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Side access is pinched, the setback leaves nothing to manoeuvre in, or all that is needed is a lockable spot for the mower, an air compressor and a wall of hand tools.
Joondalup, WA
Shipping containers Joondalup
North of Joondalup the coast has been turning into suburbs for decades, and it has not stopped. Clarkson, Butler, Alkimos, Eglinton, Yanchep and Two Rocks now run in a near-continuous strip beside Marmion Avenue, with the freeway and the railway extended north to keep pace. A great deal of container work in the corridor follows the builders: a box dropped on a vacant lot to hold tools and fittings while a house goes up, then collected once the keys are handed over. The rest is split between the established suburbs around the Joondalup city centre, the industrial areas at Wangara and Neerabup, and the growers inland along Wanneroo Road.
- Stock usually drawn from
- a Fremantle depot, trucked north up the Mitchell Freeway to the northern suburbs
- What sets the timing
- Fremantle depot stock, then a freeway run up the northern corridor — the date is confirmed when you place the order
- Likely truck
- Tilt-tray for 10ft and 20ft on most lots; crane truck for laneway lots, tall retaining walls and 40ft
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What is worth knowing about this place, up front.
Buying or hiring a container in Joondalup
- What you can buy or hire here
- 10ft, 20ft and 40ft — general purpose, high cube, side opening, refrigerated and dangerous goods — in new single-trip, cargo-worthy used or as-is, to buy or to hire. Delivered to Joondalup and the district around it.
- How you get a delivered price
- Send the form below or ring 1300 467 776. The container and the cartage to your address come back as one figure from a person — nothing on this page calculates it.
- What we need from you
- The delivery suburb or postcode, what is going in it, roughly when, and ideally three photos of the entry. One call sorts it. Size, grade, where it is going and what the entry looks like — that is everything we need to price it properly.
- What changes availability and delivery
- Which yard is holding the size and grade you want, the truck your site can take — the site and the carrier decide that, not the container — and what is already travelling that way. Timing on this page is indicative; the actual date comes with the quote.
Request a delivered price1300 467 776
Cornubia is the only yard you can walk into — ring first. Everywhere else, ask for photographs of the actual unit before delivery, or inspection by arrangement at a partner depot.
Grade moves the price more than size does, and it is what decides whether a unit is sold watertight — the full rundown is on the grades page.
The range
Containers we deliver to Joondalup
Priced with delivery to your address - one call, one number.
10ft
20ft20ft Shipping Containers
There is about seven metres of straight, reasonably level ground for it to sit on, and you would rather not discover in half a year that the bigger box was the answer.
40ft40ft Shipping Containers
You have the space, the approach is genuinely open, and you want the most storage per dollar the site will allow.
The work they do around here
Around Joondalup we deliver containers for owner-builder and trade site storage on the house lots at Alkimos, Eglinton, Yanchep and Two Rocks, stock and equipment for the businesses packed into the Wangara, Landsdale and Neerabup industrial areas, packing and machinery storage on the vegetable and strawberry farms through Carabooda, Nowergup and Mariginiup, gear for sporting clubs and schools across both council areas, household storage while an older home in Duncraig, Kingsley or Woodvale is extended, furniture held during a move, and boats and fishing gear for people who launch at Hillarys or Ocean Reef.
What the driver needs from the site
The northern corridor has two shapes of residential block and they make for very different deliveries. Established suburbs around Joondalup, such as Edgewater, Heathridge, Craigie and Mullaloo, have lots that were drawn for a quarter-acre life: a driveway down one side, a gate to the back, and usually room for a 20ft on a tilt-tray if the verge trees cooperate. The newer estates are tighter. Lots at Alkimos, Eglinton, Butler and Banksia Grove are often narrow and deep, the house is built close to both side boundaries, and a good share of them are laneway lots with the garage at the back off a narrow rear lane and only a front garden onto the street. On a laneway lot the lane is often the only way in, and lanes were not drawn with a rigid truck in mind, so we need a photo looking down it and a note of anything parked there. Building sites add their own rules. The builder controls the lot until handover, the crossover and footpath may not be finished, and there may be a skip, a scaffold and a pallet of bricks exactly where you pictured the container. Ask your site supervisor where it may go before you book. Wangara is the other access puzzle: a lot of it is strata industrial units that share a narrow common driveway, so a delivery can block neighbours unless it is timed with the body corporate or the adjoining tenants. Neerabup lots are larger and easier. Out along Wanneroo Road, farm tracks are sandy and a loaded truck needs a firm route to the shed.
Joondalup
A container on the lot while the house goes up
Owner-builders and trades like a lockable box on site for the same reasons: tools stay there overnight, deliveries of fittings have somewhere to go, and nobody spends the first hour of every day unloading a ute. On a building site, though, a container is a guest. The builder decides where it goes, and it needs to be somewhere that will not interfere with the slab, the frame, the scaffold, the brick drops or the concrete pump. The front corner of a lot is often the obvious spot, but that is also where the crossover, the meter box and the services come in. A short conversation with the supervisor about sequence saves moving it halfway through the build.
Hire suits most of these jobs because the need has a natural end at practical completion. When the house is finished the container comes off the lot before landscaping starts, and you never have to find space for it again. Buying makes sense if the plan is to keep it afterwards as a garden store or workshop, and in that case think about where it will finally live on the finished lot rather than where it is handy during construction, because moving it later is another delivery. Whichever you choose, check the City of Wanneroo or City of Joondalup rules for your address, along with the estate guidelines, before the unit arrives.
Security is the other reason people put a container on a building site. Tools, copper, appliances and fittings left in a half-built house are an easy target, and new estates with streets of empty frames attract exactly that attention. A container with a lockbox over the padlock is a much harder proposition than a garage without a door. Position it where neighbours and passing traffic can see the doors rather than tucked away behind the frame, and keep the key with whoever arrives first each morning. Photos of the actual unit on request before delivery show you the condition of the doors and seals so there are no surprises.
On the ground
Retaining walls and cut limestone
The coastal ridges running up to Yanchep are limestone, and developers level them by cutting the high ground and filling the low. The result is a landscape of stepped lots held apart by retaining walls, some of them surprisingly tall, and a lot of back gardens where hard caprock sits just under a skim of sand. Caprock is excellent to stand a container on once the corners are packed level, although it is rarely flat and digging into it is slow. What deserves more thought is the retaining wall. Walls on the upper side of a lot are built to hold back what is behind them. They were not designed for an extra point load sitting near the top. Keep a container back from the edge of any wall, and if the only space is near one, ask whoever built it.
Tall walls also shape how a truck can work. A tilt-tray needs to back up to the drop spot on firm ground, and on a stepped lot that spot may be a metre above or below the driveway. A crane truck reaching over from the street may be the only sensible way in, and it needs enough clear air above the lot to swing the load. Overhead power is usually underground in the new estates, which helps, but street trees and neighbouring roofs still count. Photos from the street and from the spot back toward the street tell us most of it.
Worth knowing
Wangara, Neerabup and the growers east of Wanneroo Road
Wangara is one of the busiest light industrial areas in Perth, and it shows. Trades, wholesalers and manufacturers are packed into strata units with shared driveways and roller doors facing each other across a narrow common area. A container can sit neatly on a unit's parking bay or in a corner of the common property, but only with the body corporate's agreement, and the delivery itself briefly blocks the driveway for everyone. Timing it early in the day and letting the neighbours know avoids most of the friction. Neerabup to the north has larger lots and wider roads and is simpler, and Landsdale sits between the two in character.
Inland, the market gardens and orchards of Carabooda, Nowergup and Mariginiup have long used containers for crates, irrigation parts, fertiliser and machinery. Farm deliveries here are about the track: soft, sandy tracks between beds can bog a loaded truck even in summer, so we need a firm route from the road to the drop point, with any turning space noted. Growers keeping sprays or fertiliser should look up the storage rules before anything else, since an ordinary dry-freight box does not meet them just by having a lock. Phone 1300 467 776, say which suburb and what the box will hold, and the price you get back already includes the truck.
What delivery to Joondalup costs
We price the cartage with the unit rather than off a rate card. Give us the address and the entry and you will get a real number.
More of the region
We also deliver to Wanneroo, Clarkson, Alkimos, Yanchep, Hillarys, Perth and the surrounding district. If your town is not on the list, ring — it almost certainly still works.
Common questions
Buying a container in Joondalup
Can I keep a container on my lot while my house is being built?
Usually, yes, as long as the builder agrees on where it goes. On a building site the builder controls the lot until handover, and the container has to stay clear of the slab, scaffold, pump and brick drops. Check the City of Wanneroo or City of Joondalup rules and your estate guidelines too. Hire suits most builds because the box leaves at completion, before the landscaping goes in.
Will a 20ft fit on a laneway lot at Alkimos or Butler?
Sometimes, but the laneway usually decides it rather than the lot. Rear lanes are narrow, often have cars and bins in them, and a rigid truck needs to be able to line up square and get back out. Send a photo looking down the lane from each end, one of the spot, and the width of the gap you have available. On a tight laneway lot a 10ft is often the practical answer, or a crane lift from the street.
Can you deliver into a strata unit complex at Wangara?
Yes, with a bit of planning. Check with your body corporate before a container goes on common property or a parking bay, and let the neighbouring tenants know because the truck briefly blocks the shared driveway. An early delivery is kindest to everyone. Send us a photo of the driveway and the spot, and we will tell you which truck suits.
Which council do I check with in the northern suburbs?
It depends on the address. The City of Joondalup covers the established suburbs from Duncraig and Hillarys up to Burns Beach and Iluka. The City of Wanneroo covers Wanneroo itself, the industrial areas at Wangara and Neerabup, and the corridor north from Clarkson and Mindarie to Two Rocks. Each has its own rules on containers and outbuildings, so confirm with the right one before ordering.
Do you deliver as far north as Two Rocks and Gingin?
Yes. Yanchep and Two Rocks are part of the same run up the corridor, and rural lots further out toward Gingin and the Shire of Gingin are reachable too, as long as the approach suits a loaded truck. The dunes around Two Rocks are steep and some newer lots sit well above or below the road, so send a photo of the driveway and the spot. For rural lots, tell us about the track from the road and whether there is space to turn around.
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Get a price
Tell us what the site looks like
We deliver to Joondalup and the surrounding district. Tell us what is going in it and what the access is like, and you will get a price with the cartage worked out.
Or skip the form and ring us — 1300 467 776, Mon-Fri 7:30am-5pm, Sat 8am-12pm