Reigate RH2 and the Downs
Excavated spoil loaded and hauled from RH2 sites to an authorised disposal point.
Muck away in Reigate means clearing excavated spoil off a dig in RH2 and hauling it to an authorised disposal site. Prime Waste Services Ltd loads soil, sand, clay, chalk, rubble and hardcore by grab or tipper, up to 20 cubic yards and 16 tonnes a job, under waste carrier registration CBDU480663.
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 booking covers the loading, the haulage and the legal disposal of what comes out of your hole, phased across as many visits as the dig needs. Our muck away services are quoted per project after a free assessment, and pricing is project-based rather than taken from a list, because a basement in a walled town-centre garden and a reduce-and-fill on the Woodhatch side are not the same job.
Grab lorries load themselves. The Epsilon crane is regularly inspected and reaches up to 7.5 metres from the side of the vehicle, depending on the vehicle and site conditions, so a lorry parked at the kerb can usually clear a spoil heap without setting a wheel on the plot. That matters in Reigate, where most work sits on small town-centre plots rather than open ground.
The ceiling is 20 cubic yards and up to 16 tonnes per job, subject to loading and road restrictions. Weight, not volume, tends to decide how many loads a Reigate dig makes, because the local subsoils vary so much in how much water they hold.
Reigate stands on the Wealden greensand ridge below the North Downs escarpment, and the ground reflects that. The borough council’s Strategic Flood Risk Assessment records the central band around Reigate, Redhill and Merstham as underlain by a variety of subsoils including Upper Greensand, Gault, Folkestone Beds, Sandgate Beds, Hythe Beds and Atherfield Clay, with permeability varying considerably and springs breaking out where permeable layers overlie less permeable ones. Excavated material here can run from clean sand to sticky Gault clay inside a single plot, which is why a load count based on volume alone tends to be wrong.
The practical consequence is about weight and about traffic. Sand spoil is light and forgiving. Clay from a spring line is saturated, heavy and slow to load, and it carries onto the carriageway on tyres unless the exit is kept clean. On a sloping site below the escarpment, that same wet clay is what makes the haul route greasy, so a stone run at the gate earns its keep for the whole job.
In the town centre the road network is the constraint. The A25 runs east to west as Church Street, High Street and West Street, and the A217 forms the north-south spine as Bell Street and Bancroft Road before climbing the escarpment as Reigate Hill past Gatton Bottom and Wray Lane to M25 junction 8. The 1823 road tunnel on Tunnel Road, listed Grade II in January 1989, has carried no vehicles since it was closed to southbound traffic in 1954 and fully pedestrianised in April 1970, so every through movement between the High Street and London Road uses the A217. Surrey County Council has also proposed dropping five town-centre sections from 30mph to 20mph, covering Church Street from number 46 to Bell Street, the High Street from Bell Street to just west of Park Lane, all of Bancroft Road, Bell Street from Church Street to 109B, and the 60 metre access to Morrisons off Bell Street. Bell Street already carries the town centre’s worst collision record, with 11 collisions recorded over three years.
The wider A25 matters too. The Road Safety Foundation identified the Dorking to Reigate stretch as one of the country’s worst A-road routes for fatal and serious injuries per vehicle kilometre, and Surrey County Council’s Safe System scheme has installed average speed cameras, high containment kerbs at the Reigate bends and near the River Mole bridge, and central hatching to deter overtaking. As for commercial ground, Albert Road North Estate is the only industrial estate the council lists in Reigate itself, a compact site close to the town centre with access to the M25, so most heavier work in the town is small-scale and town-centre based. That, more than anything, is why grab loading suits Reigate.
We take soil, stones, muck, concrete, rubble, hardcore, demolition waste and green waste. That covers topsoil strip, subsoil and rock from footings and basements, broken slab and brick from anything demolished, and cleared vegetation ahead of a build.
Standard bookings exclude asbestos, gas bottles, batteries, railway sleepers, mattresses, tyres, fridges, freezers, paint, chemicals and liquids. If any turn up in a strip-out, keep them out of the spoil heap and tell us before the lorry arrives.
Suspected contamination changes the process. Material that may be contaminated has to be tested and classified before removal so it can be directed to a site permitted to accept it, and that includes made ground of uncertain origin as well as anything visibly or obviously affected. Plan the sampling early, because the results govern where the loads can go and therefore what they cost.
The decision usually turns on access and on whether your machine can afford to stop digging.
| Point of difference | Grab lorry | Tipper |
|---|---|---|
| Who loads it | The lorry, using its own crane | Your excavator or loading shovel |
| Access needed | A legal standing point within about 7.5 metres of the spoil, depending on vehicle and site conditions | Room for the vehicle to stand where the machine can reach it |
| Town-centre plots off Bell Street or the High Street | Usually the only workable option | Rarely practical on a narrow frontage |
| Machine time | Excavator carries on working | Excavator stops to load each vehicle |
| Wet Gault clay | Grabbed and sheeted, less carried onto the carriageway | Fast to fill, but needs the body tipped clean |
| Best suited to | Constrained RH2 plots and phased loads | Open sites with a continuous excavation running |
Capacity is 20 cubic yards and up to 16 tonnes per job either way, subject to loading and road restrictions.
From Pear Tree Farm, Featherbed Lane, Croydon CR0 9AA it is about 10.7 miles to Reigate, roughly 34 minutes for a car using the A23, the A25 Reigate Road and M25 junction 8. A loaded eight-wheeler is slower than a car, and roughly 15 to 20 per cent on top is a sensible allowance. These are typical times, not promises.
Two things on that route are worth knowing. M25 junction 8 at Reigate Hill is a congestion hotspot where National Highways has been adding a lane to the southbound A217 and realigning the carriageway at Gatton Bottom. And the A25 approach from Dorking carries average speed cameras as part of a road safety scheme, so a driver keeping to the limit is not being slow.
Reigate is outside Greater London, so the ULEZ and the London-wide LEZ do not apply on site. Both operate across all London boroughs and the City of London, and the LEZ covers lorries, vans and specialist heavy vehicles over 3.5 tonnes, so material run north into London still has to meet those standards. Same-day collection is often possible but always subject to availability.
Because duty of care does not transfer with the spoil. As the producer you remain answerable for where your material ended up, which is why the carrier’s registration is worth checking before the first load rather than after a problem. Prime Waste Services Ltd is registered as an upper tier waste carrier, CBDU480663, and holds operator licence OK2066087 with four vehicles authorised at the Croydon operating centre.
Each load leaves with a waste transfer note describing the material and recording its destination, and each load goes to an authorised disposal or transfer site. The company has traded under number 14793814 since April 2023, operatives are CPCS compliant, CSCS registered, qualified and screened, and the business is fully insured.
For anything beyond a van load, the household network is not open to you in any case. The nearest Surrey community recycling centre to Reigate is Earlswood on Horley Road, RH1 6PN, a household site that does not accept business waste, with Surrey County Council directing businesses to a waste transfer station and requiring a permit for vans, pickups and trailers that is valid at only nine county sites.
It depends on the dug volume and far more on what the ground is made of. Reigate subsoils range from Folkestone and Hythe Beds sand to Gault and Atherfield Clay, and wet clay weighs much more per cubic metre than dry sand, so the 16 tonne per job limit is reached sooner. Give us the excavation dimensions and depth and we will set out the phasing in the quotation.
Usually yes, with a banksman and a sensible time of day. The crane reaches up to 7.5 metres from the side of the vehicle, depending on the vehicle and site conditions, so the lorry can work from the kerb. Bear in mind that the A25 High Street and the A217 Bell Street carry the town’s through traffic, and Surrey County Council has proposed 20mph limits across five town-centre sections.
Yes. We take soil, stones, muck, concrete, rubble, hardcore, demolition waste and green waste, so a mixed load off a strip-out and dig is normal. What cannot go on a standard booking is asbestos, gas bottles, batteries, railway sleepers, mattresses, tyres, fridges, freezers, paint, chemicals and liquids. Keeping clean arisings separate from mixed demolition helps, because the two do not always take the same disposal route.
It has to be tested and classified before it leaves site, so the material goes to a facility permitted to receive it. That applies to made ground of unknown origin as well as to spoil that is stained or smells of hydrocarbons. Once the classification is known we quote those loads separately. Clean arisings from the rest of the dig can keep leaving in the meantime, under the usual transfer notes.
No. Reigate lies outside Greater London, and Transport for London states that both schemes operate across all London boroughs and the City of London. The LEZ applies to lorries, vans and specialist heavy vehicles over 3.5 tonnes, so it is only relevant if material from your Reigate site is being run north into London, in which case the vehicle still has to meet the standard.
Sources and further reading
Call 07778 541120 with the dig size, the ground conditions and the access, and we will quote the loads.
