Morden and SM4
Twenty cubic yards a load, lifted from the kerb and gone before the gyratory backs up.
Grab lorry hire in Morden is a crane-loaded collection service for SM4 sites, taking soil, rubble, concrete and green waste. The lorry loads from up to 7.5 metres away, carries 20 cubic yards and up to 16 tonnes per job, and operates under waste carrier registration CBDU480663 and 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.
One vehicle, one visit, and the disposal at the end of it. Our grab hire services send an eight-wheeler with an Epsilon crane from Pear Tree Farm on Featherbed Lane in Croydon, and the crane reaches up to 7.5 metres from the side of the vehicle depending on the vehicle and site conditions, so the lorry does not have to come onto your ground.
The load is 20 cubic yards and up to 16 tonnes per job, subject to loading and road restrictions. In Morden that limit is normally reached by weight rather than volume, because the borough sits on clay and terrace gravel rather than anything light.
Pricing is project based with a free quotation, so the number comes from what is on the ground and where the lorry can stand, not from a rate card. Same-day collection is often possible but always subject to availability.
Merton’s own planning brief describes Morden as sitting at the confluence of two strategic roads, the A24 and the A297. The A24 runs through as London Road, where the council monitors air quality at the kerbside at 31 London Road, SM4 5DN. The A297 is classed as a London Distributor, and Sutton’s air quality reporting describes it at the Rose Hill roundabout, just south of Morden, as highly congested. Around them run Morden Road, Morden Hall Road, Martin Way, where there is another kerbside monitoring point at SM4 4AR, and Garth Road, which serves Amenity Way and the borough’s main waste complex.
Enforcement here is largely automatic, and it catches drivers who are guessing. Camera-enforced yellow box junctions operate 24 hours a day at Morden Road and Milner Road, and at Tudor Drive in Lower Morden at its junction with Lynmouth Avenue. A 24-hour no-U-turn restriction applies on Morden Road opposite The Path, and there is a no-right-turn from Kingston Road into Morden Road between 7am and 10am and between 4pm and 7pm, Monday to Friday. Add the town centre gyratory one-way system, and the approach to a site has to be worked out rather than improvised. On top of that, the London Lorry Control Scheme requires vehicles over 18 tonnes to hold permission on restricted roads from 9pm to 7am Monday to Friday and from 1pm Saturday until 7am Monday, with a 550 pound operator penalty and a 130 pound driver penalty.
Garth Road is the other thing that makes Morden different. Amenity Way holds a cluster of waste sites safeguarded in the adopted South London Waste Plan 2022-2037: the Garth Road civic amenity site, the Garth Road transfer station and the Morden transfer station. Having that infrastructure on the doorstep does not make disposal easy for a builder, because the civic amenity site takes no commercial waste and caps household rubble and soil at six 80-litre bags per vehicle every six months, with van and trailer users limited to 250kg over six months and 12 visits a year. Plan the disposal route before the digger arrives, not after the spoil heap has taken over the drive.
Underneath all this, Merton’s Level 1 Strategic Flood Risk Assessment records solid geology of primarily Lambeth Group and London Clay, with drift deposits dominated by River Terrace Deposits and alluvium along the Wandle Valley. Excavation in Morden therefore tends to produce stiff clay or granular terrace gravel, with softer alluvium close to the River Wandle where it runs through Morden Hall Park on Morden Hall Road, SM4 5JD. There is going to be more of it: the Merton Local Plan adopted on 20 November 2024 allocates Site Mo1, the Morden Regeneration Zone, expected to deliver circa 2,000 new homes, identifies the town centre as an Opportunity Area, and sits alongside the council’s Remaking Morden programme with its Healthy Streets vision and new public spaces.
Garth Road Household Reuse and Recycling Centre sits at 63-69 Amenity Way, off Garth Road, SM4 4AX, close enough to most Morden sites to be tempting. It is a household site and commercial waste is not accepted at all.
Even for residents the limits are tight. Vans, trailers and large vehicles must book, are admitted only Monday to Friday between 8.30am and 1.30pm and on Saturday from 9am to noon, and residents using them are capped at 250kg over six months and 12 visits a year. Hardcore, rubble and soil are accepted only in small quantities, up to six 80-litre bags per vehicle every six months.
Six bags will not clear a patio, let alone a footing. That single rule is the reason most Morden groundworks and garden projects need a carrier rather than a car boot, and it is worth checking before anyone hires a van for the weekend. Grab lorry hire in Morden exists to close that gap in one visit rather than a fortnight of small trips.
Local disposal limits and camera enforcement do more to decide this in SM4 than container size does.
| What to weigh up | Grab lorry | Skip hire |
|---|---|---|
| Getting rid of rubble and soil locally | Taken away by a registered carrier with a transfer note | Still needs a licensed disposal route; the Garth Road site accepts no commercial waste |
| Capacity in one movement | 20 cubic yards and up to 16 tonnes, subject to loading and road restrictions | One container, then a wait for the swap |
| Standing on the street | Loading only, then the vehicle clears the kerb | Container stays put, normally under a council permit |
| Camera-enforced junctions | Driver picks a standing point clear of the yellow boxes and turn bans | Delivery and exchange lorries face the same restrictions twice over |
| Best suited to | Digs, breakouts and clearances producing weight in one go | Light mixed waste accumulating slowly on a long job |
Vehicles over 18 tonnes need London Lorry Control Scheme permission overnight and at weekends, with penalties of 550 pounds for the operator and 130 pounds for the driver.
We remove soil, stones, muck, concrete, rubble, hardcore, demolition waste and green waste, which covers the usual SM4 mix of extension spoil, broken slab and cleared vegetation.
We deliver MOT Type 1, crushed concrete, ballast, sharp sand, building sand, topsoil and shingle. Pairing a delivery with a collection keeps the vehicle movements down, which is worth doing on a street inside the borough’s air quality management area.
Certain items cannot go on a standard booking and need arranging separately.
Around 13 minutes by car from the depot, which puts Morden among the closest areas we serve and makes a return visit for a second load realistic within the same day.
A loaded eight-wheeler is slower: add roughly 15 to 20 per cent to a car time, then allow for the town centre itself. Merton’s planning brief for Morden station describes an existing gyratory one-way system where eight of the twelve bus routes serving Morden terminate and nine bus stops adjoin the station site, so the final few hundred metres are rarely the quick part. Times we give are typical rather than guaranteed.
It means the person who created the waste stays responsible for where it ends up. Handing rubble to whoever knocks on the door is how a Morden homeowner ends up answering for a fly-tip in the Wandle valley.
Prime Waste Services Ltd is a registered waste carrier under CBDU480663 and holds operator licence OK2066087, with four vehicles authorised at the Croydon operating centre. Company number 14793814, trading since April 2023, fully insured, with CPCS compliant and CSCS registered operatives who are qualified and screened. Loads leave with a transfer note, and the cranes are inspected regularly.
“Rapid response, great service, fair prices. I would happily recommend Prime Waste Services LTD to friends and family.” David Robins
Only in very small quantities, and only as a resident. The Garth Road site accepts no commercial waste, and hardcore, rubble and soil are limited to six 80-litre bags per vehicle every six months. Vans, trailers and large vehicles must book, are admitted Monday to Friday 8.30am to 1.30pm and Saturday 9am to noon, and are capped at 250kg over six months.
Wherever it can stand legally within about 7.5 metres of the material, which is often further from the site than people expect. The crane does the reaching, so a lorry on the road can clear a rear garden or a driveway. We check the approach in advance because of the camera-enforced yellow boxes and the turn restrictions around Morden Road and Kingston Road.
Yes. We deliver MOT Type 1, crushed concrete, ballast, sharp sand, building sand, topsoil and shingle, and can pair a delivery with a collection on the same visit. That suits a driveway or patio rebuild, where the sub-base arrives as the old surface leaves, and it halves the number of lorry movements on the street.
Mostly stiff clay or terrace gravel. Merton’s Strategic Flood Risk Assessment records Lambeth Group and London Clay as the solid geology, with River Terrace Deposits and alluvium along the Wandle Valley, so ground close to the river through Morden Hall Park is softer and wetter. Clay loads heavy, so weight rather than volume usually sets the number of loads.
As little as the same day where a slot is free, though that is always subject to availability. Booking a day ahead gives more choice of time, which matters because vehicles over 18 tonnes need London Lorry Control Scheme permission from 9pm to 7am on weekdays and from 1pm Saturday to 7am Monday. Daytime weekday slots are the simplest to arrange.
Sources and further reading
Call 07778 541120 with the SM4 postcode and what needs moving, and we will confirm the load count and a realistic slot.
