Where we collect from.
London and the South East
London, Kent, Surrey, Sussex, Essex, Berkshire and Hampshire, including Maidstone, Canterbury, Guildford, Brighton, Chelmsford, Reading and Slough.
The nearest region to the Channel ports, and the one where the UK end most often needs paperwork of its own. Most London boroughs require a parking bay suspension for a removal vehicle, applied for in advance, and many mansion blocks and new developments ask for lift bookings, insurance details or set loading times.
Across the rest of the South East, the usual questions are narrow village lanes, shared driveways and gravel drives a large vehicle should not use.
The East of England
Cambridge, Norwich, Ipswich, Bedford, Peterborough, Colchester and the villages of Suffolk and Norfolk.
Many homes here are rural or on the edge of market towns, so access often comes down to the lane and the turning space at the end of it. Where a full-size vehicle cannot reach the door, goods are shuttled to it by a smaller one.
The South West and Wales
Bristol, Bath, Cheltenham, Gloucester, Stroud and the Cotswolds, Exeter, Plymouth, Cardiff and Swansea.
Steep streets in Bristol and Bath, stone cottages with low doors in the Cotswolds, and long farm tracks in Devon, Cornwall and rural Wales. The survey records which large pieces need dismantling to come out of the house at all.
Depending on the destination, some loads from the west use the western Channel ports rather than Dover. We choose the crossing when we plan the route.
The Midlands
Birmingham, Coventry, Nottingham, Leicester, Derby, Wolverhampton and Stoke-on-Trent.
A mix of suburban houses with driveways and city-centre apartments with managed car parks and lift bookings. Tell us about the building management early, because some need notice before a removal crew can use the lifts or loading bay.
The North of England
Manchester, Liverpool, Leeds, Sheffield, York, Newcastle, Durham, Chester, Halifax and towns across Lancashire and Yorkshire.
Terraced streets with tight parking, converted mills with goods lifts, and farmhouses in the Dales and the Lakes. The drive to the Channel is longer from here, but the planning is the same: volume and access decide the quote far more than the postcode.
Scotland
Glasgow, Edinburgh, Aberdeen, Inverness, Stirling, Perth and Dundee, and the Highlands and Borders.
Scotland has the longest UK leg of any of our collections. Tenement flats with common stairs mean longer carries, and Highland addresses can be a long way down single-track roads. Both are measured at survey so the quote reflects the real job.
International removals from Inverness, Aberdeen or Stirling to France, Italy, Spain or Portugal follow the same process as a collection in London: survey, written quote, packing and paperwork, then the journey south.
Northern Ireland
Belfast, Derry/Londonderry, Lisburn, Newry and the surrounding counties.
Collections from Northern Ireland include an extra sea crossing, and goods leaving Northern Ireland follow different customs arrangements from those leaving Great Britain. Mention it in your first message so the paperwork is planned correctly from the start.
