Skip bin hire, Boronia: a teal skip of branches and fence palings on the driveway of a post-war house beside new units, treed foothills behind

Skip bin hire in BoroniaSkips for homes, gardens and renovations in Boronia 3155

Townhouses and units near the station, family homes up the foothills, and gardens full of big trees. Tell us what’s going in, and we’ll help you pick the size.

  • Postcode 3155
  • Knox permit arranged if it goes on the road
  • Mini skips for units and townhouses

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Boronia is named after the boronia plants grown at local councillor Albert Chandler’s nursery, and its railway station opened in 1920. Eastern Skip Hire delivers skips across Boronia, from the townhouses and units near the station to the streets climbing to the edge of the Dandenong Ranges National Park.

Boronia is all City of Knox, and so is its 3155 postcode. Across Dandenong Creek, Bayswater North and Kilsyth South are in Maroondah, with a different permit for a skip on the road.

A skip on the street in Boronia

On your driveway, no permit is needed. On the road or nature strip, the City of Knox wants a permit first, and the skip company applies for it, so we arrange it when the skip can’t fit on your property.

  • Skip company applies, not you

    Knox

    Knox says residents and property owners do not need to apply: only the skip provider can. A placed skip can be at most 7.5 m long, 2.5 m wide and 1.5 m high.

    Fee: $196 per placement for a one-off permit (up to 7 days, at least 14 days’ notice), or $58 per placement for accredited providers on a $563 annual permit

Every council’s rule side by side: skip bin permits in Melbourne’s east.

Boronia homes, and what they fill a skip with

One home in four is a townhouse or semi-detached, well above Victoria’s share, by the 2021 Census.

  • 24.8%of occupied homes are townhouses, row houses or semi-detached (Victoria: 13.9%)
  • 50.4%have three bedrooms
  • 28.1%are rented

A move out of a unit or townhouse, often with a short or shared driveway, usually suits a 2 or 3 m³ mini skip. The family houses on the foothill streets, with their bigger gardens, suit a larger skip for a renovation or a garden clear-out.

Garden clean-ups: most homes are under a tree overlay

About 59% of Boronia’s homes are under at least one of Knox’s tree overlays, by our count of Vicmap addresses.

  • Dandenong Ranges Buffer (Environmental Significance Overlay Schedule 3, about 29% of homes): protects indigenous vegetation. Dead trees are exempt, except standing dead trees 40 cm or more across.
  • Dandenong Foothills landscape overlay (Schedules 2 and 3, about 34% of homes): a permit is needed to remove, destroy or lop any tree 5 m or taller, or with a trunk girth over 0.5 m, exotic or native. Dead trees are exempt only below 0.4 m girth.
  • Canopy tree protection (Vegetation Protection Overlay Schedule 4, about 17% of homes): native trees and listed exotics such as lemon-scented gum and brush box, once they reach 5 m tall or 0.5 m girth.

Some homes sit under more than one. Only the roughly 7% of homes in the mapped bushfire prone area, mostly the eastern foothills towards The Basin, can use the Clause 52.12 bushfire exemptions to clear close to the house.

A state-wide rule applies on top of that. In most residential zones (not Low Density Residential), Clause 52.37 needs a permit to remove, destroy or lop a canopy tree at least 5 m tall with a canopy averaging at least 4 m across. On a block with a house, that narrows to trees with any part of the trunk within 6 m of the narrowest street frontage or 4.5 m of the rear boundary. A dead tree is exempt. Look up your block on VicPlan, or ask the council, before you cut.

Creeks, storms and clean-ups in Boronia

Blind Creek runs through Boronia and Dandenong Creek forms its northern edge. Knox’s flood plan names Old Joes Creek, in Boronia, as a tributary of Dandenong Creek.

The SES lists Boronia among the Blind Creek suburbs most likely to be affected in a flood. Between 2010 and 2021, the SES logged 830 tree-down and 122 flooding requests in Boronia, the most of any suburb in Knox’s flood plan table.

After a storm, keep branches separate from timber and rubbish if you can: a load of garden waste only can go as a green waste skip.

Skips we deliver in Boronia

General waste skipsGarage, shed and house clean-outs: furniture, boxes, carpet and general junk.4 to 8 m³ Green waste skipsGarden clean-ups: prunings, hedges, ivy and leaves, kept separate from soil and rubbish.3 to 6 m³ Builders and renovation skipsRenovation and building waste: plasterboard, timber, cabinets, tiles and packaging.3 to 10 m³ Soil and concrete skipsSoil, clean fill, concrete, bricks and rubble in smaller heavy-duty skips.2 to 4 m³ Mini skipsSmall skips for one-room jobs, townhouses and tight or steep driveways.2 or 3 m³

Not sure which size? Compare skip sizes or see published skip bin prices.

Nearby suburbs

Common questions

Can Knox’s branch collection take my garden prunings?

Some of them. Knox collects bundled branches every fortnight, on top of the weekly food and garden bin. Each bundle must be tied, no more than 30 cm across and 1.5 m long, and no heavier than 30 kg. Timber, stumps, roots, soil, untied small branches and branches with nails or wire aren’t collected. A big clear-out, stumps or soil go in a skip.

Where’s the nearest tip to Boronia?

There isn’t one in Boronia. In a straight line, by our measure, the closest are the Montrose Transfer Station, about 3 km past Boronia’s edge in Yarra Ranges, and the Knox Transfer Station and Recycling Facility in Wantirna South, which Knox lists for its residents, about 4 km away. Both are privately run, so check their hours and what they take before you go.

Where this information comes from

The local rules and figures on this page come from these published pages, checked on 2 October 2026.

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