Epsom KT17, KT18 and KT19
Excavated spoil cleared off your dig and hauled to an authorised disposal site.
Muck away in Epsom is the removal of excavated spoil, soil, clay, chalk, rubble and hardcore, from sites across KT17, KT18 and KT19. Prime Waste Services Ltd loads up to 20 cubic yards and 16 tonnes per job, working as a registered waste carrier, CBDU480663, tipping only at authorised disposal sites.
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.
A dig throws out more material than the hole suggests. Once soil, clay or chalk is broken out it bulks up, and a basement, a pool or a set of extension footings can fill several loads in a morning. Our muck away services exist to keep that material moving off the plot so the machine is never standing idle waiting for somewhere to put the next bucket.
Most jobs run on booked slots rather than a single visit. You tell us the material, the rough volume and where a lorry can stand, and we phase the loads around your excavation programme. The grab lorries load themselves using a regularly inspected Epsilon crane, with a reach of up to 7.5 metres from the side of the vehicle depending on the vehicle and site conditions, so the lorry can often stay on the road while the crane works over a fence or a hoarding line.
Capacity is 20 cubic yards and up to 16 tonnes per job, subject to loading and road restrictions. Weight is usually what limits an Epsom load rather than volume, because wet chalk and saturated clay are far heavier than the same bucketful of dry terrace gravel. Same-day collection is often possible but always subject to availability, so a call the day before a big dig is worth making.
The A24 is the spine of any Epsom job. It comes in from the Ewell Bypass as Epsom Road and East Street, threads the town centre as the High Street, then leaves southwards as South Street and Dorking Road towards Ashtead and Dorking. The A240 Kingston Road runs concurrently with the A24 as the dual-carriageway Ewell Bypass before heading north through Stoneleigh and Tolworth to the A3, and south to the A217 at Burgh Heath. The A2022 leaves the town centre at the High Street junction and climbs east as Upper High Street, Alexandra Road, College Road and Fir Tree Road past Epsom Downs towards Nork and Banstead Crossroads, which is the gradient a loaded lorry feels on a Downs job.
For commercial work, most of the volume sits north of the town centre on the Longmead and Kiln Lane industrial estates, between the B284 Hook Road and the A24. Together they cover about 35 hectares, roughly 20 at Longmead and 15 at Kiln Lane, and hold around 126 companies supporting an estimated 1,941 jobs, about 6.5 per cent of borough employment. The two estates are separated by the railway and have no direct vehicular connection to one another, so a lorry moving between them has to come back out to the A24 or Hook Road. Kiln Lane itself is taken directly off the A24 north-east of the centre. Plan the sequence of loads around that severance and you save a return leg on every visit.
In the town centre, kerb space is the constraint. Epsom and Ewell Borough Council operates Residents’ Parking Zones in streets around the centre, where on-street parking needs a resident or visitor permit, and public parking is concentrated in barrier-controlled multi-storey and surface car parks such as the Ashley Centre and Hook Road rather than on the High Street. Market Place holds street markets on Thursdays and Saturdays and a farmers’ market on the first Sunday of the month, which takes the middle of the High Street out of use on those days. A grab lorry that can work from the nearest legal standing point rather than the plot itself is often the only workable answer.
Ground conditions change what comes out and how many loads it makes. The borough council’s 2024 Level 1 Strategic Flood Risk Assessment records clay, silt, sand and gravel under the north-western areas, chalk pervasive across the south-eastern areas, and Quaternary River Terrace sand and gravel as the superficial geology of a central band including parts of the town centre. In practice a town-centre dig usually yields granular terrace material that loads clean, drains and holds its shape on the body. Go south towards Epsom Downs and you are into chalk, which turns greasy in wet weather, gains weight and needs proper sheeting to keep it off the road. Clay bulks and holds water, so the load count creeps up on exactly the jobs where the programme has least slack.
We remove soil, stones, muck, concrete, rubble, hardcore, demolition waste and green waste. That covers the great majority of what comes out of a domestic basement, a rear extension, a driveway reduce-and-fill or a commercial slab break-out. Mixed loads are normal on a dig, but the more segregated the material is, the more predictable the disposal route.
Some items cannot go on a standard booking at all: asbestos, gas bottles, batteries, railway sleepers, mattresses, tyres, fridges, freezers, paint, chemicals and liquids. If any of those appear in a strip-out, keep them separate and tell us before the lorry arrives rather than after it is loaded.
Suspected contamination is a different question again. Ground with an industrial past, made ground of unknown origin, staining or a hydrocarbon smell needs testing and classification before it is removed, so that the material goes to a site permitted to accept it. Epsom has live examples of this. The borough council’s planning committee report on the former Gas Holder Station site on East Street, a scheme for 456 homes, identifies the decommissioned gas works as contaminated land and requires demolition and site-wide remediation before occupation. Work of that kind produces arisings that have to be characterised, not guessed at.
Both move excavated material off site, but they suit different digs and different plots.
| Consideration | Grab lorry | Tipper |
|---|---|---|
| Loading | Loads itself with the vehicle-mounted Epsilon crane | Loaded by your excavator or loading shovel |
| Vehicle position | Can stay on the road and reach up to 7.5 metres from the side of the vehicle, depending on vehicle and site conditions | Needs to stand where the machine can reach the body, usually on or beside the dig |
| Site plant | None needed at the point of loading | Ties up the machine and the operator while it loads |
| Awkward Epsom access | Suits terraced streets and permit-controlled roads around the town centre where the lorry cannot come onto the plot | Suits open working room such as the Longmead and Kiln Lane estates |
| Wet chalk and clay | Grabbed and sheeted from the kerb, with less tracking of spoil across the footway | Faster on a continuous dig, provided the haul road stays trafficable |
| Best suited to | Phased loads off a constrained plot | A continuous excavation with a machine already working |
Capacity is 20 cubic yards and up to 16 tonnes per job on either arrangement, subject to loading and road restrictions.
Our operating centre is at Pear Tree Farm, Featherbed Lane, Croydon CR0 9AA, roughly 7.8 miles from Epsom town centre. A car covers that in about 24 minutes using the A232 Cheam Road and the A24 Epsom Road. A loaded eight-wheeler is slower, and it is fair to add roughly 15 to 20 per cent to a car journey time, more if the run coincides with the school peak on the A24.
Epsom sits outside Greater London, so it lies outside both the TfL Ultra Low Emission Zone, which operates across all London boroughs and the City of London, and the London-wide Low Emission Zone that applies 24 hours a day to lorries over 3.5 tonnes. That removes a daily charge from the calculation on a Surrey dig, though it makes no difference to weight limits or to where the material may legally be tipped.
Duty of care sits with the producer of the waste as well as the carrier. If spoil leaves your Epsom site and is fly-tipped, the trail leads back to whoever handed it over. Prime Waste Services Ltd is registered as an upper tier waste carrier under CBDU480663 and holds operator licence OK2066087, with four vehicles authorised at the Croydon operating centre.
Every load leaves with a waste transfer note describing the material and recording where it went, which is the paperwork a principal contractor or a building control officer will ask to see. Loads go to authorised disposal and transfer sites. Operatives are CPCS compliant, CSCS registered, qualified, screened and fully insured, and the company has traded under company number 14793814 since April 2023.
It is worth knowing what the local household route can and cannot do. Epsom Community Recycling Centre on Blenheim Road, KT19 9DL, run by SUEZ Surrey for Surrey County Council, has a separate Blenheim Road entrance for commercial customers and accepts chargeable business waste under Surrey’s van and trailer rules, with no pedestrian access. That is a useful facility for offcuts and a van load. It is not a route for the arisings of a full excavation, which is where a booked grab or tipper earns its place.
Work it out from the dug volume, then allow for bulking, because material takes up more space loose than it did in the ground. Weight decides the rest. Wet chalk from the Downs side of Epsom and saturated clay are much heavier per cubic metre than dry terrace gravel from the town centre, and each job is capped at 16 tonnes. Send us the dig dimensions and the material and we will quote the phasing.
Not on a standard booking, and not without testing. Suspected contaminated ground has to be tested and classified first so the material can be sent to a site permitted to receive it. This applies to former industrial land, made ground of unknown origin and any spoil that is stained or smells of hydrocarbons. Epsom’s former Gas Holder Station site on East Street is a good example, where the council’s officer report requires site-wide remediation.
Possibly, depending on the street. Epsom and Ewell Borough Council operates Residents’ Parking Zones around the town centre where on-street parking requires a permit, so standing a lorry or siting plant there may need a permit or a bay suspension arranged with the council. Away from those zones, on industrial estate roads such as Longmead Road or Kiln Lane, loading is normally straightforward with a banksman.
Muck away is the bulk removal of excavated spoil as it comes out of the ground, run as a sequence of loads timed around the dig. Skip hire gives you a static container that fills at whatever pace the job sets, then has to be exchanged. On a live excavation, spoil arrives faster than a skip cycle can clear it, which is why a grab or tipper suits a dig better.
Yes. Both estates are within our normal working area, reached from the B284 Hook Road and the A24 respectively. The one thing to build into your programme is that the two estates have no direct vehicular connection because the railway separates them, so a lorry serving units on both has to travel back out to the A24 or Hook Road between them.
Same-day collection is often possible but always subject to availability, and it depends on where the vehicles already are on the day. Epsom is a short run from the Croydon operating centre at around 7.8 miles, which helps. For a phased dig, booking slots in advance is more reliable than calling on the morning, especially if the excavator is on hire and standing time matters.
Sources and further reading
Call 07778 541120 with the material, the volume and the access, and we will quote the loads and the phasing.
