Dumpster rental in Doylestown, PA

If your container is going on a Doylestown Borough street or right-of-way, you need a permit from the borough's Department of Building and Zoning at 57 West Court Street. Their number is (215) 345-4140. If the container is going on your own driveway, you do not need one.

As published by the borough, the fee is $25 for an unmetered stall and $50 per week for a metered stall. The permit must be posted on the dumpster. The container has to come off the street within two weeks unless you get the permit extended, and the borough wants an inspection when it is placed and a final inspection when it is removed, which is what closes the permit out.

Fees and procedures change, so confirm current figures with the borough when you apply. The one thing that does not change is the sequence: get the permit before delivery, not after a code officer notices.

The address does not distinguish them. The permit desk does. Everything above applies to the borough. If you are outside the borough line in Doylestown Township, that is a separate municipality with its own rules, and you should ask us before assuming the borough process applies to you.

The older core of Doylestown is the reason the metered-stall fee exists. Downtown and the surrounding streets have limited frontage, metered parking, brick sidewalks that nobody wants a truck tracking across, and the kind of nineteenth century housing where the renovation debris is plaster, lath, cast iron and original millwork.

That material is dense. A container that looks half empty can already be at its tonnage allowance. On historic district work we generally suggest sizing for weight rather than for how full the box looks, and the 13-yard with its 1.5 ton allowance is often the honest answer even when the volume argues for something bigger.

Outside the historic core, Doylestown's later neighborhoods have ordinary driveways and ordinary access, and the permit question usually never comes up at all.