Rubbish clearance & skip hire in Dagenham
Dagenham is dominated by the Becontree estate, built by the London County Council in the 1920s and 1930s as short terraces of cottage-style houses on narrow roads. Barking and Dagenham Council issues skip permits only to contractors registered with it, never to residents, and has controlled parking zones in several parts of the borough.
Every service in Dagenham
Each one has its own Dagenham page with prices and local detail.
Rubbish Clearance in Dagenham
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 Dagenham
2 to 16-yard skips delivered across Essex. Domestic driveways, building sites and commercial yards.
Prices & bookingMan & Van in Dagenham
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 Dagenham
Full or part house clearances handled with care: probate, end of tenancy, downsizing. Priced from your photos.
Get a free estimateWait & Load in Dagenham
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 Dagenham
8-wheel grab lorry for soil, hardcore and mixed loads. 16 tonnes a load, lifted over the wall in minutes.
Prices & bookingGarden Clearance in Dagenham
Green waste, soil, turf, branches, sheds and fencing cleared and recycled. Priced from your photos.
Get a free estimateBuilders Waste in Dagenham
Rubble, plasterboard, timber, packaging and strip-out waste taken from site by the truck load, same or next day.
Prices & bookingSite Clearance in Dagenham
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 Dagenham
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: Dagenham
Collections across Dagenham
- Postcodes
- RM8, RM9, RM10
- From our yard
- Dagenham is about 40 minutes from our Wickford yard via the A132 and A127 to Gallows Corner, A12 to Whalebone Lane (A1112), then south to Dagenham Heathway. 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
- Becontree Estate, Dagenham Heathway, Dagenham Dock, Becontree Heath, Valence House, Parsloes Park, Merrielands Retail Park and Dagenham East
- Access
- Short terraces of 1920s and 1930s cottage-style houses on the Becontree estate, many with front gardens converted to parking, on narrow roads with heavy on-street parking and controlled parking zones in several areas.
- Council
- Barking and Dagenham Council · about 118,347 residents
Nearest tip to Dagenham
- Site
- Frizlands Lane Reuse and Recycling Centre, Rainham Road North, Dagenham, RM10 7HX
- Hours
- Monday to Friday 7.30am to 4.30pm, Saturday 7.30am to 4pm, Sunday and bank holidays 8am to 4pm (last entry 15 minutes before closing)
- Rules
- Free for residents of Barking and Dagenham, Havering, Newham and Redbridge who show a current council tax bill or driving licence. Cars with ordinary household waste need no booking, but vans, trailers and any DIY or renovation waste must be booked in advance, and Luton vans, tippers, flatbeds and tail-lift vans are refused. Alternative: Gerpins Lane, Upminster RM14 2XR and Jenkins Lane, Barking IG11 0AD are also open to Barking and Dagenham residents for household waste, both daily from 7.30am to 5.45pm.
Skip permits in Dagenham
Barking and Dagenham Council issues skip permits in Dagenham, and only to skip contractors registered with it. A skip on your drive needs nothing; on the road it needs a licence, and we apply for you. Allow at least a week. Size limit on the road: skip must not exceed 5 metres long by 2 metres wide unless specifically authorised; 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 Dagenham →
About Dagenham
Around 118,347 people. Dagenham comes under Barking and Dagenham Council. House clearances and end-of-tenancy clear-outs on the Becontree terraces; wait-and-load or man-and-van collections on narrow roads with no room for a skip; commercial and trade waste from the industrial estates around Dagenham Dock.
Dagenham at a glance
Homes
Much of Dagenham is the Becontree Estate, built by the London County Council between 1921 and 1935 on cottage estate principles, with terraced houses and front gardens. A mid-terrace house has no side access, so garden waste and bulky items come through the house. The council treats the estate as a heritage asset and adopted a Becontree design code in June 2026. Beyond it are Dagenham Village around the parish church, Becontree Heath and part of Rush Green, and the new neighbourhoods of Beam Park and Dagenham Green near the Thames.
House clearance in DagenhamBuilding work
Domestic building work is concentrated on Becontree houses: rear extensions, loft conversions and porches. From November 2026, Article 4 Directions mean porches across the estate, and side or roof alterations on corner blocks, will need planning permission. Dagenham Village and the Chadwell Heath anti-aircraft gun site are conservation areas. Larger construction is under way at Beam Park and Dagenham Green, and Dagenham Heathway has a planning document adopted in June 2026. A parking bay must be suspended by the council before a skip occupies it, and stopping is prohibited on the A13 red route.
Skip hire in DagenhamBusinesses
Dagenham Heathway is one of the borough's key centres, with shops, a multi-storey car park and a regeneration framework adopted in 2026. Industry is concentrated at Dagenham Dock on the Thames, at the Dagenham engine plant, and on the Chadwell Heath Industrial Estate, which the council has identified as a transformation area. Eastbrook Studios, a film and television production centre, occupies a former pharmaceutical site at Dagenham East. Businesses here generate packaging, pallets, metal and production waste as well as shop and food waste. The A13 links the southern industrial areas.
Commercial waste in DagenhamWhat Barking and Dagenham 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
- Currently free under a pilot scheme: a standard collection of up to 4 items (the usual £35 fee has been removed for the trial).
- Leave items
- Within the front boundary of the property, where the usual weekly waste is put, before 6am on collection day; items cannot be removed from back gardens or service alleys.
- Wait
- Up to 4 weeks for available booking slots.
- Not taken
- No tyres, gas bottles, chemicals, asbestos, paint, oils, car parts, fluorescent tubes, storage heaters, rubble or soil, sheds or pallets; no more than four items per collection; domestic properties only.
As published by the council, October 2026. Council page
- Charge
- £50 per year for each green bin (2026 service, fortnightly collections from March to December; up to three bins).
- 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 Dagenham?
We cover Dagenham from Wickford, about 40 minutes away via the A132 and A127 to Gallows Corner, A12 to Whalebone Lane (A1112), then south to Dagenham Heathway, so it's booked rather than same-day: usually the next working day, with a two-hour arrival window sent 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 Dagenham?
Only on the public road. Barking and Dagenham Council issues skip permits in Dagenham, and only to skip contractors registered with it, 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 Dagenham?
Frizlands Lane Reuse and Recycling Centre, Rainham Road North, Dagenham, RM10 7HX. Free for residents of Barking and Dagenham, Havering, Newham and Redbridge who show a current council tax bill or driving licence. Cars with ordinary household waste need no booking, but vans, trailers and any DIY or renovation waste must be booked in advance, and Luton vans, tippers, flatbeds and tail-lift vans are refused.
Which Dagenham postcodes do you cover?
RM8, RM9, RM10, and everything around them: Becontree Estate, Dagenham Heathway, Dagenham Dock, Becontree Heath, Valence House, Parsloes Park.
Book a collection in Dagenham
Pick what needs collecting, see the price, choose a day. We confirm by text and take card payment.