City of London · EC1 · Green waste removal
Same-week slots · Fully insured · Local Clerkenwell fitters · Fixed written pricesWe provide green waste removal in Clerkenwell EC1 for houses and flats around The Charterhouse and Exmouth Market. From £55, quoted in writing before the visit, with two crew and a Luton on most garden clearances; three crew and a tipper where the load is mainly soil, turf or rubble and weight rather than volume decides the run Units are built in the room they live in, then wall-anchored where they need it.
Overview
This page prices green waste removal for Clerkenwell EC1 specifically: Georgian and early Victorian stock, 36% privately rented and 5,170 households in total. Work starts at £55, fixed in writing, with parking and City of London Corporation permit rules costed before an insured fitter travels.
How it works
Step 1
Roughly how many cubic yards, whether it is soft green waste or heavy soil and turf, and whether there is rear access or everything has to go through the house.
Step 2
Green waste is priced by volume and soil or rubble by weight, so the quote separates the two rather than guessing at one blended rate.
Step 3
Branches and hedge cuttings cut down to fit the van; loose material bagged so nothing spills through a hallway or side return on the way out.
Step 4
Green waste, soil and any rubble kept apart in the van, because the green waste site and the inert tip are two different gate fees.
Step 5
Weighed in at a licensed green waste or inert site and the transfer note emailed the same day.
Why choose us
Registered waste carrier working to duty-of-care rules for green and inert waste. Soft green waste is taken to a composting or green waste treatment site, soil and turf to inert recycling, and any invasive plant material identified on site is routed to a licensed consignment facility rather than mixed with standard garden waste.
Two crew and a Luton on most garden clearances; three crew and a tipper where the load is mainly soil, turf or rubble and weight rather than volume decides the run. Narrow one-way streets, seven-day controlled bays and warehouse lofts up several flights of stairs.
Same-week across every borough, with weekend availability through spring and summer when demand for a one-off garden clearance is highest. Farringdon (Elizabeth line, Circle, Thameslink) is the nearest station, so a EC1 visit rarely needs a whole morning set aside.
We expect precast concrete panels and dense blockwork; locally that also means often with surface conduit, measured on the walk in from Farringdon (Elizabeth line, Circle, Thameslink) rather than assumed from a map in EC1, and we carry the anchors, through-fixings and long bits that match. The mistake we spend most time undoing here is drilling blind into a panel with reinforcement or a buried cable behind it, as the Clerkenwell stock goes, where 25% owner-occupation means the same home is booked again rather than a new tenant each year.
Fixed prices
| Job | From | Typical time | What sets the price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Grass cuttings and light green waste, per cubic yard | £55 | By volume | Light and bulky rather than heavy, so it is priced on the space it takes in the van, not its weight. |
| Hedge cuttings and branches, per cubic yard | £65 | By volume | Woody material needs to be cut down to fit before loading, which adds labour over a straight bag-and-carry. |
| Quarter-load mixed garden waste | £120 | 45–60 min | A typical small London garden clearance, priced on volume plus the green waste site's gate fee. |
| Half-load garden waste | £210 | 1–2 hrs | Covers a full rear garden clear where there is no side access and everything has to come out through the house. |
| Full Luton load of garden waste | £360 | 2–3 hrs | Full van, two crew and the site fee, typical after years of growth are tackled in one visit rather than several bin cycles. |
| Soil, turf and rubble, per cubic yard | £85 | By volume | These are weighed rather than measured by volume — a yard of wet turf or soil can weigh several times the same yard of hedge cuttings. |
Grass cuttings and light green waste, per cubic yard
£55 · By volume
Light and bulky rather than heavy, so it is priced on the space it takes in the van, not its weight.
Hedge cuttings and branches, per cubic yard
£65 · By volume
Woody material needs to be cut down to fit before loading, which adds labour over a straight bag-and-carry.
Quarter-load mixed garden waste
£120 · 45–60 min
A typical small London garden clearance, priced on volume plus the green waste site's gate fee.
Half-load garden waste
£210 · 1–2 hrs
Covers a full rear garden clear where there is no side access and everything has to come out through the house.
Full Luton load of garden waste
£360 · 2–3 hrs
Full van, two crew and the site fee, typical after years of growth are tackled in one visit rather than several bin cycles.
Soil, turf and rubble, per cubic yard
£85 · By volume
These are weighed rather than measured by volume — a yard of wet turf or soil can weigh several times the same yard of hedge cuttings.
Domestic prices are the total you pay; landlord, agent and landscaper invoices are plus VAT at 20%. Cutting material down to load size, carrying through the house where there is no rear access and the green waste site fee are included. Where a bay suspension, permit, ULEZ or the Congestion Charge applies it is itemised in the written quote.
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Coverage
Also in this area
Single items, part-loads, garden waste and office strip-outs across the borough.
Mixed household and bulky waste taken by the load with a transfer note the same day.
Sofas, wardrobes, tables and old white goods collected per item, dismantling included.
Overgrown beds, hedges and years of accumulated green waste cleared and taken away.
Natural stone patios and timber or composite decking cleaned at the right pressure for each.
Sheds, bases and outdoor storage built square, levelled and weather-fixed.
Working in Clerkenwell
5,170 households sit inside the EC1 neighbourhood covering Clerkenwell. The build is Georgian and early Victorian, the tenure profile renter-heavy, and 94% of those homes are flats.
With 36% private renting against 25% owner-occupied, most EC1 bookings land on a move-in day rather than a weekend.
Expect precast concrete panels and dense blockwork; locally that also means often with surface conduit, measured on the walk in from Farringdon (Elizabeth line, Circle, Thameslink) rather than assumed from a map behind the plaster in EC1. That is why fixings are picked in the room rather than off a van shelf, and why drilling blind into a panel with reinforcement or a buried cable behind it, as the Clerkenwell stock goes, where 25% owner-occupation means the same home is booked again rather than a new tenant each year is the fault we are called back to undo.
Design studios, Italian delis and Georgian squares on the City's north-west edge. That character decides the practical detail of green waste removal here far more than the borough boundary does. Clerkenwell sits inside the Congestion Charge zone as well as ULEZ, so both are itemised on the quote rather than absorbed into an hourly rate.
Getting to the door matters as much as the job: narrow one-way streets, seven-day controlled bays and warehouse lofts up several flights of stairs. Farringdon (Elizabeth line, Circle, Thameslink) is the nearest station, and two crew and a Luton on most garden clearances; three crew and a tipper where the load is mainly soil, turf or rubble and weight rather than volume decides the run.
Area at a glance
Who lives in Clerkenwell and what they live in decides how green waste removal is quoted and how long a visit takes. These are the published Census 2021 figures for the Clerkenwell neighbourhood itself — not City of London-wide averages, and not estimates.
11,313
Residents
Clerkenwell neighbourhood, Census 2021
5,170
Households
Median age 31.3
Flats vs houses
Residents by sex
Single-person households
40.8%
Privately rented
35.9%
Source: ONS Census 2021 via Nomis (TS008, TS041, TS007A, TS044, TS054, TS003), MSOA geography. Figures cover the ONS neighbourhood Clerkenwell (E02000575) — the published geography that covers Clerkenwell, not the whole borough. Neighbourhood names: House of Commons Library MSOA Names (OGL). Coordinates for the EC1 district: 51.5230, -0.1037 — Outward postcode centroid, postcodes.io (Ordnance Survey Open Data).
Grass cuttings and light green waste, per cubic yard starts at £55 in Clerkenwell on City of London bookings, with 39% social-rented stock nearby — and 25% owner-occupation locally, and every job is quoted as a fixed written price before a fitter is booked. Volume for soft green waste, weight for soil and rubble, and access in Clerkenwell. A rear garden with no side return means every barrow load comes out through the house on this side of City of London, with this being a short walk from Farringdon (Elizabeth line, Circle, Thameslink) — and 5,170 households on this patch, which is the single biggest driver of price in inner London terraces.
Yes — IKEA, Argos, Wayfair, Made and independent brands are all built to the manufacturer's instructions around Farringdon (Elizabeth line, Circle, Thameslink), with this being City of London Corporation territory. We are independent of every retailer; the names simply describe what we assemble in Clerkenwell most weeks on EC1 jobs, with 94% of homes here being flats.
5–2 hours. Sliding-door and corner wardrobes take two to four times as long because the tracks have to be dead level in Clerkenwell, with City of London parking rules in play.
That is exactly why we build in the room it will live in across EC1. With 94% of Clerkenwell homes being flats, narrow hallways and tight turns are the norm around Farringdon (Elizabeth line, Circle, Thameslink), with this being City of London Corporation territory — and 36% of EC1 homes being privately rented, so anything that will not pass a doorway once assembled is built where it stands.
Narrow one-way streets, seven-day controlled bays and warehouse lofts up several flights of stairs in Clerkenwell. Where a permit or a suspended bay is needed in City of London Corporation it is itemised on the quote before the visit, never added afterwards on this side of City of London — and 39% social-rented stock nearby, with 94% of homes here being flats.
Registered waste carrier working to duty-of-care rules for green and inert waste around Farringdon (Elizabeth line, Circle, Thameslink). Soft green waste is taken to a composting or green waste treatment site, soil and turf to inert recycling on EC1 jobs — and 36% of EC1 homes being privately rented, with The Charterhouse and Exmouth Market a few streets away, and any invasive plant material identified on site is routed to a licensed consignment facility rather than mixed with standard garden waste. That paperwork is what most City of London letting agents and managing agents ask for before work starts in a leasehold flat on this side of City of London, with a median age of 31 in this neighbourhood.
Japanese knotweed and other invasive plant material, which needs a licensed consignment route rather than standard green waste disposal; Tree felling and stump grinding above hedge height in this 94% flats neighbourhood, which needs a qualified arborist rather than a clearance crew; Chemical-treated timber, decking oil tins and weedkiller containers, which are hazardous waste and need a specialist carrier; Pond water, fish and livestock waste — and 36% of EC1 homes being privately rented, with 94% of homes here being flats, which fall outside standard green waste licensing. Anything outside that scope is quoted separately so the Clerkenwell EC1 price you agree is the price you pay on City of London bookings, with this being City of London Corporation territory.
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Two ways to go: price it yourself on the quote page, or pick a slot on the live booking calendar. Clerkenwell EC1 jobs are confirmed in writing before anyone travels, and the same crew covers the rest of city of london.
No deposit is taken until the price and slot are confirmed in writing.
