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Welwyn Garden City Skip Hire | Welwyn Garden City Waste Recycling | Welwyn Garden City Licensed Waste Carriers

Stevenage Skip Hire have been taking good care of our customers for many years now. Whatever your waste requirements may be, Stevenage Skip Hire have the perfect size skip to match the job in hand. Don't forget, we supply skips for commercial or domestic clients, recycle waste, sort out the skip permits and are Environment Agency approved. Stevenage Skip Hire operate a same day skip drop off and collection service throughout Welwyn Garden City. Our skip hire prices are very competitive, so call us today!

Skip hire in Welwyn Garden City and recycle with ease

Recycling is a major concern for the environmentally aware these days, and simply throwing away waste materials is simply not an option for many. However, there is a fine line between only throwing away genuine rubbish and becoming a bit of a hoarder. Skip hire in Welwyn Garden City is the sensible solution, as our skip hire company will do the recycling for you.

We are committed to disposing of all your waste in an environmentally-friendly way. At least 95% of waste is recycled. At our recycling centre in Stevenage, we segregate all waste before processing it.

Therefore, soft and hard plastics, paper, cardboard and UPVC are bailed for recycling. Garden hardcore is crushed, ready for reuse in landscaping and building projects. Wood and green waste are chipped, making it easier to decompose and create quality compost much quicker.

Therefore, we take all the guilt that you may feel when disposing of your waste products away.

A little about Welwyn Garden City

Welwyn Garden City was founded by Sir Ebenezer Howard in 1920 following his previous experiment in Letchworth Garden City, which is a few miles to the north of Welwyn Garden City. Howard had called for the creation of planned towns that were to combine the benefits of the city and the countryside and to avoid the disadvantages of both. It was designed to be 'The Perfect Town'. The Garden Cities and Town Planning Association had defined a garden city as a town designed for healthy living and industry of a size that makes possible a full measure of social life but not larger, surrounded by a rural belt; the whole of the land being in public ownership, or held in trust for the community.

In 1919, Howard arranged for the purchase of land in Hertfordshire that had already been identified as a suitable site. A company called Second Garden City Limited was formed in October 1919 to start buying the land and developing the town. On 4 February 1920, the company's board decided to call the new garden city Digswell, taking the name of the existing small village which would be surrounded by the development. Six days later they changed their minds, deciding instead to call it Welwyn Garden City, reflecting that the project was already being discussed generally as the new garden city near the nearby village of Welwyn. On 29 April 1920, the company changed its name to become Welwyn Garden City Limited. Sir Theodore Chambers chaired the company, whilst Louis de Soissons was appointed as architect and town planner, Charles Purdom as finance director and Frederic Osborn as secretary. The first house was occupied just before Christmas 1920.

Today, there is a De Soissons Close, and the Ridgeway Academy used to be called Frederic Osborn School.

Welwyn Garden City is laid out along tree-lined boulevards with a neo-Georgian town centre. It has its own environmental protection legislation, the Scheme of Management for Welwyn Garden City. Every road has a wide grass verge. The centre of the town is Parkway, a central mall or scenic parkway, almost a mile long. The view along Parkway to the south was once described as one of the world's finest urban vistas, and is instantly recognisable by many people around the globe who have lived in, or visited Welwyn Garden City. Older and more expensive houses in Welwyn Garden City are on the west side of Parkway and newer houses on the east side. Although there are some lovely properties on the east side of Welwyn Garden City, there remains a definite divide between the seemingly affluent west side and the more 'working class' east side of the town.

The original planners intended that all the residents of the garden city would shop in one shop and created the Welwyn Stores, a monopoly which caused some considerable local resentment. Commercial pressures have since ensured much more competition and variety, and the Welwyn Stores were in 1984 taken over by the John Lewis Partnership, who also converted the old Cherry Tree Public House into a Waitrose supermarket.

In 1948, Welwyn Garden City was designated a new town under the New Towns Act 1946 and the Welwyn Garden City Company handed its assets to the Welwyn Garden City Development Corporation. Louis de Soissons remained as its planning consultant. That year The Times compared Welwyn Garden City with Hatfield. It described Welwyn Garden City as a world-famous modern new town developed as an experiment in community planning and Hatfield as an unplanned settlement created by sporadic building in the open country. Welwyn, though considered far from perfect, made the New Towns Act possible, just as Hatfield, by its imperfection, made it necessary. In 1966, the Development Corporation was wound up and handed over to the Commission for New Towns. The housing stock, neighbourhood shopping and green spaces were passed to Welwyn Hatfield District Council between 1978 and 1983.

A smaller NHS hospital for Welwyn Garden City

The New QEII Hospital, completed in June 2015, offers outpatient, diagnostic and ante and postnatal services. The smaller QEII replaced the much larger hospital that stood on the site before. The main NHS service is now concentrated at the Lister Hospital about twelve miles north in Stevenage. This has caused a great deal of concern for residents of Welwyn Garden City, who feel that a town of this size should have retained a proper, fully equipped hospital.

A shopping mall, the Howard Centre, was built in the 1980s, incorporating a replacement for the original "temporary" railway station.

There is a resurgence of interest in the ethos of the garden city and the type of neighbourhood and community advocated by Howard, prompted by the problems of metropolitan and regional development and the importance of sustainability in government policy.

The local civic society, which aims to preserve and conserve the garden city ethos, is the Welwyn Garden City Society.

The international ecumenical Focolare movement has its British headquarters at Welwyn Garden City.

In 2008, during construction of a site for HSBC, sixty unsecured argonite fire suppressant cylinders discharged, killing one person, injuring six others and causing substantial damage. Three firms were later convicted of health and safety offences.

2020 saw the 100th anniversary for Welwyn Garden City with a series of celebrations planned. Sadly, they could not all go ahead amidst the Corona virus pandemic.

Recycle in Welwyn Garden City with our skip hire service

Recycling has never been so easy with our skip hire service. You can rest assured that everything you put into a skip hired from us will be scrutinized and whenever possible, recycled responsibly. Remember that ninety five percent of all waste materials that come to us will be recycled.

So, after all your hard work clearing out your garage or shed, you can sit back, relax and smile, as your waste will be recycled by us to help future generations enjoy a cleaner, greener world.

Some of the services Stevenage Skip Hire provide in, and around, Welwyn Garden City:

Skip Hire
Waste Recycling
Waste Management
Envirowaste Recycling Centre
Waste Disposal
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If you would like to know more or are interested in a quote we would be happy to help. Phone us on 0203 780 2277, email us at info@stevenageskiphire.co.uk or fill in our contact form and we will be in touch as soon as possible.

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