Removals in Cheam, SM2 and SM3

Removals Cheam: an old village inside a 1930s suburb

Most people who move within or out of Cheam are leaving a house built between the wars. Sutton Council's 2021 character appraisal of the Cheam Village conservation area describes the homes round the village as typical interwar housing, and the council's list of areas of special local character calls the Burton Estates in South Cheam one of the best examples of interwar suburbia in the borough. Inside that suburb, though, the old village survives: timber-framed and weatherboarded cottages from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries on Malden Road and Park Lane, Whitehall from the early 1500s, and St Dunstan's spire on its rise. And round the crossroads there are flats above shops that were rebuilt when the roads were widened in the 1920s.

So we never quote Cheam as one kind of job. The questions we ask first are simple. Is there a drive, and is it long enough for a Luton? Are there yellow lines outside? Is the road in one of Cheam's two small permit zones? Is the flat above a shop, with the stairs at the back? Are we carrying a piano down a sloping garden path? The answers decide the van, the number of people and whether Sutton needs to be asked for anything before the day.

Malden Road and Park Lane: the cottages round Whitehall

The historic core is strung along Malden Road, Park Lane, The Broadway and Park Road. The appraisal lists 5 to 9 Malden Road as seventeenth and eighteenth century houses, Whitehall at No. 1 as Grade II* listed, and a row of white weatherboarded cottages on the south side of Park Lane, most of them from the seventeenth to the early nineteenth century. It describes Park Lane as a narrow street that has kept its village feel partly by limiting vehicle access, with the road dropping away towards Cheam Park.

For a removal, that means three things. A large lorry is the wrong vehicle; a Luton or a smaller van, sometimes two trips, is right. Cottages of this age often have small doorways and tight, turning stairs, so we measure the big pieces before the day and plan to take beds, wardrobes and some tables apart. And from 1 December 2025 part of Park Lane has its own controlled parking zone. Sutton's parking checker entry for Park Lane shows zone CH1 running Monday to Saturday, 08:00 to 18:30, for odd numbers 1 to 9 and 13 to 29. If you live in one of those cottages, the van needs a plan for the zone, which we explain further down this page.

The Broadway, the High Street and Station Way: flats over the shops

The crossroads where The Broadway, the High Street, Station Way and Ewell Road meet is Cheam's shopping centre, and much of it was built in one burst. The appraisal records that the southern end of Malden Road was cleared and widened in the 1920s to make The Broadway, that the shops along it are some of the best interwar mock-Tudor in the borough, and that The Harrow was rebuilt beside the old inn in 1933. Many of these buildings are two or three storeys with flats above the shops, and the same pattern runs along the High Street, where the rows were built in the 1930s, 1940s and late 1960s, and along Ewell Road, where the shops date from the early 1930s. On Station Way, several of the shops are converted Victorian semi-detached houses with flats on the first floor, and Century House, a 1990s office block on the old cinema site, has been turned into flats.

A flat over a shop usually has its door at the side or the back, a narrow stair and no lift, so the job is really a stair carry plus a walk to wherever the van is. Our guide to flats reached by a stair behind the shop covers the questions to ask the landlord. What is particular to Cheam is the traffic. The appraisal says the roads through the village centre suffer from serious congestion, worst on the approaches from the A217, and that it only takes one large vehicle struggling to turn, or two meeting, to hold the junction up. We will not stand a removal lorry on the crossroads. We look for a side street or a rear service access, and size the vehicle so it can get in and out without blocking a bus.

Parkside and the villas west of Malden Road

South of Park Lane, Parkside was laid out in the 1920s on the grounds of the old Cheam House. The appraisal describes large detached and semi-detached villas with a strong Arts and Crafts character, deep back gardens and big trees, and notes that the whole road has double yellow lines, which is why most front gardens have been paved for drives. That is useful on moving day. Where the drive is long enough, we load from it and nothing needs booking. Where it is not, the van needs permission to wait on the yellow lines for longer than the normal loading allowance, which in Sutton means a dispensation rather than a bay suspension. We book it when you confirm the date.

South Cheam: the Burton estates

South of the railway is the part of Cheam with the largest houses, split by the A217 Belmont Rise from the streets north of Dorset Road. Sutton's 2017 appraisal of the Burton Estates explains that the land was part of the Northey Estate until it was broken up after the First World War, and that the builder Andrew Burton laid out three estates on it: the Cheam Manor Estate (Manor Road, Holland Avenue, York Road and Cornwall Road), the Cheam Warren Estate (The Avenue and Shirley Avenue) and the Cheam Downs Estate (Golf Side, Downs Side and part of Sandy Lane). Plots were sold to buyers who built individual houses in his Arts and Crafts style, with tile hanging, leaded windows and big porches. After the Second World War the remaining land filled in with smaller plots, and Warren Avenue and Northey Avenue are mostly 1960s and 1970s houses built on the old back gardens.

A five-bedroom Burton house with a garage, a loft and a garden room can be two full lorry loads, and we would rather quote that honestly than squeeze it into one. These houses are set in large gardens, so the carry can be long even with the van on the drive. We send enough people to keep a steady chain going, protect the hall floors and the stair, and take the heavy pieces out first. When there is a piano, our notes on how a piano is moved safely explain why we bring a board, straps and an extra pair of hands for it.

Interwar Cheam and North Cheam

Away from the village core, and north towards Worcester Park, Cheam is mostly interwar housing, built as the farms were sold off. Anne Boleyn's Walk, which runs off Ewell Road, is one of the best preserved stretches: the council made it an area of special local character in 2012 for its consistent mock-Tudor houses, with tile hanging and painted timbers. Houses like these are usually a full day for a crew of three. The front room bay, the narrow hall and the turn of the stair decide what goes out whole, and the side passage is often the best route for the garden furniture and the bikes.

On these roads the issue is rarely a permit zone. It is a street lined with parked cars, or a dropped kerb outside your house that the van cannot block for long. We look at the street before the day, and if the road outside is likely to be full, we book Sutton's dispensation so the van can wait close by.

Flats in the village: Tabor Court, Cheyham Park and the former dairy

Cheam has several blocks of flats where the carry, not the stair, is the main job. Tabor Court, built in the 1930s on the site of the old Cheam School, is set back about 20 metres from the High Street behind a deep belt of trees and planting, according to the appraisal. The former Elizabeth House on Park Lane was redeveloped in 2016 as accommodation for older people, now called Cheyham Park, with new houses on Mickleham Gardens and Pond Hill Gardens alongside. On Ewell Road, Nonsuch Court is four blocks of maisonettes in large grounds, and the 1930 Express Dairy buildings at the corner of Anne Boleyn's Walk are now flats called Wells Court and Fitzalan Court.

For any of these we ask the managing agent or the scheme manager where the van can stop, whether a lift can be booked and padded, and what time the move may start. If you are helping a parent leave a family house for a smaller flat, our guide on choosing what fits in fewer rooms helps with deciding what goes and what stays, and our packing team can do the boxes over one or two days so the move itself is calm.

Office removals Cheam: offices above shops and on Ewell Road

Business moves here tend to be small and local, such as a practice above a shop on the High Street or an office in Anne Boleyn House, the three-storey office building on Ewell Road. Several of Cheam's office buildings have been converted to flats in recent years, including 28 to 40 The Broadway and Century House on Station Way, so office space in the village centre is limited. We pack desks, files and cabinets in labelled crates, move in the evening or at the weekend, and set out the new office to your plan. If there is a small server or a network cabinet, our IT relocation crews disconnect, crate and reconnect it in the right order.

What a move in Cheam costs

These are our guide prices for SM2 and SM3. Your fixed price depends on how much you have, the floor you live on, the length of the carry from the van and whether Sutton needs to issue anything:

Guide prices only. Large South Cheam houses that need two loads are priced individually, and any Sutton council fee is shown as its own line inside your fixed price.

Places around Cheam

North Cheam, Lower Cheam, South Cheam and the streets round Nonsuch Park have no separate pages and are covered here. Sutton town centre lies to the east, Worcester Park and Stoneleigh to the north and west, Belmont to the south-east, and Ewell and Epsom beyond Nonsuch Park: