GIDEA PARK · RM2 · LONDON BOROUGH OF HAVERING
Removals in Gidea Park begin in Romford’s garden suburb: exhibition houses on tree-lined streets, drives in front of most doors, and an Elizabeth line station at its heart. The moves here turn on volume and period layouts, and we quote from the house itself, not the postcode.
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Removals in Gidea Park: Driver Help £70 per hour, 2 Men £85 per hour, 3 Men £100 per hour, 2-hour minimum. An exhibition house with 2 Men for 4 hours totals £340. Havering’s charges are the council’s and sit outside the quote.
Your enquiry
Exhibition houses hide their size. Tell us the floors, the loft and garage contents and anything oversized or fragile, and say whether the van loads from a drive or the kerb, and the quote follows the house, not the street’s reputation.
For the borough-wide picture (rates, areas and services), start with the Havering removals hub.
The local picture
Gidea Park began as an idea: the Romford Garden Suburb, laid out for the cottage exhibitions of 1910 and 1912, when leading architects of the day each designed houses for these streets. Well over a hundred exhibition homes survive around Heath Drive and Risebridge Road, inside a conservation area, and they still set the suburb’s character: no two fronts quite alike, all of them gardened and tree-lined.
The station, in Zone 6 on the Elizabeth line, ties the suburb to Romford in one direction and the City in the other. For movers, the practical picture is kind: drives in front of most houses, sensible street widths, and volume as the main variable: period houses hold more than they show. Whole-house moves start from house removals in Havering, and the Romford town pages carry the detail for packing services in Romford if the books and china need professional hands.
Streets and spots
The heart of the garden suburb: the 1910 and 1912 exhibition houses around Heath Drive, each designed individually: tile-hung walls, timber gables, deep porches. Drives are part of the design, which helps loading.
More exhibition streets running south: consistent setbacks, hedged gardens and mature trees. Some rear garages sit behind the houses, so garden contents can mean a longer carry than the front suggests.
The park west of Main Road, with its lake and the old lodge. Streets facing it are among the suburb’s most settled, and moves there are planned around a calm kerb rather than a bay.
The lane climbing north from the station side towards Collier Row: larger plots and a mix of period and later houses, with the lanes narrowing beyond the suburb’s edge.
The spine linking Gidea Park to Romford centre. Houses and flats fronting it load with more care: bus routes, faster traffic and bays that fill early.
Gidea Park station, on Station Road by the Main Road junction, serves the Elizabeth line. The streets just around it carry the suburb’s only regular controlled parking.
Homes and access
The suburb’s signature homes: individually designed cottages and houses from the 1910–1912 exhibitions, often larger inside than their garden-suburb fronts suggest, with period stairs and doors that deserve protection as pieces pass.
Beyond the exhibition core, the streets settle into the Romford pattern: bay-windowed semis and detached houses with drives, garages and full lofts. Volume, not access, sets the hours.
A modest number of smaller blocks and conversions gather near the station. These bring the suburb’s stair carries and its bay questions; floors and lift presence belong in the first enquiry.
Bigger plots on the western and northern edges, with side access and rear garages. Garden rooms, sheds and workshops add up, so list them with the rooms.
Parking in Havering
The garden suburb was designed with front gardens and drives, and most moves here load without any council involvement. The exception is the station end and the Main Road frontage, where controlled bays appear and the van may need formal cover to wait.
Havering publishes its bay suspension charges in tiers: 70 pounds per day per bay for up to seven days; a higher daily rate per bay for eight to fourteen days (see the council page for that middle tier); and £195 per day per bay beyond fourteen days. Applications must reach the council at least five working days ahead. Havering also makes a point worth repeating: it presents the suspension route as the one used by utility and street work companies, and directs household moves to check the dispensation route, so we establish which route your address needs before anything is applied for.
Parking suspension fees are charged by the council and paid to the council, never added to the removals quote. The application itself is yours to make to the council; our part is settling the vehicle, the date and the space with you first, so the form goes in right.
Content updated October 2026
How it runs
Every floor, the loft, the garage and the garden buildings, plus the drive or kerb position.
Crew size, expected hours and any floor charges confirmed in writing.
Driveway agreed, or the correct Havering route checked with five working days in hand.
We load, carry, drive and unload with the booked crew.
Prices
House-to-house removals in London from Gidea Park are charged at £70 per hour for Driver Help (1 man and van), £85 per hour for the 2 Men Team and £100 per hour for the 3 Men Team, confirmed in your written quote before the day is fixed.
1 man and van
£70
£70 per hour
For smaller houses, part-moves and single heavy pieces with help at hand.
Standard choice
£85
£85 per hour
The usual crew for the suburb’s family houses and their contents.
Larger homes
£100
£100 per hour
For the biggest exhibition houses, full lofts and long garden carries.
Upstairs flats add £5 per floor for each floor above ground carried to by stairs, counted at pickup and at delivery. A lift serving the floor means no charge for that floor, and the ground floor is £0. The minimum booking is 2 hours.
Illustrations only, from the published card: rate times hours, with a 2-hour minimum. Stairs add £5 per floor where the carry is by stairs; council parking charges are the council’s and sit outside the quote.
If you are packing yourself, materials are charged at £5 per box, £15 for wrap and £10 per roll of tape. Office and commercial work, and any move beyond London, sits outside this hourly card and is priced by individual written quote.
Parking suspension fees are charged by the council and paid to the council, never added to the removals quote.
No deposit to book. Cancel or rearrange without charge up to 24 hours before your move; within 24 hours, a charge of up to 25% of the quoted price may apply. Quotes are valid for 7 days. Payment is taken at the time of service. If the move runs beyond the quoted hours, the extra time is charged at the same hourly rate shown at booking. Loading, unloading and carrying are included, as are dismantling and reassembly where booked in advance; packing is included only where booked and listed in your quote.
Questions
Exhibition houses, conservation streets and the right council route are the regular topics. For your own street, name it on the form.
Ask about your street
Call 07459 180023 (Mon–Fri 7am–8pm · Sat 8am–6pm · Sun 9am–4pm) with the address to hand, or put it on the form and we will answer in writing.
The published scale is tiered: 70 pounds per day per bay for up to seven days; a higher daily rate per bay for eight to fourteen days, with the council page showing that middle figure; and £195 per day per bay beyond fourteen days. Applications need at least five working days of notice, and the charges are the council’s, paid to Havering, never added to your removals quote.
Not the move itself. Conservation status governs alterations to the houses, not loading a van outside them. What it does mean locally is drives and front gardens kept as designed, mature trees narrowing some streets, and period layouts inside: deep bays, turns on the stairs, original doors worth protecting. Tell us the street and we plan the carry and the van position around the house, as with anywhere else.
On most Gidea Park streets, no. Where the van loads from your driveway or waits lawfully at an unrestricted kerb, no council arrangement is needed. The question arises on controlled bays near the station and Main Road. There, note Havering’s own steer: it presents the suspension route for utility and street work companies and directs household moves to check the dispensation route. We confirm which applies at quote stage.
The £5 per floor charge covers each floor above ground the crew carries by stairs, at either address. Exhibition houses often spread over two or three floors with a turn on the stair, but the charge follows the floors, not the turns: ground floor £0, and a floor served by a lift carries no charge. Your written quote itemises it per address.
Yes. Gidea Park is Romford’s eastern suburb, and both ends sit inside Havering and inside London, so the move runs as one house-to-house booking on the hourly card. The planning difference is at the town-centre end, where flats and bays replace drives; both ends are covered in the one written quote.
Usually, yes, if we know in advance. Name the piano, its type and the route it must travel (door widths, the stair turn, the garden path) and list the book volume honestly, because books decide box counts and hours. Heavy or specialist pieces are assessed from those details and written into the quote rather than discovered on the day.
Insurance is as stated in your written quote: ask us to confirm in writing.
Gidea Park
Send both addresses, the floors and the loft and garage contents, and we will reply with a written quote sized to the house.
The area in pictures
The property types, carries and street conditions that shape a move near Gidea Park, from the first wrapped item to the last room placed.
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