Skip advice for residents affected by flooding

If you have home insurance:

Make sure you’ve spoken to your insurers before removing or disposing of anything. Insurance Loss Adjusters may want to visit your home to inspect damage to the structure and items. Always check with your insurer first and they will help you with provision of skips and professional support in cleaning and repairing your property .

If you or your insurer do provide a skip a licence is required whenever a skip is placed on any part of the highway (pavement, verge or the side of the road). Only skip companies registered with Surrey County Council can apply for a licence. Please contact a registered skip company of your choice, who can apply for the necessary licence. You can view a list of registered skip companies on our skip register. Surrey County Council – Registered skip companies (surreycc.gov.uk)

Where practicable, skips should be placed within property boundaries. If you would like to hire a skip to be placed on private land, such as your front garden, no licence is required and you may approach any skip company of your choice.

If you do not have home insurance:

Your Borough Council and Surrey County Council are working together to support the clean-up from the flooding. If you need a skip or bulking items disposed of please contact your Borough Council. Surrey County Council and/or Borough Councils will, on a case by case basis look to provide support for the disposal of waste and may provide skips or other support.

Whether skips have been provided by an insurance company or the Councils, they are for the use of residents whose homes have been flooded to help them with cleaning up the property and they are not for general use. We would ask everyone to be considerate to the needs of those who have been flooded and the need to repair homes.