Where the van actually goes
The question that decides a Peckham move
Where the vehicle can legally and physically stand is the question that decides an SE15 move, and it varies street by street rather than area by area. We establish it for your actual address before quoting, because the difference between standing at the door and standing a street away is the difference between two quite different days.
Street by street
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Almost never outside
Rye Lane
Bus lanes, loading restrictions and a street that is busy with people rather than only traffic. Assume the vehicle stands elsewhere and everything is carried, and be pleasantly surprised if it does not.
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Rarely, and not for long
Peckham High Street
Similar picture with more through traffic. Where there is a legal option it is usually short and it is usually round the corner rather than at the door.
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Sometimes, with planning
Queens Road
A main road with sections that work and sections that absolutely do not. Which one you are on matters enormously and it is worth establishing at the survey rather than on the morning.
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Usually manageable
Bellenden Road
Narrower and calmer, with genuine possibilities. The constraint here is width rather than restriction — a large vehicle on Bellenden takes up most of it.
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Usually fine
Nunhead Lane and around
More residential in character and generally workable, though much of it is controlled parking so a suspension is still frequently the right answer.
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Fine, but narrow
The terraced streets
Off the main roads it is mostly Victorian terraces with cars both sides, which leaves one usable lane. Access is easy and courtesy matters, because the van is in everybody’s way while it is there.
Why it matters this much
The distance gets carried twice
Everything you own travels from the flat to the vehicle, and then from the vehicle into the new place. If the van is standing a street away, that walk is paid for in time at both ends of the day.
It is not a hidden cost and it is not anybody being difficult — it is simply a real one, and it belongs in a quote rather than being discovered on arrival.
Which is why we establish the standing position for your actual address before quoting, rather than for the road your address is on.
The bay suspension
Much of Peckham and Nunhead sits inside a controlled parking zone, which means the kerb outside your door is not available to a removals vehicle simply because you live there. A suspension has to be arranged with Southwark in advance.
It applies to houses as well as flats. Having a frontage makes a suspension easier to arrange, not unnecessary.
- It cannot be sorted out on the morning.
- It is worth it wherever the alternative is a long carry.
- We will tell you at the survey whether you need one and what it involves.
- If a firm quoting you has not mentioned it at all, ask why not.
Questions worth asking any quote
Where will the vehicle stand at my address? How far is that from my door? Is that distance included in this price? Do I need a suspension?
A quote given without any of those being asked is a number somebody is planning to revise on your doorstep.
What is included either way
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The standing position established first
For your actual address, before quoting. It is the question that decides everything else about a Peckham move.
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The turn measured, not the doorway
A narrow street door is rarely the problem. The turn at the bottom of the stair is what actually defeats furniture here.
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Advice on the bay suspension
Whether you need one and what it involves, in time to actually arrange it with Southwark rather than after.
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Communal protection as standard
Shared halls, stairs, decks and door frames covered before anything goes through them, on every job including a single item.
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Fire doors left alone
Never propped, whatever it costs us in trips. In an HMO or a block above a shop this genuinely matters.
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Our own packaging taken away
A pavement on Rye Lane is not a place to leave a pile of cardboard, and neither is a deck.
Get a quote
Tell us what is underneath you
A shop, a kitchen, a deck, or your own front door — and which street. Those two answers get us most of the way to a price that will not change when we arrive.