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Vano Removals is a removal company working across the whole London Borough of Lewisham: house removals, flat moves and man and van hire, from the new towers at Lewisham Gateway and the Deptford waterfront to the period conversions of Brockley and the family streets of Forest Hill, Sydenham and Lee. This page is the honest starting point: our published rates are below, the borough’s parking suspension rules are explained with the council’s actual fees, and the questions worth asking any removal company, including us, are answered in the open.
Every Vano move is confirmed in a written, itemised quote before you book, so you know the crew size, the vehicle and the scope in advance. Our hours are Monday to Friday 7am–8pm, Saturday 8am–6pm and Sunday 9am–4pm. If you are comparing companies, compare them on specifics: the crew size in writing, the vehicle, the parking plan, and the rate if the day runs long. Those are the numbers that decide what you actually pay, and they are the numbers this page publishes.
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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. The Lewisham catch is parking: on a controlled parking zone street the hire van gets the same 20 minutes of loading time as anyone else, and a suspension for the two spaces a Luton-sized van needs costs £186 in council charges on a resident-bay street, so even the cheap option needs a parking plan.
A booked crew does the carrying, the driving and the placing. On our published card a typical Lewisham two-bed move totals £340 to £510, the parking at both addresses is planned before the day, and the Lewisham and Lee Green Low Traffic Neighbourhood is routed around in advance, not discovered with a loaded van.
Send both postcodes and a room-by-room list and the quote comes back in writing, valid for 7 days, with the crew, the vehicle and the hours settled before you commit. That matters in Lewisham because a parking suspension needs five working days of notice: the quote stage is where the moving date gets protected.
Quick answer
Removals in Lewisham run on our published hourly card: Driver Help £70, 2 Men £85 and 3 Men £100 an hour, two-hour minimum, so a typical two-bed 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 Lewisham difference is parking: most residential streets sit in controlled parking zones, a suspension costs £62 admin plus £56 or £62 a bay, and it needs five working days of notice, so the parking is settled at quote stage, not on the morning.
Our published rates
1 man + van
£70per hour
Charged per hour, 2-hour minimum booking
Most popular
£85per hour
Charged per hour, 2-hour minimum booking
For bigger moves
£100per hour
Charged per hour, 2-hour minimum booking
These hourly rates are for house-to-house removals within London: every hour is charged at the same published rate, £85 an hour for a two-man Luton crew, the same rate from the first hour to the last. Office and commercial moves are priced in a written quote.
Your exact price is confirmed in a written quote once we know the access at both addresses.
Lewisham’s mix runs from one-bed conversions in Brockley to four-bed family houses in Forest Hill and Lee, so every row of this table earns its place here. The parking at each address, not the postcode, decides where in the range a total lands.
| 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; your written quote confirms the total for your move.
What we do
Full-house moves are our core work in Lewisham: two and three-man crews with a Luton van and tail lift, furniture protected in transit, and dismantling and reassembly where it is agreed in your quote. Start with our dedicated page on house removals in Lewisham, which covers the borough’s property types, realistic timings and the parking suspension process step by step.
For studio and one-bed moves, single items and storage runs, our hourly man and van service is usually the right size of help. You choose Driver Help or a two or three-man crew, and the clock-based pricing is published above. See man and van in Lewisham for how the service works across the borough.
Lewisham’s period conversions and new-build blocks come with very different rules, shared staircases and conservation streets at one end of the borough; lift bookings, concierge sign-in and car-free developments at the other. Tell us the building’s rules when you enquire and we plan the move around them.
Packing is a bookable extra: full or part packing, agreed and itemised in your written quote, with materials supplied by us. If you would rather pack yourselves, say so at quote stage and the quote covers the move itself. See our packing services.
A sofa, a fridge, a marketplace purchase, or a load into or out of storage, priced on the same published hourly card as man and van work, so a small job is never a guessing game.
Coverage
We cover the whole borough. In the north, that means Deptford and New Cross, Victorian terraces, post-war estates and the waterfront new-builds, and Lewisham and Catford themselves, the borough’s two town centres. Across the middle, Brockley, Crofton Park, Honor Oak and Ladywell: period conversions on conservation streets, and Forest Hill just beyond them. In the south and east, Sydenham, Lee, Hither Green and Blackheath’s Lewisham side, larger Victorian houses, 1930s semis and family streets. Moves out of the borough are just as common: we regularly run Lewisham moves into Greenwich, Bromley and Croydon, and longer-distance moves are quoted on the same written basis.
Local knowledge matters most on the day itself, and Lewisham has several distinct patterns:
Parking and access
This is the part of a Lewisham move worth reading before you set a date. If your street is in a controlled parking zone (CPZ), and Lewisham has extensive coverage around the town centre, Catford and the station areas, with more streets being added under the council’s Sustainable Streets programme, a removal van cannot simply sit in a parking bay all morning. Lewisham Council offers one product:
A parking bay suspension reserves a marked bay for your move. House removals are one of the reasons the council explicitly lists. The suspended bay is marked with yellow warning boards, and a standard bay space is 5.5 metres, a Luton van needs roughly two of them.
How it works. Applications are made online only, through a council suspension account. You give the street and postcode, the dates and times, a description of the exact spot, and the registration numbers of every vehicle using the space, we supply ours, and you pay by card as part of the application. There is one application, and one admin fee, per road. The minimum notice is 5 working days. Apply later and there is a £62 short-notice fee on top, which the council does not refund. Extensions need the same 5 working days before the existing suspension runs out.
What it costs. The council’s published fees are a £62 admin fee per application, plus £56 per bay per day for pay-to-park or shared-use bays, or £62 per bay as a one-off charge for resident permit bays. So one resident bay for one day at standard notice costs £124 all-in; the two bays a Luton needs come to £186. One pay-to-park bay is £118, and two are £174. These are the council’s charges, not ours: you apply and pay the council directly.
Three honest details the council itself is open about. First, a suspension reserves the bay on paper, the council accepts that it cannot promise the space will actually be clear, which is why it runs a problems line on the day (020 8787 5397) and can enforce against a vehicle parked in a suspended bay. Second, where there are no bays to suspend, waiting restrictions instead, the route is a temporary traffic order via the council’s street works team; and Lewisham does not suspend bays on TfL red routes, which include stretches of the A20 and A205. Third, where no suspension is booked, loading and unloading is permitted for 20 minutes in resident and pay-to-park bays, sometimes enough for a small, quick job, and we will tell you honestly if yours is one.
Our role. You make the application as the householder; we supply the vehicle registrations, confirm how many bays the van needs, and plan the date around the 5-working-day notice. If your street needs nothing, outside a CPZ, with room to load legally, we say so rather than sell you a process you do not need. And check both addresses: a suspension at the house you are leaving does not cover the house you are arriving at.
Your quote is confirmed in writing, with the scope itemised: crew size, vehicle, what is dismantled or packed, and parking. The price includes loading, unloading, carrying and protecting your furniture in transit, plus dismantling and reassembly where that is booked in advance. Packing and packing materials are not included unless they are booked and listed on your quote.
There is no deposit to book. Your quote is valid for 7 days. You can cancel without charge up to 24 hours before your move; cancellation within 24 hours of the move may incur a charge of up to 25% of the quoted price. Payment is taken at the time of service. Two things can change a price after booking: the move running beyond the hours in the quote, charged at your crew’s hourly rate as shown at booking, and council parking charges, which you apply for and pay the council directly as set out above.
Content updated October 2026. Official sources for this page: Lewisham Council (parking bay suspensions: charges, notice periods and the application route; the suspension terms and conditions; loading and unloading rules) and Transport for London (red routes). Council charges checked against the council’s published pages in October 2026.
Choosing well
Search for removals in Lewisham and you will find a lot of pages that could be about anywhere, the same text with the borough’s name swapped in. The differences that actually matter are easy to check:
Ask us those questions too. The answers are on this page and in your written quote.
1. Enquire with both postcodes and the access at each end, floor, lift, stairs, parking.
2. Receive your written quote, itemised, with the crew and vehicle named.
3. Parking is arranged inside the council’s 5-working-day notice period, at both addresses if needed, and the LTN route into your street is planned at the same time.
4. Moving day: we protect your furniture, load in a sensible order, transport, unload and place items where you want them, and reassemble anything the quote agreed to rebuild.
5. Questions at any point, call 07459 180023 within our hours: Mon–Fri 7am–8pm, Sat 8am–6pm, Sun 9am–4pm.
Three things decide what a Lewisham move costs, and none of them should be a surprise on the day:
Volume. A two-bed conversion in Brockley and a four-bed house in Forest Hill are different jobs. Volume decides crew size, whether the Luton does it in one trip, and how long loading takes, which is why an honest quote asks what is actually going.
Access at both addresses. Stairs without a lift in a period conversion, a long carry because the van cannot park close, an LTN filter adding a loop to every run, these add time, not mystery fees. All time is charged at the published hourly rate for your crew, and that rate is in your quote before you book.
Parking. A suspended bay outside the front door is the fastest, most straightforward way to load. Lewisham’s suspension charges are the council’s, you apply and pay the council directly; the 5-working-day notice is the real constraint, so it is handled first.
That is the whole formula. If another company quotes you noticeably less for the same move, it is usually quoting fewer hours, a smaller crew, or no parking, ask which, in writing.
The comparison
| 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.
Plan your move
House moves charged by the hour: £85 an hour for two men, £100 for three. Get a written quote or call 07459 180023, and if your move is a house or a smaller job, compare the dedicated pages for house removals in Lewisham and man and van in Lewisham first. You can also check what fits with our van size checker and read our guide to how much removals cost. Moving nearby instead? See house removals in Greenwich and house removals in Bromley. Keeping the cost down? Read our page on cheap removals in Lewisham.
The borough in pictures
The property types, carries and street conditions that shape a move in Lewisham, from the first wrapped item to the last room placed.
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Questions and answers
Crews are charged by the hour on the published card: Driver Help £70 an hour; 2 Men £85 an hour; 3 Men £100 an hour, with a two-hour minimum booking, plus £5 for each floor above ground where the carry is by stairs. Worked totals on that card: a small job at the two-hour minimum starts at £140, a typical two-bed move comes to £340 to £510, and a three-bed to £500 to £700. Your actual price depends on volume, access at both addresses and parking, and it is confirmed in a written quote before you book.
If either address is on a CPZ street and the van needs to wait in a bay, yes. A suspension costs £62 admin per application, plus £56 per bay per day in pay-to-park bays or £62 per bay as a one-off charge in resident permit bays, and it needs a minimum of 5 working days’ notice; later applications pay a £62 short-notice fee. Where no suspension is booked, loading is permitted for 20 minutes in resident and pay-to-park bays, which occasionally suits a very small job.
You do, as the householder, online through Lewisham Council’s suspension account; the council takes card payment as part of the application. We supply the registration numbers, confirm how many bays the Luton needs (usually two 5.5-metre spaces), and plan the date around the notice period.
The parking sets the floor: a suspension needs 5 working days’ notice, and applying inside that window adds a non-refundable £62 short-notice fee. The practical order is quote first, then parking, then the date is safe. If neither address needs a suspension, shorter notice is often workable; ask and we will tell you honestly.
Insurance is as stated in your written quote: ask us to confirm in writing.
Look for five things: a written, itemised quote; a named crew size and vehicle; parking and suspensions raised openly, with Lewisham Council’s charges explained; published rates you can compare before you enquire; and recent reviews you can verify on Google. A Lewisham page that never mentions anything actually in Lewisham is a warning sign in itself.
Yes. Long-distance moves are one of our services, priced by distance and time in the written quote on the same basis as a local move. Parking rules at the destination apply there as they do here, so tell us the full address when you enquire and both ends are planned together.
Yes. Beds and flat-pack furniture can be dismantled and rebuilt when that is agreed in your written quote. Mention the pieces that need it when you enquire (wardrobes and bed frames are the usual ones) and the time is built into the quote rather than improvised on the day.
There is no deposit to book, and payment is taken at the time of service. Your quote is valid for 7 days from the date it is issued. If your plans change, you can cancel without charge up to 24 hours before the move; cancellation within 24 hours may incur a charge of up to 25% of the quoted price.
Included: loading, unloading, carrying, and protecting your furniture in transit, plus dismantling and reassembly where the quote agrees it. Not included unless booked: packing and packing materials; where packing is booked, materials are charged at £5 per box, £15 for wrap and £10 per roll of tape. Council parking charges are the council’s own: you apply and pay the council directly. If a move runs beyond the quoted hours, extra time is charged at the published hourly rate for your crew.
The whole borough: Lewisham, Catford, Deptford, New Cross, Brockley, Crofton Park, Honor Oak, Ladywell, Forest Hill, Sydenham, Lee, Hither Green and the Lewisham side of Blackheath, and moves into, out of and within the borough.
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“Best house removal company around. The team at Vano Removals was punctual, hard-working, and handled our furniture with great care. If you need reliable, stress-free local movers or packing services, I highly recommend them.”
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