Horley RH6, Gatwick fringe
Wet Weald clay out, sub-base in, on one visit to your RH6 plot.
Grab lorry hire in Horley covers RH6 waste collection and aggregate delivery from our Croydon depot. One grab lorry replaces several small loads, taking 20 cubic yards and up to 16 tonnes per job, with crane reach up to 7.5 metres. Waste carrier registration CBDU480663, operator licence OK2066087.
Send the site postcode, what is on the ground and when you need it moved. We will come back with a written quotation. 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 collection is often possible but always subject to availability.
Two jobs, usually on the same visit. Material comes off the plot into the lorry, and stone goes back on to make the ground workable again. Our grab hire services handle soil, stones, muck, concrete, rubble, hardcore, demolition waste and green waste going out, and MOT Type 1, crushed concrete, ballast, sharp sand, building sand, topsoil and shingle coming in.
The crane does the lifting from the roadside, reaching up to 7.5 metres from the side of the vehicle depending on the vehicle and site conditions. On the newer Horley estates, where frontages are narrow and parking is tight, that reach is often the difference between loading from the kerb and moving everything by barrow to a skip further along the road.
Capacity is 20 cubic yards and up to 16 tonnes per job, subject to loading and road restrictions. Given the distance from our depot, a Horley booking made a day or two ahead is easier to place well; same-day collection is often possible but always subject to availability.
Horley’s town centre is a moving target for the next while. The Delivering Change in Horley Town Centre programme, an approximately three million pound scheme delivered by Surrey County Council and Reigate and Banstead Borough Council, is converting Horley High Street to one-way working for vehicles with a segregated contraflow cycleway. It is being built in eleven phases of between one and thirteen weeks each from early 2026, with works at the Lumley Road, Consort Way East and Albert Road junctions and at the High Street car park entrance, alongside refurbishment of the Station Approach pedestrian subway. Funding comes from council capital, Strategic CIL, 600,000 pounds of developer contributions and government grant. Any RH6 delivery into the centre needs checking against the current phase rather than against last month’s arrangement.
On the strategic network, the A23 Chequers roundabout is described by Surrey County Council as a major strategic part of the highway network with high traffic flows, its four arms being the A23 with Ladbroke Road, Horley Row, the A23 south-western arm and Balcombe Road towards Gatwick and Pound Hill. South of the town the A23 London Road and Airport Way form the signed route from M23 junction 10 to Gatwick’s North Terminal roundabout. M23 junction 9 serves Gatwick and Horley, and closures between junctions 9 and 10 divert traffic via the A2011 Crawley Avenue or the A264 and A22 to M25 junction 6.
The housing growth is the reason so much material moves here. Westvale Park, north-west of the town, is a 1,510-home neighbourhood being built out by a developer consortium with the borough and county councils; more than 1,130 homes had been completed and occupied by May 2022, and Taylor Wimpey started the neighbourhood centre shops and 80 flats in December 2024. The Acres, north-east of Horley, delivered 710 homes between 2010 and 2016. With smaller sites, the town has taken over 2,500 new homes plus the Orchard Drive link road and new link roads to the A217 in 2014 and the A23 in 2021. Land between Horley and Gatwick is allocated as a strategic business park of predominantly offices under policy HOR9 of the Development Management Plan adopted in September 2019.
Underneath it all is the Low Weald. The Surrey Landscape Character Assessment describes this ground as underlain by a mixture of sandstone and clays, siltstone and mudstones, producing heavy, poorly drained soil. Arisings from footings and drainage runs in Horley are typically wet cohesive clay rather than free-draining granular material, which is heavy in the grab, sticks to the bucket and reaches the weight limit sooner than a chalk or sand spoil would. It is also why so many RH6 jobs need stone brought in to make a working surface at the same time as the clay goes out.
Everything listed above, mixed or separated. What cannot go on a standard booking is asbestos, gas bottles, batteries, railway sleepers, mattresses, tyres, fridges, freezers, paint, chemicals and liquids. Tell us before the day, not on it.
The disposal question is the one worth settling first on an RH6 job. Earlswood Community Recycling Centre on Horley Road, Earlswood, Redhill RH1 6PN is the nearest tip, and it requires a permit for any van, pickup or trailer plus proof of Surrey residency. It refuses business waste outright, and the nearest centre taking commercial waste is Leatherhead. Anyone running a Horley job as a trade is therefore looking at a registered carrier from the outset, not as a fallback.
“Rapid response, great service, fair prices. I would happily recommend Prime Waste Services LTD to friends and family.” — David Robins
Around Horley the deciding factor is usually the weight of wet Weald clay and whether a container can stand on a street that is about to be dug up.
| What to weigh up | Grab lorry | Skip hire |
|---|---|---|
| Capacity | 20 cubic yards and up to 16 tonnes per job, subject to loading and road restrictions | One skip volume, and saturated clay hits the weight limit well before the top |
| Loading method | Crane loads from the road, up to 7.5 metres from the side of the vehicle | Barrow and shovel, which is slow and messy in heavy cohesive soil |
| Highway permission | None for the lorry, which does not remain on the road | Council permit normally needed where the skip stands on the public highway |
| Fit with town-centre works | In and out inside a single visit, easier to slot between phased road closures | Needs the same kerb space to stay available for days at a time |
| Best suited to | Clearing a dig in one go, or swapping clay out for MOT Type 1 in | Slow-accumulating mixed waste where a plot has room to spare |
Volumes and weights vary with material and conditions, and we confirm what is achievable when quoting.
About 42 minutes by car from Pear Tree Farm, Featherbed Lane, Croydon CR0 9AA. That is the longest run of our regular Surrey area, and a loaded eight-wheeler adds roughly 15 to 20 per cent on top of a car journey, so an hour is a more realistic planning figure for a return with a full body. Times are typical rather than guaranteed.
Horley is in Surrey outside the Greater London boundary, so the Ultra Low Emission Zone does not reach it. Transport for London states the zone operates only across the London boroughs and the City of London, with the M23 corridor and the M25 outside it. The practical risk on this route is not emissions charging but motorway works: closures of the northbound M23 between junctions 10 and 9 push Gatwick and Horley traffic onto the A2011 Crawley Avenue and A23 London Road, or via the A264 through Copthorne and the A22 at Felbridge to M25 junction 6.
Because the responsibility for waste stays with whoever produced it until a properly entitled carrier takes it on. Prime Waste Services Ltd is registered waste carrier CBDU480663, company number 14793814, trading since April 2023, and holds operator licence OK2066087 with four vehicles authorised at the Croydon operating centre.
Every load leaves with a transfer note. Our operatives are CPCS compliant and CSCS registered, the company is fully insured and the Epsilon cranes are inspected on a regular schedule. On a site inside a live housing development, where the developer’s own compliance team may ask for evidence, having that note in hand is worth more than a cheaper cash collection.
Not usually, but the slot has to match the phase. The High Street is being converted to one-way working with a contraflow cycleway across eleven phases of between one and thirteen weeks from early 2026, with junction works at Lumley Road, Consort Way East and Albert Road and at the High Street car park entrance. Give us the address and we will check the access before booking.
No. Earlswood Community Recycling Centre on Horley Road, Redhill RH1 6PN refuses business waste, and it requires a permit for any van, pickup or trailer along with proof of Surrey residency. The nearest centre that takes commercial waste is Leatherhead. For trade arisings the practical route is a registered carrier with a transfer note for each load.
Heavy wet clay, in most cases. Horley lies in the Low Weald, which the Surrey Landscape Character Assessment describes as underlain by sandstone and clays, siltstone and mudstones producing poorly drained soil. That material is dense and sticky, so a load reaches the 16 tonne limit before the body looks full, and it is worth planning stone deliveries alongside the muck away.
Long enough to load, which is normally tens of minutes rather than hours. The vehicle sets its stabilisers, the crane works from the kerb up to 7.5 metres from the side of the vehicle, and then it leaves. There is no container left behind and no skip permit to arrange, which is helpful on streets affected by the phased town-centre works.
Yes, subject to site rules and access. Horley has taken over 2,500 new homes, including 1,510 at Westvale Park and 710 at The Acres, and plot-level work on developments like these is standard grab lorry territory. Our operatives are CPCS compliant and CSCS registered, which most principal contractors will ask about before allowing a vehicle on.
Sources and further reading
Call 07778 541120 with the RH6 address and we will check the access against the current road phase.
