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Skip hire in Walpole Highway

First published 25 October 2026. Last checked 25 October 2026.

Walpole Highway is in the Norfolk County Council highway area. A skip on the public road, pavement or verge needs the council's skip licence, and a new application is needed every time a skip is placed. A skip wholly on a private drive you control does not. This page is placement and waste rules, not a list of firms.

About Walpole Highway

Walpole Highway is a village and civil parish in the borough of King's Lynn and West Norfolk, lying south of the A47 between Peterborough and King's Lynn. The parish covers 10.48 km² and had 701 residents at the 2011 census.

A village school was built in 1879, and St Edmund's, built in the 1840s as a chapel of ease to the large mother church at Walpole St Peter, has since been sold and turned into a private home.

Skip Clerk does not invent provider rankings, phone numbers or "top skips in Walpole Highway". Check the carrier's CBDU number, then ask who will apply for the road licence.

Open-top skip with a traffic cone beside it
Photo: Haberdoedas II via Unsplash (Unsplash)

Which authority

Norfolk County Council is the highway authority for every Norfolk district (Breckland, Broadland, Great Yarmouth, King's Lynn and West Norfolk, North Norfolk, Norwich, South Norfolk). Full permit detail: Skip permit: Norfolk County Council. On the council's highways fees page (checked 25 October 2026; fees from 1 April 2026): £55.94 for the first 28 days and £55.94 for each further 28 days. The skip licence page asks for £5m public liability insurance, the waste carrier's certificate and a drawing of the skip position, so in practice the skip company applies. Trunk roads are National Highways, not the county. County map: Skip hire in Norfolk.

Private drive vs road

Local notes

Walpole Highway is in the borough of King's Lynn and West Norfolk, but Norfolk County Council, not the borough council, licences skips on the road. The council does not print a notice period on its skip licence page, so ask the firm how much notice it needs, and expect a new application each time a skip is placed. The A47 to the north of the village is a trunk road run by National Highways, not the county, so do not plan on a skip on it; if your home is near it, keep the skip on your drive and agree with the firm where the lorry will stop. Walpole St Peter is a separate parish under the same county licence, so give the firm your full postcode.

Nearby on Skip Clerk: Walpole St Peter and Walpole St Andrew, Tilney St Lawrence, Marshland St James, West Walton.

Norfolk's recycling centres need a booked slot (free, up to one week ahead). DIY waste from work you did yourself on your own home is free up to two 50-litre sacks or one item per visit, with no more than four such visits in any four weeks; above that you pay as you throw (rubble, soil and stones £4.50, plasterboard £14 per 100 litres). Plasterboard is taken only at Caister, Dereham, Hempton, King's Lynn, Norwich North, Norwich South and Thetford, and no site takes asbestos. Waste from work you paid a trader for gets no free allowance. Source: Norfolk County Council: DIY waste and Norfolk Recycling Centre bookings.

How to hire without a fake directory

  1. Decide the size from the job – What size skip do I need?.
  2. If it has to sit on the road, tell the firm you are in the Norfolk County Council area and ask how much notice it needs for the licence. Recheck the council pages on the day you book.
  3. Ask for the waste-carrier number and check it – how to check a waste carrier licence.
  4. Keep plasterboard, electricals and sofas out of a mixed skip unless the operator says otherwise – what you cannot put in a skip.

Skip Clerk has no hire partners yet and no prices for skip hire on this page. The £55.94 figure is Norfolk County Council's published licence fee, not a hire quote. When we add a booking link it will be marked as an affiliate link.

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