Horsham tip opening times: 9am to 4pm until 31 March

Horsham’s tip, the Hop Oast recycling centre on Worthing Road, is open Monday and Thursday to Sunday and closed every Tuesday and Wednesday. Since 1 October it closes at 4pm instead of 6pm, until the end of March, and you cannot drive in without a booked slot. Billingshurst, the district’s other tip, keeps different days. Here are both, with the booking rules, what you can bring, and what happened at Christmas last year.

Overview

• Horsham (Hop Oast), Worthing Road, RH13 0AR: open Monday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday, 9am to 6pm until 30 September and 9am to 4pm from 1 October to 31 March. Closed Tuesday and Wednesday (West Sussex County Council, Horsham Recycling Centre).
• Billingshurst, Newbridge Road, RH14 9HZ: open Saturday to Wednesday, same hours. Closed Thursday and Friday (Billingshurst Recycling Centre).
• You must book a slot online or on 01243 642106. Last Christmas every West Sussex tip was shut on Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New Year’s Day.

Updated 8 October: winter hours are in force, and the county’s booking calendar confirms the winter days are unchanged (details below). West Sussex has still not published a 2026 autumn notice or its Christmas closures.

Horsham tip this week: open days and slots

We read the county’s Book to Recycle calendar for both tips on 8 October 2026. It is the system you book through, so it shows exactly which days a centre is taking visitors:

• Horsham (Hop Oast) has slots on Thursday 8, Friday 9, Saturday 10, Sunday 11 and Monday 12 October, none on Tuesday 13 or Wednesday 14, then slots again from Thursday 15 to Monday 19 October. That is the usual Monday and Thursday to Sunday pattern, carried into the winter.
• Billingshurst has slots on Saturday 10 to Wednesday 14 October and again from Saturday 17 to Wednesday 21 October, and none on Thursdays or Fridays.
• Each open day has 14 half-hour slots, the first at 9am and the last at 3.30pm. If you want to get in before the 4pm close, the 3.30pm slot is the latest you can book.
• Slots open 14 days ahead. On 8 October the calendar listed Thursday 22 October at Hop Oast with nothing yet bookable, so if a date two weeks out looks full, it may simply not have opened.
• Weekend slots were wide open when we checked: every Saturday and Sunday slot at both centres was still free. Thursday 8 October at Hop Oast had already lost three of its 14.

The calendar changes by the minute, so treat this as a guide to which days the tips open and book on the Book to Recycle system itself.

Where is Horsham tip?

Horsham tip, also called Horsham dump or the Hop Oast tip, is Horsham Recycling Centre, Hop Oast, Worthing Road, Horsham, RH13 0AR, telephone 01403 253016 (West Sussex County Council, Horsham Recycling Centre). It is the only tip in the town itself; the district’s other one is at Newbridge Road, Billingshurst, RH14 9HZ.

It is run by West Sussex County Council, not Horsham District Council, which is why bookings go through the county’s system rather than the district council’s. The district council handles your wheelie bins; see Horsham bin collection days for those.

Opening hours at the district’s two tips

West Sussex County Council runs both centres. Its summer hours run from 1 April to 30 September; from 1 October to 31 March each centre closes at 4pm (Horsham Recycling Centre).

Between them the two tips cover every day of the week, so if Horsham is shut on a Tuesday or Wednesday, Billingshurst is open.

Last autumn the county’s announcement confirmed the same winter days: Horsham on Monday and Thursday to Sunday, Billingshurst on Monday to Wednesday and Saturday to Sunday, all centres 9am to 4pm (West Sussex County Council, 26 September 2025). The same notice listed the nearest centres over the district border: Shoreham-by-Sea (Wednesday to Sunday) is the closest for Steyning and Henfield, and Crawley opens Monday to Wednesday and Friday to Sunday.

Christmas and New Year

West Sussex has not yet published its Christmas 2026 hours. Last year its notice said all centres will be closed on Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New Year’s Day (West Sussex County Council, 26 September 2025). On their other normal days they kept winter hours of 9am to 4pm.

In 2026 Christmas Day falls on a Friday and New Year’s Day on a Friday. If last year’s closures are repeated, Hop Oast would be shut on Friday 25 and Saturday 26 December, open on Sunday 27 and Monday 28 December, shut on its usual Tuesday and Wednesday, open on Thursday 31 December, then shut on Friday 1 January. That makes the Sunday and Monday after Christmas the busy days. The county’s booking page warns that demand is high over bank holidays (Book to Recycle).

For bin collections over Christmas, including the catch-up Saturdays, see Horsham Christmas bin collections.

Booking a slot

Every West Sussex recycling centre needs a booking, except the mobile centres (Book to Recycle). The rules:

• Up to five visits a calendar month.
• Book up to 14 days ahead, or on the day if a slot is free.
• Arrive any time within your 15 or 30 minute slot.
• You need the vehicle’s registration, your address and an email address. The registration cannot be edited, so a mistake means cancelling and rebooking.
• Bring your booking confirmation and proof of residency if asked; most centres are for West Sussex residents only.
• The phone line, 01243 642106, is open Monday to Friday, 9am to 5.30pm.

Staff turn away cars that arrive without a booking, too early, or after the slot has ended (terms and conditions).

Vehicles, walking in and rubble

• No vans taller than 2.2 metres, no Luton vans, horseboxes, tippers, flatbeds or drop-sides, and nothing over 3.5 tonnes at either site.
• Trailers: Horsham accepts no trailers of any sort. Billingshurst bars only twin-axle (four-wheel) trailers.
• On foot or by bike: not allowed at Horsham. At Billingshurst you can arrive on foot, by bicycle or on a mobility scooter without booking, and hand your waste to staff at the gate; there is no safe walkway, so walk-in visitors cannot use the reuse shop.
• Building rubble: every centre takes up to 200kg of construction and demolition waste, about a small car boot load or eight 25kg rubble bags (terms and conditions). Check individual items in the county’s A to Z of recycling.
• Batteries and small electricals must be kept separate from household waste, which the county asks for to prevent fires. Both centres have a disabled parking bay with dropped kerbs.

Billingshurst also has a reuse shop selling donated goods, and every centre has a paint reuse container.

For traffic and roadworks on the way to either tip, see Horsham roadworks and travel, and for town-centre parking, parking in Horsham.

Still to be confirmed

• Christmas 2026 closures, expected in the county’s autumn hours notice (last year’s was published on 26 September) or in December.
• Whether the winter days change. Settled for now: the booking calendar on 8 October showed Hop Oast open Monday and Thursday to Sunday and Billingshurst Saturday to Wednesday, the same days as the summer, with the last slot at 3.30pm.

This page will be updated when the county confirms.

FAQs

Is Horsham tip open on Tuesday?

No. Horsham (Hop Oast) is closed on Tuesdays and Wednesdays all year. Billingshurst is open on both days.

What time does Horsham tip close in winter?

4pm, from 1 October to 31 March. In summer it closes at 6pm.

Do I need to book to use Horsham tip?

Yes. Book a slot on the county’s Book to Recycle system or on 01243 642106, up to 14 days ahead.

Is Horsham tip open today?

Horsham tip opens Monday and Thursday to Sunday, 9am to 4pm in winter, and is shut on Tuesdays and Wednesdays. You still need a slot: the last one each day starts at 3.30pm. On a Tuesday or Wednesday use Billingshurst instead.

Where is Horsham dump?

At Hop Oast, Worthing Road, Horsham, RH13 0AR. “Horsham dump”, “Horsham tip” and “Hop Oast tip” all mean the same county council recycling centre.

What is the latest slot I can book at Horsham tip?

3.30pm from October to March, when the centre closes at 4pm. Each open day has 14 half-hour slots starting at 9am.

Can I take a trailer to Horsham tip?

No. Hop Oast accepts no trailers. Billingshurst bars only twin-axle (four-wheel) trailers.

Sources

• West Sussex County Council, Horsham Recycling Centre and Billingshurst Recycling Centre
• West Sussex County Council, Book to Recycle booking system and terms and conditions
• West Sussex County Council, recycling centres switch to autumn/winter opening hours, 26 September 2025

Checked against the county council’s own pages and its Book to Recycle calendar on 8 October 2026.