1 tonne micro digger
JCB 8008 CTS
- 950 kg operating weight
- 700 mm retracted width
- 1.73 m max dig depth
- Zero tail swing
£75 / dayNorwich & Peterborough
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Plant & Digger Hire
Across Norfolk & Cambridgeshire.
Modern, well-maintained machines delivered to your site from our Norwich and Peterborough depots. Micro diggers from £75 a day, delivery at £1 per mile, dates booked online in minutes.
£75
Per day
£1
Per mile
2
Depots
What do you need, where, and when?
Prices include VAT. Delivery is £1 per mile round trip from your nearest depot, worked out live from your postcode.
Your estimate
Add your site postcode and we'll price the hire and the delivery run before you commit to anything.
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Stage V JCB fleet
Late-model JCB 8008 CTS and 48Z-1 machines, serviced before every hire.
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£1 per mile delivery
Round-trip delivery and collection from Norwich or Peterborough — priced before you book.
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Book online in 2 minutes
Live diary, no double bookings, instant confirmation by email.
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Insured & VAT registered
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Our machines
Three machines. Published rates.
A small, modern fleet we know inside out — serviced before every hire and delivered from the depot nearest your site.
5 tonne mini excavator
JCB 48Z-1 5t Mini Excavator
- 4,805 kg operating weight
- 1.96 m dozer width
- 3.71 m max dig depth
- Zero tail swing
£200 / dayNorwich & Peterborough
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16 ft plant trailer
Ifor Williams LM166 Trailer
- 3,500 kg gross weight
- 2,500 kg max payload
- 16 ft × 6 ft 6 in bed
- Twin axle · Cat BE
£45 / dayNorwich depot only
View machineHire rates
Day rates, published up front.
Delivery is £1 per mile round trip from your nearest depot. Weekly hire is billed as four days — pay 4, keep it 7. A weekend counts as one day.
JCB 8008 CTS micro digger
£75 /day
£300 per week
1 t · 700 mm wide
JCB 48Z-1 5t mini excavator
£200 /day
£800 per week
4.8 t · zero tail swing
Ifor Williams LM166 trailer
£45 /day
£180 per week
Norwich depot · Cat BE
Ticketed operator
£200 /day
£800 per week
Micro digger hires
/ 01 The Machine
JCB 8008 CTS
Click any photo to open the booking diary and pick your dates.
Spec Sheet
- Operating weight
- 950 kg
- Retracted width
- 700 mm
- Max dig depth
- 1.73 m
- Max reach
- 3.16 m
- Engine
- Perkins 403D
- Tail swing
- Zero
Rear gardens
Fits through a standard 700mm doorway or side passage.
Indoor demolition
Low emissions and compact footprint for inside work.
Landscaping
Patio lift, drainage trenches, foundation digs.
Utilities
Quick service trenches in tight residential plots.
/ 02 5 Tonne Excavator
JCB 48Z-1
Both depots · £200/day · Zero tail swing
5-tonne class mini excavator. Step up from the 1-tonne for foundations, drainage and bulk dig. Click any photo to open the diary.
Spec Sheet
- Operating weight
- 4,805 kg
- Max dig depth
- 3.71 m
- Max reach
- 5.71 m
- Dozer width
- 1.96 m
- Engine
- Stage V diesel
- Tail swing
- Zero
Foundations & footings
Comfortable digging depths to 3.7m for strip and trench foundations.
Drainage runs
Bulk dig pace with the finesse for service trenches and manholes.
Site strip & muck shift
Front dozer blade for grading, backfilling and levelling.
Hardstanding & driveways
Ideal mid-weight machine for domestic and light commercial groundworks.
/ 01b The Trailer
Ifor Williams LM166
Norwich depot only · £45/day
16ft twin-axle dropside flatbed, 2.5 tonne max payload. Click any photo to open the diary.
Spec Sheet
- Length
- 16 ft
- Width
- 6 ft 6 in
- Gross weight
- 3,500 kg
- Max payload
- 2,500 kg (2.5 t)
- Axles
- Twin axle
- Licence
- Cat BE
Plant transport
Loading ramps and lashing points for mini diggers and dumpers.
Site clearance
Dropside panels for bulk waste and aggregate runs.
Landscaping
Move turf, decking, paving and tools in one trip.
Trade & DIY
Towable on a Cat BE licence behind a 4x4 or pickup.
/ 02 Capability
Perfect for:
From small jobs to large-scale construction, we provide modern, well-maintained machines and experienced operators you can trust.
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Short or long term hire
Flexible options to suit your project
- ✓Groundworks
- ✓Site Clearance
- ✓Trenching
- ✓Landscaping
- ✓Demolition
- ✓And More
Real work · Real sites
See the work, not stock photos.
Genuine Sterling Plant Group jobs: domestic access, indoor excavation, tree clearance and larger site preparation.
/ 02 Delivery£1/mile.
£1/mile.
Plain & simple.
Flat-rate delivery from your nearest depot. No fuel surcharges, no postcode tax. We charge the round trip from yard to your site and back.
- £1£1 per mile from depot to site (each way).
- 2D2-day minimum hire on sites 40+ miles from your nearest depot.
- ↔We auto-route from Norwich or Peterborough — whichever is closer.
Delivery Estimator
Enter a UK postcode to estimate your delivery cost.
/ 03 Cover
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.
Insurance
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.
Deposit
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.
Damage
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.
Fuel & condition
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.
Your site
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.
Cancellations
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 →/ 03 Process
How it works
01
Request
Tell us the machine, dates and site postcode.
02
Quote
Same-day quote with delivery breakdown.
03
Deliver
Dispatched fuelled from your nearest depot.
04
Collect
We collect when you're done. No fuss.
/ 04 Depots
Two yards. East Anglia covered.
Norfolk
Norwich Depot
NR3 1DD
- Contact
- Brian
- Phone
- 07359 365 679
- Hours
- Mon–Sat · 6am – 6pm
Cambridgeshire
Peterborough Depot
PE1
- Contact
- Caiden
- Phone
- 07387 967 698
- Hours
- Mon–Sat · 6am – 6pm
Areas we cover
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Clean power · Stage V
JCB's cleanest engines.
Less fuel. Less noise. More uptime.
Our JCB 8008 CTS runs the latest Stage V compliant powerplant — designed for low emissions, low noise and the urban, indoor and emission-restricted sites our customers are working on every day.
- AutoStop fuel saving
Engine shuts down during inactive use — no wasted diesel idling on site.
- DPF without downtime
Diesel Particulate Filter regenerates in the background — maximum uptime on the dig.
- Near-zero emissions
Modern Stage V engines produce ~98% less particulate matter and ~97% less NOx than a 1999-era machine.
- Zero tail swing
Safer to operate in tight urban sites, indoors and alongside other trades.
Industry standards
Hired to UK plant standards.
Every machine leaves the depot serviced, inspected and ready to work — operated to the same safety and competence frameworks used across the UK plant-hire industry.
CPA — Construction Plant-hire Association↗HAE — Hire Association Europe↗HSE — PUWER 1998 guidance↗HSE — LOLER 1998 guidance↗CITB — Construction Industry Training Board↗CSCS — Construction Skills Certification Scheme↗
Sterling Plant Group operates in line with guidance from the above industry bodies. Logos and trade marks remain the property of their respective owners; links are provided for reference only.
/ Customer reviews
What our customers say
★★★★★ 5.0 / 5 · 8 reviews
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"I recently hired a 1 tonne mini digger for a weekend garden landscaping project, and I couldn't be happier with the entire experience. From the first phone call, the team was helpful, friendly, and transparent about pricing and terms. The digger was delivered right on time on Friday morning, and the delivery driver was polite, knowledgeable, and even gave me a few quick tips on operating the controls safely in a tight space. The machine itself was practically brand new, very clean, well-serviced, and full of diesel ready to go. It made light work of shifting stubborn clay and clearing roots, saving me weeks of back-breaking manual labour. Collection on Monday morning was just as smooth and hassle-free. Competitively priced, reliable, and genuinely great people to deal with. I will not hesitate to use them again for my next project. Highly recommended
Contract · Peterborough
September 2026
★★★★★
Hired a micro digger for a job I’m working on and couldn’t fault anything from start to finish. Will be using again in the future for sure
Robert C · Peterborough
September 2026
★★★★★
I contacted this company to hire a mini digger and couldn’t have been happier with the service. Delivery was on time as previously agreed, customer service was brilliant and the machine ran smooth throughout the work we carried out. Definitely recommend Sterling Plant Hire and there services.
Oaks · Peterborough
September 2026
★★★★★
Hired a micro digger delivery pick up and customer service was very good highly recommend
Mohammed · Peterborough
September 2026
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Rang up about hiring a digger for the weekend on Friday evening very last minute and Caiden had it dropped off within the hour. Used the machine to level my garden ready for slabs to be laid
Kieran · Peterborough
August 2026
★★★★★
Hired a digger for a few days. Had it dropped off and picked up without any issues. Very friendly staff, very reasonably priced, highly recommended.
Hannah · Norwich
August 2026
★★★★★
I hired a micro digger from Sterling Plant Group and honestly couldn’t fault the whole process. From the first message, Caiden was really helpful, easy to deal with and got everything arranged without any hassle. The digger arrived on time, was in great condition and was perfect for the job I needed doing. Collection was just as straightforward, and there were no hidden surprises or complications. Really good service from start to finish and I’d definitely use Sterling Plant Group again. Would highly recommend them to anyone needing a mini or micro digger. 👍
Kevin · Peterborough
August 2026
★★★★★
I hired a micro digger from Sterling plant group found on Facebook. Very good response time organisation and delivery. Very simple friendly and easy.
Charlie · Peterborough
August 2026
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