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A borough of Georgian terraces, riverside towers and car-free new-builds, where the move is decided by parking, and where the council lets a resident moving house suspend a second bay free on day one.
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Hire a van for the day, carry everything yourself and drive it yourself. It wins on cash when the load is small and the street is easy. The Greenwich catch is the van’s legal position: on a controlled street the hire van needs the same arrangement as ours, a suspension at £66.40 per bay per day plus £66.40 admin, or a £34.30 yellow-line dispensation, and the suspension needs 10 working days’ notice.
A booked two-man crew does the carrying, the driving and the placing. On our published card a typical Greenwich 2-bed move totals £340 to £510, and the parking is in the plan from the start, including the council’s moving-house concession, which takes the second bay’s day-one charge off the council bill where it applies.
Send both postcodes and a room-by-room list and the quote comes back in writing, valid for 7 days, with the crew, the hours and the parking answer settled. That last part sets the timetable in Greenwich: a suspension application needs 10 working days, so the quote stage is where the date is protected.
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Removals in Greenwich run on our published hourly card: 2 Men at £85 an hour with a two-hour minimum, so a typical 2-bed Greenwich move totals £340 to £510 including loading, unloading and carrying. No deposit to book, and free cancellation up to 24 hours before the move. The Greenwich difference is parking: a bay suspension costs £66.40 per bay per day plus £66.40 admin on 10 working days’ notice, but a resident moving house can suspend a second bay at no charge on the first day, and we build that concession into the plan wherever it applies.
Greenwich’s housing was built in layers, and each layer moves differently. The oldest layer is the town itself: Georgian and Victorian terraces and villas around the centre and in the Ashburnham Triangle, inside conservation areas, on narrow streets that park on both sides. Blackheath, on the hill to the south-west, holds the borough’s grandest period stock, much of it raised above or set back from the road. Charlton, Plumstead and the streets around Shooters Hill are Victorian and Edwardian terraces; Eltham and New Eltham are the interwar layer, semis with driveways and garages. The newest layer is vertical and riverside: the towers of Greenwich Peninsula, the converted arsenal buildings and new blocks at Royal Arsenal Riverside in Woolwich, and Kidbrooke Village on the old Ferrier Estate site.
The moves follow the housing. The borough’s staple job is the step up: out of a flat in the town centre, the Peninsula or Woolwich and into a house in Charlton, Plumstead or Eltham, usually a short hop that stays inside the borough. Downsizers move the other way, out of Blackheath and Shooters Hill houses into flats nearer the centre. The Peninsula, Royal Arsenal and Kidbrooke blocks churn with renters on one and two-year tenancies, so flat moves there run all year, and the Elizabeth line at Woolwich and Abbey Wood has pulled a new wave of movers into the borough’s east. Family moves bunch at the end of the school summer term, as they do everywhere in London.
House-to-house moves within London are charged on our published hourly card: £70 per hour for driver help, £85 per hour for two men, and £100 per hour for three men, with a two-hour minimum. Stairs add £5 per floor at either address where the carry is by stairs; where a lift serves the floor there is no floor charge. Packing materials, if you book packing, are £5 per box, £15 for wrap and £10 per roll of tape.
No deposit is needed to book. Cancellation is free up to 24 hours before the move; cancelling inside 24 hours may be charged at up to 25% of the quoted price. Quotes are valid for 7 days, and payment is taken at the time of service.
Greenwich’s mix runs from one-bed flats in the Peninsula towers to four-bed houses in Eltham and Blackheath, so every row of this table gets used here. The new-build flats usually price off the 1-bed and 2-bed rows, with the building’s lift slot deciding where in the range the total lands; the period houses sit in the middle and upper rows, with the carry and the parking setting the hours.
| Property size | Typical crew and hours | Typical total |
|---|---|---|
| Studio | Driver Help, 2 hours (the minimum booking) | from £140 |
| 1-bed home | 2 Men, 2 to 3 hours | £170 to £255 |
| 2-bed home | 2 Men, 4 to 6 hours | £340 to £510 |
| 3-bed home | 3 Men, 5 to 7 hours | £500 to £700 |
| 4-bed and larger | 3 Men, 6 to 8 hours | £600 to £800 |
Basis: the published hourly card (Driver Help £70, 2 Men £85, 3 Men £100 an hour, two-hour minimum), checked October 2026. Totals are illustrations from the stated crew hours, with loading, unloading and carrying included; your written quote confirms the total for your move. Rated 5.0 on Google.
Access in Greenwich comes in two regimes. In the period west, access is the street: narrow, fully parked, often inside a conservation area, where the van’s position is a council suspension or dispensation and the carry runs from that position to the door. In the new-build east and on the Peninsula, access is the building: a concierge or managing agent, a lift slot, a loading bay and set move hours, settled before the day. A move often joins the two regimes together, a terrace at one end and a tower at the other, and the plan has to satisfy both.
The recurring cases: town-centre moves around the market and the Cutty Sark, where the one-way system and daily market trading leave very little loading room and early starts do the work; Blackheath and Shooters Hill houses set back or raised above road level, where the carry is the job; car-free developments, where there is no resident permit for the van to borrow and the loading plan is the development’s own area or a council arrangement outside; and addresses fronting the A2 or A206, which are TfL red routes where borough suspensions do not apply. Each case is settled at quote stage from the two addresses.
Greenwich offers two council products, and the right one depends on the street. A parking bay suspension reserves a specific bay, of any bay type, for the van: you apply online, the council emails its decision, and approved bays are signed with the date and the reason. A virtual parking dispensation instead covers the van standing on a yellow line, which on town-centre streets with no bay to suspend is often the better fit. Both are the council’s products: you apply and pay the council directly, and we confirm which product and how many bays each address needs at quote stage.
The concession is the fact to know before you book anything. Royal Borough of Greenwich publishes this: if you are a resident moving house, you can ask to suspend a second parking bay at no charge on the first day of the suspension. Both bays are charged from the second day. A Luton van needs about two bays, so on a one-day move the concession covers the second half of the van’s footprint for nothing. It is claimed through the normal application; we simply make sure it is in the plan, because most people moving in Greenwich never hear of it.
The costs: a suspension is £66.40 per bay per day, plus a £66.40 admin fee per application, which is non-refundable. One bay for one day therefore costs £132.80. Two bays for one day, with the moving-house concession on the second bay, also come to £132.80; without the concession the same day costs £199.20 all-in, and each further day for two bays is £132.80. Applications need 10 working days’ notice and the council publishes no shorter route, so parking, not the van, sets the timetable: agree the quote, apply, then treat the date as fixed. A dispensation is £34.30 per day on at least 7 working days’ notice, applied for online once you hold a council permit account.
Before paying for anything, check the zone. Greenwich’s controlled parking zones vary street by street: the town centre zone runs seven days a week, while a good number of residential zones operate only for a short window on weekdays, an hour or two in the middle of the day. A move that happens wholly outside a zone’s operating hours may need no suspension on that street at all, and some streets sit in CPZ Exemption Zones where the permit controls do not apply. We check the actual street at quote stage and will tell you plainly if nothing needs arranging.
Two limits, stated plainly. If you cancel a suspension, the council charges 20% of the cost or £66.40, whichever is more, and cancellation runs up to the day before. And while the council can issue a penalty notice to a vehicle sitting in your suspended bay (report it on 020 8921 4339), it cannot remove the vehicle, so the fallback is the nearest workable loading position, agreed with you on the spot. Finally, borough suspensions cover council streets only: the A2 and A206 are TfL red routes, where stopping follows TfL’s rules.
Georgian streets around the market and the Cutty Sark, on a one-way system with very little loading room. Early starts, booked parking and longer carries are the pattern.
Villas and period houses on the hill, many raised above or set back from the road, so the carry from the van is often the longest part of the job. The village straddles the borough border, so the council running the parking depends on which side of it the address sits.
The conservation grid of Victorian terraces west of the town centre: narrow, fully parked streets where the suspension plan decides the day.
Victorian terraces and family houses between the town centre and Woolwich. The borough’s classic step-up destination from the riverside flats.
Converted arsenal buildings and new riverside blocks, many of them car-free, with concierge rules and loading areas; the Elizabeth line station has made this the borough’s busiest moving quarter.
The towers around the O2: car-free developments with booked lifts and loading bays, and no resident parking permit for the van to rely on.
The new-build quarter on the old Ferrier Estate site: managed loading, lift bookings and car-free rules, a short hop from the Blackheath and Eltham houses people move to.
Terraces and semis on the slopes above Woolwich, with controlled parking around the station and the High Street.
Interwar semis and family houses with driveways: the borough’s most straightforward loading, and its longest internal journeys from the riverside.
Houses set back and raised above the A207 on the borough’s high ground; long carries and steep approaches are priced into the quote.
Estates and maisonettes at the borough’s eastern edge, where the Elizabeth line at Abbey Wood has tightened parking around the station.
The borough’s journeys run on the A2, the A206 and the A102 approach to the Blackwall Tunnel. The tunnel approach is the borough’s peak-time bottleneck, and a move between the riverside west and Eltham or Abbey Wood is timed around it.
Greenwich Market trades every day of the week and the town centre is at its tightest at weekends, when the streets around the market and the Cutty Sark carry their heaviest footfall; town-centre moves are planned for early starts and pre-booked loading positions.
| Point of comparison | The typical way | With Vano Removals |
|---|---|---|
| Who carries | You do, with a self-loading service; a platform sends whichever team it assigns | Our own crew carries, loads and places everything |
| Deposit to book | Common: a deposit or the first hour taken upfront | None; nothing is paid until the service is done |
| Free cancellation | 48 hours ahead at the largest services | Up to 24 hours before the move |
| Price confirmed before the day | An hourly rate, with the total left to the day itself | A written quote with the total, valid for 7 days |
| Who turns up | The driver or team the platform assigns | The firm you booked and spoke to |
Basis: the published terms of the large London services and booking platforms, checked October 2026, against our own published card and booking terms. The full four-way comparison is on our compare page.
The full house-move page for the borough: the housing stock street by street, the parking concession worked through in numbers, a worked example and the moving-day timings.
For single items, part-loads and small flat moves: the same published card at Driver Help and two-man rates, with the Greenwich parking facts in short form.
Packing booked as crew time plus materials, for the whole house or the fragile rooms only, planned around your building’s move window.
You book the unit in your own name at the facility you choose; we load, transport and stack it, and bring everything back when the new address is ready.
Each guide below covers one service in Greenwich. The hub above is the area overview; these pages go into the service-specific detail.
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The property types, carries and street conditions that shape a move in Greenwich, from the first wrapped item to the last room placed.
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House moves in Greenwich are charged on our published hourly card: £70 an hour for Driver Help, £85 an hour for 2 Men and £100 an hour for 3 Men, with a two-hour minimum. A typical 2-bed house move takes 4 to 6 hours on a two-man crew, so totals run £340 to £510; a 3-bed on the three-man crew over 5 to 7 hours runs £500 to £700. Stairs add £5 per floor at either address where the carry is by stairs; lift-served floors carry no floor charge. Your written quote confirms the total for your addresses before you book.
It depends on the street and the hour. Inside a controlled parking zone’s operating hours, the van needs a legal position, which usually means a suspension or a dispensation. But a good number of Greenwich zones operate only for a short window on weekdays, so a move that happens wholly outside those hours may not need a suspension on that street, and some streets sit in CPZ Exemption Zones where the permit controls do not apply at all. We check both addresses at quote stage and tell you plainly which case each street is.
£66.40 per bay per day, plus a £66.40 admin fee per application. One bay for one day is £132.80. Two bays for one day with the moving-house concession also come to £132.80, because the second bay carries no charge on day one; without the concession, two bays for one day cost £199.20 all-in. Applications need 10 working days’ notice. These are the council’s charges: you apply and pay the council directly.
It is Royal Borough of Greenwich’s own published rule: a resident who is moving house can ask to suspend a second parking bay at no charge on the first day of the suspension. Both bays are charged from the second day. A removal van needs about two bays, so on a one-day move the concession covers half the van’s parking footprint. It is claimed through the normal application, and we build it into the parking plan whenever it applies.
Sometimes. A virtual parking dispensation covers the van standing on a yellow line and costs £34.30 per day, with at least 7 working days’ notice. On town-centre streets around the market and the Cutty Sark, where there may be no bay to suspend, it can fit the street better than a suspension. We survey the access at quote stage and recommend whichever product genuinely suits the address.
You do, as the householder, online through the council; the charges are paid to the council and the admin fee is non-refundable. We supply the vehicle registration, confirm how many bays the Luton needs (usually two) and which product suits each street, and plan the date around the notice period. If you have to cancel a suspension, the council charges 20% of the cost or £66.40, whichever is more, up to the day before.
The council can issue a penalty charge notice to a vehicle parked in a suspended bay, and you can report it to Customer Services on 020 8921 4339, but the council cannot remove the vehicle. Our fallback is the nearest workable loading position, agreed with you on the spot, which is one more reason the plan starts with the parking rather than discovering it on the morning.
Residents of many of these developments cannot get a parking permit at all, so there is no permit fallback for the van. The plan is either the development’s own loading area and lift booking, arranged with the managing agent, or a council suspension or dispensation on the public highway outside the development. Tell us which development when you enquire and the arrangement is settled before the day; it is the single most common Greenwich surprise, and it is entirely avoidable.
As a planning guide: a 1-bed home takes about 2 to 3 hours, a 2-bed house about half a day (4 to 6 hours including travel within the borough), a 3-bed most of a day (6 to 8 hours), and 4-bed and larger houses a full day, sometimes split across two. In Greenwich the swing factors are the conservation areas’ narrow streets, the town centre’s loading limits and new-build lift slots, more than the size of the house.
Yes: Greenwich, Blackheath, Charlton, Woolwich, Plumstead, Abbey Wood, Thamesmead, Eltham, New Eltham, Kidbrooke and Shooters Hill. It is one council, so the same suspension rules, fees and concession apply at every address in the borough. The exception is any address fronting a red route, the A2 or A206, where TfL’s stopping rules apply instead.
Yes, where it is booked in advance and listed on your written quote: beds and flat-pack furniture are the usual pieces, and in the Peninsula and Royal Arsenal towers dismantling is often what gets a large piece into the booked lift. Loading, unloading and carrying are included in the hourly rate; packing is an extra you can add, with materials at £5 per box, £15 for wrap and £10 per roll of tape.
Insurance is as stated in your written quote: ask us to confirm in writing.
No deposit is needed to book. Cancellation is free up to 24 hours before the move; cancelling inside 24 hours may be charged at up to 25% of the quoted price. Quotes are valid for 7 days, and payment is taken at the time of service.
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