Hove Tip Shuts at 1.30pm at Weekends; Wilson Avenue Stays Open to 5pm

Hove tip on Modbury Way is open 8am to 4.30pm Monday to Friday, 8.30am to 1.30pm on Saturday and 10.30am to 1.30pm on Sunday, and closed on bank holidays; the Brighton tip off Wilson Avenue in Whitehawk opens 8am to 4.30pm on weekdays and 9am to 5pm at weekends and on bank holidays. Neither needs a booking, but staff can ask for photo ID and a proof of address at the gate.

Last checked 11 November 2026, against Brighton & Hove City Council’s tip, access and accepted-items pages.

Overview

• Hove (Modbury Way, off Old Shoreham Road, BN3 7AE): 8am to 4.30pm Monday to Friday, 8.30am to 1.30pm Saturday, 10.30am to 1.30pm Sunday, closed bank holidays.
• Brighton (off Wilson Avenue, Whitehawk, BN2 5PA): 8am to 4.30pm Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm Saturday, Sunday and bank holidays.
• No booking. Bring a photo driving licence showing your Brighton & Hove address and a proof of address dated within three months. Trailers up to 1.2m at Hove only; asbestos at Hove only.
• Official page: Brighton & Hove household waste recycling sites.

Opening hours

Two warnings from the council’s recycling sites page are worth knowing before you set off. Staff “may close the main gates up to 45 minutes before the published closing time, to clear vehicles already queuing on site”, so a 4.30pm close can mean a 3.45pm gate. And you are asked to “only queue on the smaller access roads leading to the tips, not the major approach roads”, so at Hove that means Modbury Way rather than the Old Shoreham Road; the entrance is between Aldrington Avenue and Leighton Road. Expect short waits at Hove while containers are emptied during opening hours.

Christmas and New Year hours

The council set these hours for both sites over Christmas 2025, in its festive collections release: Christmas Eve 8am to 1pm; Christmas Day and Boxing Day closed; New Year’s Eve 8am to 1pm; New Year’s Day closed. Note that the Brighton site, which normally opens on bank holidays, closed on all three of those days. The council had not published its 2026 hours when we checked on 11 November; last year’s release named the tip hours alongside the bin changes, and we will add this year’s when it does. Last year the council also ran real Christmas tree drop-off points across the city from 29 December to 6 February, covered on our Christmas bin collections page.

What to bring: the ID rule

There is no booking system and no permit scheme for cars, but there is an identity check. The council’s access page says staff “may ask to see your photo ID driving licence that shows your Brighton & Hove address plus a matching proof of residency that must be dated within the last three months”. A bank statement, council tax bill, tenancy or mortgage agreement or a utility bill all count as the second document.

• Vans: two forms of ID, such as a driving licence and a recent utility or council tax bill, both proving a Brighton & Hove address. A hired van needs the rental agreement as well and must be within the size limits. If you are taking someone else’s waste, they must come with you and bring their own ID and proof they live in the city.
• Banned vehicles: anything of 3,500kg gross weight or more, Luton vans, box bodies, flatbeds, tippers, dropsides, trailers over 1.2m and commercial vehicles carrying business signage.
• Trailers: allowed at Hove only, up to 1.2m (4ft), during normal hours. “Trailers are not permitted at our Brighton site at any time.”
• On foot: Hove only. Turn off Old Shoreham Road into St Joseph’s Close and take the alley on the right between Hove Technical Centre and SIG Roofing; turn left at the end for the pedestrian gate and a crossing into the site. Pedestrians cannot use the Brighton site at any time, as there is no safe walking route in.
• By bike: bikes and cargo bikes can enter either site but “must queue along with cars and vans in the main queuing lane”, without overtaking. At Hove you can instead push the bike in along the St Joseph’s Close route.

What you can take

The council’s accepted items list covers paper, glass, cans, cardboard, cartons, plastic bottles, books, CDs, textiles, mattresses, household and car batteries, vegetable and engine oil, hard plastics (garden furniture, large toys, water butts, wheelie bins, guttering), electricals including TVs, fridges, freezers and washing machines, fluorescent tubes, garden waste, timber, MDF, scrap metal, paint and household chemicals in a secure container. Limits and exceptions:

• Rubble and soil: up to eight standard rubble bags a month, with a maximum bag size of 50 litres.
• Plasterboard: four sheets per visit.
• Bonded asbestos: up to four bags at the Hove site only, wrapped twice in plastic, with two pieces of ID (one photo, one proving you live in the city). The Brighton site takes none. Larger amounts need a registered asbestos waste carrier.
• Not accepted: builders’ waste from work done by a trader, even at a home; any business waste; petrol and diesel; Japanese knotweed, three-cornered leek and ragwort; and fireworks, which go back to the shop or are soaked in water overnight and put in your household bin.

Kerbside alternatives

From Monday 16 November, food and drink cartons, foil and foil trays can go in the mixed recycling at the kerb, the council announced on 11 November, so those no longer need a tip run. The day-to-day rules for your own bins are on our bin collection days page, and the move to fortnightly refuse rounds is on the fortnightly collections page. Check roadworks and travel and parking before a weekend run to Wilson Avenue, when the queue can back up.

Sources: Brighton & Hove City Council: Our household waste recycling sites, How to access our sites, What you can and can’t take, Christmas and new year collection dates 2025, More materials coming to recycling collections next week (11 November 2026).