Poole's Old Town is a warren of narrow, cobbled lanes behind the Quay where there's rarely anywhere legal to leave a skip for a week. Quick Skips runs a grab lorry down the A349 from our depot near Wimborne, so building work, shopfits and clearances around Poole get loaded and gone in a single visit, no permit to arrange and no lorry left blocking a lane for days at a time.
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Booking a grab lorry into Poole isn't quite the same as booking one anywhere else: the Old Town's lanes are tight and cobbled, with little room to leave a skip without blocking the way. It's an area we cover regularly, not an occasional trip out.
Many of the properties around the Quay and the High Street sit directly on the pavement with no space to leave a skip without blocking the road for a week, so a grab lorry is usually the more practical option from the start. It pulls up, the arm reaches over a wall or through a gateway, and the load is gone in the same visit, whether that's a renovation behind the Quay, a flat conversion off the High Street, or a shopfit in the redeveloped Kingland Crescent.
That same no-permit advantage carries across the rest of Poole too, from flats and terraces around Longfleet and Parkstone to commercial units near the town centre. A grab lorry doesn't need council paperwork or a stretch of pavement reserved for a week, so it fits jobs a skip would struggle with, whatever the property type.
Quick Skips has been clearing waste across Dorset since 1993, and our depot on the Ferndown Industrial Estate sits around eight miles out along the A31 and A349, close enough to offer same-day slots into Poole more often than a firm working from further out.
Poole's Old Town sits inside a conservation area of narrow, cobbled streets, most with no room to leave a skip without blocking the lane for days at a time.
A grab lorry doesn't need to be left anywhere: it pulls up, the arm loads directly from behind a hoarding or over a garden wall, and it's gone in the same visit, which matters on the Old Town's tighter lanes where a skip lorry would struggle to find anywhere legal to sit.
What we collect in Poole
Spoil from a basement dig, courtyard job or landscaping work behind the Quay pulled straight off site instead of piled on a cobbled lane.
Material from refurbishments to the Old Town's older buildings loaded and gone in one trip, without narrowing a conservation area street.
Fit-out waste from units around the redeveloped Kingland Crescent and the High Street, loaded and gone in one visit.
Jobs across the water in Hamworthy, or along the harbourside, collected and cleared in the same single visit as anywhere else in Poole.
Usually not. The grab loads and drives off in the same visit, so unlike a skip left on the street for a week, there's nothing sitting there requiring a permit. If access on a narrow conservation area lane needs some planning, tell us when you book and we'll work around it.
Our depot sits on the Ferndown Industrial Estate, around eight miles out along the A31 and A349, so it's a straightforward run into town rather than a long cross-county trip. We can often get a lorry in same-day depending on the schedule.
A skip sits on site until it's full, then gets collected on a separate trip. A grab lorry turns up, its arm loads the waste directly from where it's piled, and it drives off the same day. On the Old Town's cobbled lanes, where there's rarely room to leave a skip, that usually works out simpler.
In most cases, yes. The hydraulic arm has a long reach and can lift from behind site hoardings or over garden walls and railings, so material doesn't need to be carried out to the street first.
Both. If your job needs fresh sub-base, topsoil or hardcore brought in as well as spoil taken out, we can arrange delivery alongside the grab collection.
Soil, clay, subsoil, hardcore, brick and concrete rubble, general refurbishment waste and green waste from garden or grounds clearances. If you're not sure whether something's suitable, give us a call and describe it and we'll confirm.
Both. Alongside the Old Town and Quay, we regularly work out to Hamworthy, Parkstone, Longfleet and Fleetsbridge, and can usually reach further across Poole on request.
Where it can be, yes. We sort what we collect wherever possible and can talk you through disposal routes if it matters for a project's sign-off, including work on a listed building in the Old Town.
A single visit typically clears the equivalent of several standard skips, though the exact volume depends on how dense the material is, soil and rubble fill a lorry faster by weight than the same volume of stripped-out fixtures or green waste.
Same-day is often possible depending on the day's schedule, and we'll usually have a slot free the next working day otherwise. Call the office or send us a WhatsApp message for the fastest answer.
Tell us what needs shifting and we'll give you a straight answer on timing and cost.
Call the office, email us, or send a WhatsApp message, whichever suits you best. We'll talk through access if an Old Town lane needs planning, confirm availability, and get a lorry booked in, often the same day.