Croydon CR0 and CR9
Builders, garden, pre-build and void clearance, cleared by grab lorry with the paperwork to match.
Site clearance in Croydon is the removal of builders waste, garden and green waste, and the contents of a plot or property before work starts. Prime Waste Services Ltd clears CR0 and CR9 sites by grab lorry, up to 20 cubic yards and 16 tonnes per 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.
Four jobs get booked under the same name, and they are not the same job. Our site clearance services cover builders clearance, garden and green waste clearance, pre-build clearance and void clearance, and the one you need decides the vehicle, the crew and the amount of hand-sorting before anything is loaded.
Builders clearance is the tail end of a job: rubble, broken slabs, hardcore, offcuts and demolition waste sitting where the last trade left it. Garden and green waste clearance is soil, turf, stumps, hedge cuttings and the old patio underneath. Pre-build clearance strips a plot back so setting out can start, and void clearance empties a property between tenancies or before refurbishment.
Our operating centre is at Pear Tree Farm, Featherbed Lane, CR0 9AA, so a Croydon job is a local run rather than a trip in from outside the borough. Grab lorries carry 20 cubic yards and up to 16 tonnes per job, subject to loading and road restrictions, and the Epsilon crane reaches up to 7.5 metres from the side of the vehicle depending on the vehicle and the site.
David Robins, a customer, said: “Rapid response, great service, fair prices. I would happily recommend Prime Waste Services LTD to friends and family.”
Croydon Council states that the roads covered by red route restrictions in the borough are the A23 and the A232, so stopping, loading and unloading on the A23 Purley Way or across the A232 Croydon Flyover and Duppas Hill Road is restricted. The Borough Transport Strategy describes the A23 as the north-south arterial linking Croydon to central London and the south coast by way of the M25 and Gatwick, and names Fiveways and the Lombard roundabout as pinch points where heavy vehicles serving the Purley Way retail and industrial areas disrupt through traffic. The A232 is the east-west route skirting the southern side of the metropolitan centre and linking the borough with Sutton and Bromley.
Inside the centre, the town centre falls within the Centre Permit Zone, one of the council’s controlled parking zones, so kerbside waiting and loading is permit-controlled rather than first come first served. The strategy also names the Wellesley Road and Station Road junction and the George Street and Park Lane junction as congestion hotspots for larger vehicles, along with the A236 Roman Way junction with Derby Road and the Newgate gyratory where the A222 St James’s Road meets Whitehorse Road. On the A212 Wellesley Road, the council records that about half the vehicles using it are through traffic with a further 3 to 10 per cent circulating.
Here is the point most clearance quotes forget. The Borough Transport Strategy identifies six Network Rail bridge structures in the borough carrying an 18 to 20 tonne weight limit and programmed for strengthening or replacement, including Windmill Bridge at St James and Blackhorse Lane South on the northern approaches to the town centre. A grab lorry loaded to 16 tonnes plus its own unladen weight is not getting under or over those on the direct line, so the route out of a site off Whitehorse Road may be longer than a map suggests. Worth checking before you promise a neighbour the road will be clear by lunchtime.
There is also plenty of work generating clearance in the first place. The Croydon Opportunity Area is identified in the adopted Local Plan as having the greatest potential for change in the borough, with capacity for over 10,650 homes across more than 70 allocated development sites, almost a third of all new homes planned in Croydon. The council’s planning committee has endorsed Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield’s North End Quarter Masterplan Framework covering the Whitgift Centre, the Allders building and the surrounding area, and the Growth Zone allocated 7.2 million pounds of additional investment in 2024/25, including the renewal of Minster Green in the Old Town. Ground conditions across all of it are consistent: chalk underlies Croydon, fractures in it allow groundwater to collect and flow, and that groundwater supplies over 70 per cent of the borough’s drinking water, which is why the Local Plan requires development in Source Protection Zones 1 and 2 to account for possible contamination. On a clearance that means fuel, paint and unidentified drums are a real issue rather than a box-ticking one.
A waste transfer note. It is the record that says what left your site, who took it and where it was going, and under duty of care it is the document that keeps the responsibility for that material from following you afterwards. Ask for it as a matter of course, on a two-load garden strip as much as on a month of builders clearance.
The carrier details should match the vehicle that turns up. Prime Waste Services Ltd holds waste carrier registration CBDU480663 and operator licence OK2066087, with four vehicles authorised at the Croydon operating centre, and trades under company number 14793814. The company has been running since April 2023, is fully insured, and its operatives are CPCS compliant, CSCS registered, qualified and screened.
One thing worth knowing before you plan a self-help clearance: the Factory Lane Reuse and Recycling Centre at CR0 3RL is a household site for Croydon residents. The South London Waste Partnership states that its sites are open only to residents disposing of household waste and that commercial and industrial waste must not be brought to them, and Croydon Council’s site rules state that permits are not issued for vans. Trade material from a build has to travel with a registered carrier.
The four kinds of clearance we are asked for most, and what each one needs settled before booking.
| Type of clearance | What it usually involves | What we need to know first |
|---|---|---|
| Builders clearance | Rubble, hardcore, concrete, broken slabs, demolition waste and offcuts left at the end of a build | Whether the material is already piled or spread, and whether the crane can reach it |
| Garden and green waste clearance | Turf, soil, stumps, hedge and tree cuttings, old paving and the sub-base beneath it | Access to the rear, the height of anything the grab has to reach over, and whether soil and green waste are mixed |
| Pre-build clearance | Stripping a plot back to bare ground before setting out, including sheds, fencing, slabs and vegetation | The programme date the plot has to be clear by, and what is staying in place |
| Void clearance | Emptying a property between tenancies or ahead of refurbishment, including loose contents and fitted items | Whether mattresses, fridges, freezers or paint are present, since those are not taken on a standard booking |
Every clearance leaves with a waste transfer note. Restricted items are arranged separately, not quietly loaded.
Some things cannot be taken on a standard booking, and void clearances are where this bites hardest, because the items left behind in an empty flat are very often the ones on the list. Asbestos, gas bottles, batteries, railway sleepers, mattresses, tyres, fridges, freezers, paint, chemicals and liquids all need to be arranged separately rather than added to the pile.
What we do take is soil, stones, muck, concrete, rubble, hardcore, demolition waste and green waste. If a clearance is going to leave you with an empty plot that then needs filling, the same visit can bring back MOT Type 1, crushed concrete, ballast, sharp sand, building sand, topsoil or shingle.
Walking the site with the crew before the lorry books in is ten minutes well spent. It also gives us a realistic view of how much of the pile has to be picked over by hand, which is usually what decides how long a clearance takes.
Our depot is inside the borough, and most Croydon addresses are roughly eight minutes away from Featherbed Lane by car. A loaded eight-wheeler is slower than a car, so add roughly 15 to 20 per cent to that figure and plan around the traffic rather than the distance.
Same-day collection is often possible but always subject to availability. Quotes are free and priced by project, with no published price list, because a hand-sorted void clearance off a permit-controlled street and an open plot on Purley Way are different pieces of work even at the same tonnage.
There is no published price list, because clearance is priced by project. What moves the figure is the volume, how much of the pile needs hand-sorting, how close the lorry can get, and whether restricted items have to be handled separately. Quotations are free and we would rather look at the site, or at photographs of it, than guess from a description over the phone.
Yes. We work across CR0 and CR9 and the surrounding areas including Broad Green, Waddon, Addiscombe, Selhurst, Thornton Heath and South Croydon. Our operating centre is at Pear Tree Farm, Featherbed Lane, CR0 9AA, so most Croydon jobs are a short run. Tell us the street and the access when you call and we will say what the vehicle can do there.
Often, yes. The crane reaches up to 7.5 metres from the side of the vehicle depending on the vehicle and the site conditions, which means material can be lifted over a fence, a wall or a garage rather than carried through the house. What matters is where the lorry can legally stand, the height of anything in the way and whether there are overhead cables above the lift.
Yes, every load leaves with one. It records what was taken, who took it and where it went, which is what duty of care requires of you as the producer of the waste. Our waste carrier registration is CBDU480663 and the operator licence is OK2066087, with four vehicles authorised at the Croydon operating centre.
No. Factory Lane Reuse and Recycling Centre is a household site for Croydon residents, the South London Waste Partnership states that commercial and industrial waste must not be brought to its sites, and the council does not issue permits for vans. Waste from building work has to leave with a registered carrier and be recorded on a transfer note.
Not on a standard booking. Mattresses, fridges, freezers, tyres, batteries, gas bottles, railway sleepers, paint, chemicals, liquids and asbestos all need a separate arrangement. Tell us what is in the property when you book, ideally with a couple of photographs, and those items can be dealt with properly instead of holding up the rest of the clearance on the day.
Sources and further reading
Call 07778 541120 and we will walk the site, price the clearance and confirm what can leave on the first load.
