Plant hire across Norfolk
Our Norwich yard on Colegate (NR3) puts us within an easy run of most of Norfolk, from the Broads and the coast down to Diss and Thetford. Everything is priced the same way wherever you are in the county: £75 per day for the 1-tonne JCB 8008 CTS micro digger, £200 per day for the 4.8-tonne JCB 48Z-1, £45 per day for the Ifor Williams LM166 plant trailer, all including VAT, plus £1 per road mile from the depot. Sites 40 road miles or further out — the far west of the county, for instance — carry a two-day minimum so the transport makes sense both ways.
JCB diggers and Ifor Williams plant trailer
Including VAT. Delivery £1 per road mile.
Weekly hire: £180 for 7 days — pay four days, keep it for seven. Weekend hire (Friday afternoon to Monday morning) is charged as a single day.
- Micro digger
- JCB 8008 CTS — 1t, £75/day
- Mini excavator
- JCB 48Z-1 — 4.8t, £200/day
- Plant trailer
- Ifor Williams LM166 — £45/day
- Operator
- Trained operator — £200/day
- Depot
- 51 Colegate, Norwich NR3 1DD
- Delivery
- £1 per road mile countywide
What it is good for
- Domestic landscaping and driveway work across the county
- Extension and garden-room footings
- Drainage, soakaways and land drains on rural plots
- Smallholding, paddock and farm-track maintenance
- Site strip and muck-away for small builders
- Plant and material transport behind your own vehicle
Where we deliver
Delivered and collected by us from the Norwich depot (NR3) at £1 per road mile, worked out on real driving distance to your postcode. Sites 40 road miles or further from the nearest depot carry a two-day minimum hire.
- Norwich
- Great Yarmouth
- King's Lynn
- Dereham
- Thetford
- Wymondham
- Attleborough
- Diss
- North Walsham
- Cromer
- Aylsham
- Wroxham
- Fakenham
- Sheringham
Who covers what.
No surprises after you book. This is exactly where our responsibility ends and yours begins on insurance, deposits and damage — the same wording as our hire agreement.
You cover the machine while it's on your site
Plant is not automatically insured by us once it leaves the depot. You need hired-in plant cover for the full replacement value (theft and accidental damage included), or you accept liability for loss and damage yourself. We may ask to see evidence of cover before we deliver.
No separate security deposit
We don't hold a damage deposit or take a card pre-authorisation. You pay the hire and delivery total up front — by card at checkout or bank transfer — and nothing further unless damage, loss, missing fuel or extra days are chargeable after collection.
Misuse and accidents are yours, breakdowns are ours
From delivery until collection the machine and attachments are your responsibility. Damage from misuse, neglect or an accident is charged at the reasonable cost of repair, and full replacement value if it's lost, stolen or written off. Fair wear and tear or a genuine mechanical breakdown is on us — stop work, ring the depot, and we'll repair or swap the machine as fast as we can.
Back clean and refuelled
Machines arrive serviced, clean and full of fuel. Return them the same way. If a machine comes back excessively dirty or short of fuel we charge the reasonable cost of cleaning or refuelling — no arbitrary penalty fees.
Access, services and competent operators
You confirm safe, legal access for our transport, mark or trace underground services before digging, and make sure only competent, trained operators use the machine. If we can't deliver or collect because access is blocked or nobody's on site, a wasted-journey charge equal to the delivery cost may apply.
Free to cancel up to 48 hours before delivery
Full refund outside 48 hours. Inside 48 hours we may keep one day's hire for the lost slot and transport. Date changes are free subject to availability.
Read the full hire terms →Plant hire Norfolk — FAQs
Do you cover the whole of Norfolk?
Yes. From the Norwich depot we deliver across the county — Great Yarmouth, Cromer, Sheringham, North Walsham, Aylsham, Fakenham, Dereham, Swaffham, Thetford, Diss, Attleborough and the villages between. Delivery is £1 per road mile each way on the genuine driving distance from NR3, worked out live from your postcode on the booking page. King's Lynn and the far west sit beyond 40 miles, so those hires take our two-day minimum.
How much is plant hire in Norfolk?
£75 per day including VAT for the 1-tonne JCB 8008 CTS micro digger, £200 per day for the 4.8-tonne JCB 48Z-1 mini excavator and £45 per day for the Ifor Williams LM166 plant trailer. A trained operator is £200 per day. Delivery is the only extra, at £1 per road mile from the depot — nothing else is added at the end.
Can you deliver to rural sites and farm tracks?
Routinely. Most of our Norfolk work is rural — paddocks, land drains, ditching, farm tracks and smallholdings. What helps is telling us at booking how firm the going is and whether there is roughly 12 m of clear space to unload from the trailer. On soft or wet ground the lighter 1-tonne machine is often the safer choice, and boards or mats are worth laying on the route.
Which Norfolk towns are inside single-day hire?
Anywhere within 40 road miles of NR3, which covers Norwich, Great Yarmouth, Wroxham, Aylsham, Wymondham, Attleborough, Dereham, North Walsham, Cromer, Diss and most of central and eastern Norfolk. Beyond that — King's Lynn, Hunstanton, the far west — a two-day minimum applies.
How much is delivery?
Delivery is £1 per road mile from our Norwich depot (NR3), charged on genuine driving distance to your postcode rather than a flat zone rate — so a job five minutes away costs a fraction of one an hour away. The booking page works the cost out live from your postcode before you pay, and all prices include VAT. Sites 40 road miles or further from the nearest depot carry a two-day minimum hire.
Do I need a licence or ticket to use it?
There is no legal requirement for a licence on private domestic work, and our machines go out on a self-drive basis to competent operators. On commercial and CDM-regulated sites your principal contractor will normally expect a CPCS or NPORS card for excavator operation. If you would rather not operate it yourself, we can supply a trained operator with the JCB 8008 CTS for £200 per day — just ask when you book.
What happens if something goes wrong on site?
Every machine leaves us serviced, fuelled and checked, and we walk you through the controls at handover. If a machine develops a genuine fault during your hire, call the depot and we will repair or swap it — you are not charged for downtime that is our fault. You are responsible for the machine while it is on your site, so it should be immobilised and secured overnight, and any accidental damage or loss is chargeable.