About Henry Woods
Four decades on the same Mill Lane yard.
Henry Woods Waste Management is a family-run skip hire business operating from Croydon for over 40 years. Same yard, same number and, most weeks, the same drivers.
The story
One second-hand lorry. Four decades. Same site.
Henry Woods opened the yard at Mill Lane Trading Estate more than 40 years ago with one second-hand lorry and a phone line. Four decades on, we’re still on the same site, still run by the family, and now serving every postcode from Croydon out to Wimbledon and Sutton.
The business has grown: we now run five lorries, deliver 70+ skips a week, keep 100+ skips out with customers at any one time, and recycle 95% of what comes back. But the operation has stayed deliberately small. We know our drivers, we know our regular customers, and we still answer the yard phone in person.
What we do
Skip hire is the whole business.
We deliver 4, 6, 8 and 12 yard skips across south London for domestic and trade customers, handle the council permit if the skip’s going on the road, and take the waste back to the Mill Lane yard for hand-sorting and recycling.
We don’t subcontract. The lorry that turns up is one of our five. The driver is one of our drivers. The skip on your drive is one we maintain, paint and brand ourselves.
Recycling commitment
Less than 5% ends up in landfill.
We operate to Environment Agency licence CBDU130828. Every load returns to the Mill Lane yard, gets hand-sorted, and is rerouted to the right recycling stream.
- Wood: chipped and reused for biomass and panel manufacturing
- Metals: separated, baled and sent to UK foundries
- Aggregates & rubble: crushed and reused as construction sub-base
- Cardboard & paper: baled and sold into the paper recycling chain
The yard
Just off the A23 in central Croydon.
Mill Lane Trading Estate sits in central Croydon, CR0 4AA. It’s where the lorries are loaded each morning, where the waste comes back for sorting, and where the team have a brew at 7am before the first deliveries go out.
Visitors are welcome to drop in, but please phone first so we know to expect you.
Accreditations
Licensed, registered, accredited.
- Environment Agency: Licensed waste carrier CBDU130828
- SafeContractor: Accredited contractor for trade and commercial work
Contact
Speak to the yard direct.
Phone the yard: 0203 369 9540 (Mon–Fri 06:30–17:30, Sat 07:30–12:00)
Email: info@henrywoods.co.uk
WhatsApp: 07766 191 470. Send a photo of your access if you’re not sure what’ll fit