Croydon to RH1
Half an hour south down the A23, over the Surrey boundary and out of the London lorry schemes.
Yes, we provide grab hire in Redhill. Redhill is about 9.9 miles from our Croydon depot, a typical drive of 31 minutes on the A23 Brighton Road, or the M23 to junction 7 and the A25. We run 20 cubic yard grab lorries into RH1 for muck away, site clearance, waste removal and aggregate delivery, under waste carrier registration CBDU480663. Each load carries up to 20 cubic yards, approximately 16 tonnes, and the Epsilon crane reaches up to 7.5m depending on vehicle and site conditions, so waste can be lifted over walls, fences and parked cars from the road. Because the lorry loads and leaves, no skip permit is needed, and every load is documented with a waste transfer note. For a free quote call 07778 541120 or 020 7167 8474, or email info@primewasteservicesltd.com and see our page on grab lorry hire in Redhill.
Send the site postcode, what is on the ground, the access details and when you need it moved. We will come back with a written quotation, the right vehicle and a collection slot, subject to availability. On the day the driver positions the lorry on the road or hardstanding, the crane loads the waste without the lorry entering the site, and a waste transfer note is issued for the load. There is no charge for a quote and no obligation to book.
Lines are answered by the people who run the lorries, not a call centre. Same-day and next-day collections are often possible but always subject to availability.
Redhill is the point where the journey stops being a London journey. It is about 9.9 miles from our Croydon depot, roughly 31 minutes in a car, and there are two sensible ways to do it: straight down the A23 Brighton Road, or out to the M23 and in at junction 7 onto the A25. The motorway option keeps a loaded lorry at a steadier speed when the A23 is queueing, so the choice is usually made on the morning rather than in advance.
Half an hour each way is the number that shapes the day. A round trip plus loading takes most of a morning, so two loads is a comfortable day’s work into RH1 and three is a push. Add roughly 15 to 20 per cent to the car time for a loaded eight-wheeler, and treat all of these as typical times rather than guarantees. Surrey County Council describes the A23 Three Arch Road junction with Maple Road as suffering major congestion and severe queues, and as the main approach to East Surrey Hospital, so an afternoon slot can lose more time there than on the whole run down from Croydon.
The constraint most likely to catch out a delivery in Redhill is an experimental weight restriction rather than a camera. Pendleton Road and 18 connected residential roads, including King’s Avenue, Fairlawn Drive, Cotland Acres, Sandpit Road and Church Road, are covered by a 7.5 tonne environmental weight restriction made by Surrey County Council on 27 January 2023, with access permitted only for vehicles serving property inside the zone. If your site is in that zone, a grab lorry can still come to you, because it is serving a property there, but the route in has to be worked out in advance and the surrounding roads cannot be used as a through route.
The other Redhill-specific point is what comes out of the hole. Redhill sits on the central Wealden greensand belt between the North Downs chalk and the Weald Clay, and the borough council’s Strategic Flood Risk Assessment records a variety of subsoils around Reigate, Redhill and Merstham including Upper Greensand, Gault, Folkestone Beds, Sandgate Beds, Hythe Beds and Atherfield Clay, with permeability varying considerably and springs where permeable layers sit over less permeable ones. A single plot can give free-draining sand at one end and heavy clay at the other. Telling us which you expect, or that you expect both, changes how we plan the loads.
RH1
RH1 gives us a mix of domestic muck away and commercial work off the industrial side of town, where Holmethorpe Industrial Estate is the largest estate in the borough with 110,581 square metres of floorspace across 164 units. Loads out are usually soil, stones, rubble and hardcore; loads in are MOT Type 1, crushed concrete, ballast and topsoil. Our Redhill service pages explain how each of those is handled and what we cannot take.
Grab hire in Redhill from our Croydon depot covers:
Our customers in and around Redhill are builders, groundworkers and small to medium contractors who need spoil gone so work can continue, landscapers and garden designers, developers and refurbishment contractors, facilities and estate managers clearing yards, and homeowners on large renovations where there is no space or permit for a skip on the road. We do not hire out skips: a grab lorry is our alternative to skip hire.
Not accepted: asbestos, gas bottles, batteries, railway sleepers, mattresses, tyres, fridges, freezers, paint, chemicals and liquids. Tell us at quote stage if any of these are on site.
Prime Waste Services LTD (company number 14793814, incorporated April 2023) holds waste carrier registration CBDU480663 (upper tier, carrier and dealer) and Goods Vehicle Operator Licence OK2066087 with four vehicles authorised at our Croydon operating centre. Our drivers are CPCS compliant, CSCS registered and DBS checked, and we are fully insured. We are rated 5.0 out of 5 by reviewers; Barry Turner wrote: “Very efficient, and customer service was second to none, would definitely use this company again in the future.”
Working nearby as well? See grab lorry hire in Reigate, Merstham and Horley, or our main grab hire services page.
About 31 minutes for a car over roughly 9.9 miles from Croydon, either on the A23 Brighton Road or via the M23 to junction 7 and the A25. A loaded eight-wheeler adds roughly 15 to 20 per cent. These are typical times, not guarantees, and the Three Arch Road junction is the usual delay.
No. Redhill lies outside Greater London, and Transport for London states that both schemes operate across the London boroughs and the City of London. That said, the Low Emission Zone applies to lorries over 3.5 tonnes, so any load run north from Redhill into London still has to meet LEZ standards, which is why our vehicles are kept compliant regardless of the job.
Yes, where we are serving a property inside the zone, which is what the restriction permits. The experimental restriction made on 27 January 2023 covers Pendleton Road and 18 connected residential roads, and blocks through traffic rather than access. We plan the approach in advance so the vehicle enters and leaves without using the zone as a shortcut.
No. Earlswood Community Recycling Centre does not accept business waste, and Surrey County Council directs businesses to a waste transfer station instead. Vans, pickups and trailers also need a CRC permit that is valid at only nine Surrey sites. Construction arisings need a registered carrier and a transfer note, which is what we provide under registration CBDU480663.
Sources and further reading
Call 07778 541120 or 020 7167 8474 with the RH1 postcode, the material and the access, or email info@primewasteservicesltd.com with the same details, and we will confirm a slot and a free quotation for your grab hire in Redhill.
