Epsom KT17, KT18 and KT19
Loose screened soil delivered across Epsom, with excavated spoil loaded out on the same lorry visit.
Topsoil in Epsom is delivered loose by grab lorry across KT17, KT18 and KT19, placed on site by crane rather than tipped at the kerb. Prime Waste Services Ltd carries 20 cubic yards and up to 16 tonnes per job from its Croydon operating centre, 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 loose load, placed rather than dumped. Prime Waste Services Ltd operates as a grab lorry firm and a topsoil supplier from the same vehicle, so the Epsilon crane sets your screened soil down where the work is and then lifts spoil, turf or rubble back into the body for the return leg. That is one lorry visit covering both directions instead of two.
We run a 20 cubic yard body and take up to 16 tonnes per job, subject to loading and road restrictions. Reach is up to 7.5 metres from the side of the vehicle, depending on the vehicle and site conditions, which on most Epsom plots is the difference between soil landing on the border where it is needed and soil landing on the drive to be barrowed twice.
We price by project after a free quotation, so the useful information at the first call is the postcode, the area and finished depth, and what the frontage looks like. Same-day collection is often possible but always subject to availability.
Almost everything in Epsom funnels onto the A24. It enters from Ewell as Epsom Road and East Street, runs through the middle of the town as the High Street, then leaves southwards as South Street and Dorking Road towards Ashtead and Dorking. The A240 shares its route as the dual-carriageway Ewell Bypass before heading north as Kingston Road through Stoneleigh and Tolworth to the A3, while the A2022 climbs east out of the town centre as Upper High Street, Alexandra Road, College Road and Fir Tree Road, past Epsom Downs towards Nork and Banstead Crossroads.
The employment land tells you where the heavier work is. Longmead and Kiln Lane, between the B284 Hook Road and the A24, cover about 35 hectares in total, roughly 20 hectares 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. Longmead is reached from Longmead Road with Hook Road forming its western boundary, and Kiln Lane is taken directly off the A24 north-east of the centre. The railway between them is the reason no shortcut exists.
The ground varies over a short distance. Epsom and Ewell Borough Council’s 2024 Level 1 Strategic Flood Risk Assessment records the north-western areas as underlain by clay, silt, sand and gravel, chalk geology as pervasive across the south-east, and the superficial geology of a central band including parts of the town centre as Quaternary River Terrace sand and gravel. In practice, spoil dug in the town centre is often granular terrace material, while ground to the south towards Epsom Downs is chalk. Neither is a growing medium, which is why finished levels here are almost always made up with imported soil.
Two more things shape the diary. Larger projects are coming forward under a new Local Plan for 2022 to 2040, and Epsom Hospital on Dorking Road is being retained and modernised under the Epsom and St Helier trust’s programme, with a new Specialist Emergency Care Hospital planned on the Sutton Hospital site and construction able to begin in 2033. Sites near the hospital and the town centre have to work around live access rather than close it.
Because a wasted movement here is rarely a short one. Longmead and Kiln Lane, the town’s main employment area north of the centre, are separated by the railway line and have no direct vehicular connection to each other, so a lorry moving between the two estates has to travel back out to the A24 or Hook Road and round. A second delivery trip for the same job means repeating that loop.
The town centre has its own version of the problem. Public parking is concentrated in barrier-controlled multi-storey and surface car parks run by the borough council, including the Ashley Centre and Hook Road, rather than on the High Street, and the streets around the centre sit inside Residents’ Parking Zones where on-street space needs a council permit. There is nowhere convenient for a lorry to sit and wait, so the visit has to be planned to do everything in one stand.
Market days add a fixed constraint to the calendar. Epsom Market Place holds street markets on Thursdays and Saturdays plus a farmers’ market on the first Sunday of each month, occupying the Market Place at the centre of the High Street on those days. For anything close to the High Street, a Tuesday or a Wednesday is an easier delivery day than a Thursday.
The same word covers three materials that are not interchangeable on site.
| Grade | Processing and testing | Typical use | What to check |
|---|---|---|---|
| Topsoil to BS 3882 | Sampled and laboratory tested against the British Standard for texture, pH, organic matter, nutrients, stone content and contaminants | Specified landscape works, adopted public realm, planting schemes with a written soil specification | That the analysis exists, matches the load and is recent enough for the specifier |
| Screened topsoil | Passed through a mesh so stones, roots and oversized material are removed; the chemistry is untouched | Lawns, borders, raised beds, levelling before turf and general garden landscaping | The screen size, and whether the soil is heavy enough to need improving before planting |
| Subsoil | Excavated from below the topsoil layer, denser, low in organic matter, usually unscreened | Bulk filling, raising and regrading levels beneath a growing layer | That it is not being used as a substitute for topsoil under turf |
Screened describes a process. BS 3882 describes tested parameters. A load can be one without being the other.
Topsoil is the upper layer of the ground, the part carrying the organic matter, nutrients and structure that roots use. It is the only one of the three materials that works as a growing medium without being amended.
Screened topsoil is the same material after it has been passed through a mesh, which removes stones, roots and anything larger than the screen size. Screening is purely mechanical. It gives an even, rakeable product that spreads to a consistent depth, and it says nothing about fertility, pH or how the soil will drain, so two screened loads can behave quite differently.
Subsoil comes from below the topsoil horizon. It is denser, low in organic matter and slower draining, which makes it a sensible bulk fill for building levels up and a poor choice under turf or planting. On a regrade it goes down first and the growing layer goes on top of it.
BS 3882 is the British Standard specification for topsoil. It defines the parameters a soil is assessed against, including texture, pH, organic matter, nutrient levels, stone content and contaminants, and it separates multipurpose topsoil from topsoils specified for a particular purpose. It is a testing framework rather than a brand or a grade of quality on its own.
You need it when a drawing, a landscape specification or a planning condition names it, which is common on adopted public realm, school grounds and larger residential schemes. You rarely need it for a domestic lawn. Where the standard is called up, compliance is demonstrated by laboratory analysis of a sample, so the practical step is to ask for the analysis and the sample date before the load is ordered rather than after it is spread.
Contaminated ground is where this gets serious in Epsom. The borough council’s committee report on the former Gas Holder Station site on East Street, a scheme for 456 homes in buildings of eight to twelve storeys plus an outline replacement Performing Arts Centre, identifies the decommissioned gas works as contaminated land and requires demolition and site-wide remediation before occupation. On sites of that kind the imported growing layer is part of the remediation strategy, not an afterthought.
Our operating centre is Pear Tree Farm, Featherbed Lane, Croydon CR0 9AA, about 7.8 miles from Epsom. A car does it in roughly 24 minutes using the A232 Cheam Road and then the A24. A loaded eight-wheeler adds roughly 15 to 20 per cent to a car journey time, so plan on a little over half an hour and treat the figure as typical rather than guaranteed.
Epsom sits outside Greater London, so neither the ULEZ nor the London-wide Low Emission Zone applies on site. Loads that continue north into London still have to meet the Low Emission Zone standard, which applies 24 hours a day to lorries over 3.5 tonnes. Which route the lorry takes into the town depends on where you are: the A24 for the High Street and East Street, the B284 Hook Road for Longmead, and Kiln Lane directly off the A24 for the Kiln Lane estate.
Soil, stones, muck, concrete, rubble, hardcore, demolition waste and green waste all go on a standard booking. Asbestos, gas bottles, batteries, railway sleepers, mattresses, tyres, fridges, freezers, paint, chemicals and liquids do not, and telling us in advance if any of those are on site saves an aborted visit.
Epsom is more accommodating than most of the towns around it for trade arisings. The 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 does accept chargeable business waste, with vans and trailers admitted under Surrey’s van and trailer rules. Pedestrian access is not permitted at all.
Whichever route the material takes, the duty of care sits with you as the producer as well as with the carrier. Our upper tier waste carrier registration is CBDU480663 and our operator licence OK2066087 authorises four vehicles at the Croydon operating centre. Company number 14793814, trading since April 2023, fully insured, and the operatives are CPCS compliant and CSCS registered.
Same-day collection is often possible but always subject to availability, so ring early rather than assuming. A day or two of notice is more comfortable for anything near the High Street, because market days on Thursdays and Saturdays and the Residents’ Parking Zones around the centre both narrow the options for where a lorry can stand while it works.
In most cases yes. The crane reaches up to 7.5 metres from the side of the vehicle, depending on the vehicle and site conditions, so soil can be lifted over a fence, a hedge or a side return from the road. Send a photograph of the frontage and the obstacles with your enquiry and we will tell you honestly whether the reach works before booking.
Where the specification calls for it and a tested material has been sourced for that order, yes, but say so at quotation stage. BS 3882 compliance is demonstrated by laboratory analysis of a sample rather than by a label, and the analysis has to accompany the material. For a domestic lawn, screened topsoil spread at a consistent depth is normally what the job actually needs.
Not on a standard booking without discussing it first. Materials such as asbestos, chemicals, paint and liquids are excluded outright, and anything from a remediation site needs to be characterised before it moves. The former Gas Holder Station site on East Street is a reminder that contaminated land in Epsom requires a planned approach rather than an ordinary muck away.
That depends on the area and the finished depth, so work out square metres multiplied by depth in metres to get a volume and send it with your postcode. A full body is 20 cubic yards, with a ceiling of 16 tonnes per job subject to loading and road restrictions. Where a job needs more than one load we plan the trips so each visit also removes spoil.
Sources and further reading
Call 07778 541120 with your Epsom postcode, the volume and the access, and we will quote the delivery and the spoil removal together.
