Full Site Clearances & Bulk Waste Removal

What a full site clearance covers

We plan and manage the complete clearance of industrial and commercial premises, from a single unit strip-out to a phased multi-building decommissioning. That includes the bulk waste, the redundant plant and fittings, the hazardous streams hiding among them, and the segregation work that decides how much the whole job costs.

The commercial point of a managed clearance is recovery. Mixed waste sent to landfill as one skip is the most expensive way to dispose of anything; the same material segregated into metals, timber, plastics, WEEE and residual waste usually costs a fraction as much, and some of it has a positive value.

Who it is for

Landlords and managing agents preparing a unit for reletting or for sale. Businesses relocating or consolidating sites. Insolvency practitioners and receivers who need a site cleared and evidenced to a deadline. Manufacturers taking a line out of service.

How a clearance runs

We survey the site and produce a written proposal: what is there, how it will be segregated, what is going where, what the recovery routes are worth, and what the residual cost will be. Where a deadline is fixed — a lease end, a completion date — the plan is built backwards from it.

Hazardous material is identified and dealt with first, because it is the part that stops a job if it is found halfway through. Everything else is segregated on site as it is removed, so the recovery rates are earned rather than hoped for. We appoint the licensed contractors, sequence the collections, and keep the site workable throughout where it is still in use.

Compliance and documentation

Every load leaves under the correct transfer or consignment note, moved by a registered carrier to a permitted or exempt facility. You receive the full pack at the end: the notes, the carrier registrations, the destination permits, weighbridge tickets, and a recovery and disposal summary showing what proportion of the site was recycled rather than landfilled.

That summary matters beyond compliance. If your organisation reports on waste diverted from landfill, a clearance is one of the largest single figures you will report in a year, and it needs to be evidenced.

What is usually found halfway through

Almost every clearance turns up something that was not on the original list. Asbestos-containing materials in a plant room. A partly buried tank under a hardstanding. Drums of an unlabelled liquid behind a stack of pallets. Fluorescent tubes, fire extinguishers, gas cylinders and old IT equipment, each of which has its own disposal route and none of which can go in a general skip.

The survey is written to find as much of that as possible before a price is given, because a discovery halfway through a clearance is what turns a fixed cost into an open one. Where something genuinely could not have been foreseen, we price it separately and tell you before it is moved rather than adding it to an invoice afterwards.

Working around an occupied site

Many clearances happen in buildings that are still in use, or on sites where another trade is working alongside. We sequence the work around your operation, agree access, storage and welfare arrangements in advance, and keep the routes your people use clear. Where a lease end or a completion date is fixed, the plan is built backwards from it and reviewed weekly against that date rather than against the volume of waste removed.