August 2025 the government announced that waste carrier registrations will be replaced by environmental permits or registered exemptions over the following three years.
Hazardous waste such as asbestos cannot go in a standard skip, and equipment containing ozone-depleting substances, including fridges, counts as hazardous and needs separate disposal. Plasterboard and other gypsum waste must not go to landfill mixed with biodegradable waste, and whole or shredded tyres are banned from landfill entirely, so skip firms typically ask that these are kept separate or left out of the skip altogether.
Four of the 18 firms listed for York publish a starting price on their websites. The lowest published starting price is £100 and the highest is £200. These are the figures firms publish and may not reflect the final cost, which can vary depending on skip size, location, hire length and whether a road permit is needed. For a permit on under three working days' notice, City of York Council charges an additional £56.