Removals in Ealing W5, from Ealing Green to the town centre

House removals Ealing: what changes from one W5 street to the next

This page is about central Ealing, the W5 town that grew up around Ealing Green, and about the Ealing Council rules that apply on every street in the borough. West Ealing (which is W13), South Ealing, North Ealing and the streets round Ealing Broadway station each have their own page, linked lower down. Within central Ealing the moves we plan fall into four kinds, and the kind decides the van, the size of the crew and how early the paperwork has to start.

Ealing Green, St Mary’s Road and Mattock Lane. The oldest part of the town runs south from the Broadway down St Mary’s Road, with Ealing Green and Walpole Park on one side and side streets of Victorian houses on the other. Much of it is inside the Ealing Green conservation area, which the council first designated in 1969 and last extended in 2004 to take in The Park, Park Place and Kerrison Villas. On moving day that changes nothing, because conservation status controls building work, not vans. What does matter is that many of these houses have been split into two or three flats, so a one-bedroom move can mean a top-floor flat with a turning stair and no lift. We ask which floor and how the stair turns before we quote, and our flat removals crew takes beds and wardrobes apart upstairs rather than forcing them round the landing.

The Zone A streets towards Ealing Common. Grange Road, Florence Road, The Grove, Oxford Road, Windsor Road, Western Road and St Mark’s Road sit in the council’s Zone A, Central Ealing. Its hours are long: Monday to Thursday 08:30 to 19:30, Friday and Saturday 08:30 to 23:00, and Sunday 10:00 to 16:00, according to the council’s Zone A page. People often assume a Sunday move gets round the parking. In Zone A it does not, because the bays are controlled through the middle of the day, which is exactly when the van is outside. These are the streets where a family house move most often needs two suspended bays, one for the Luton and one so the crew is not carrying from the end of the road.

Flats over the shops and the newer blocks. Along The Broadway, New Broadway, the High Street and Bond Street a lot of people live above a shop, with a street door between two shopfronts and a straight, steep stair behind it. The van cannot stop on the main road for long, and the stair limits what comes down in one piece. Our guide to moving into or out of a flat above a shop covers what to measure. The newer blocks of flats round the town centre work the other way: lifts, but also a managing agent who sets the hours, the entrance and the insurance paperwork. We send our certificate as soon as the date is agreed.

Students around the University of West London. The university’s campus is on St Mary’s Road, and the streets round it, from Warwick Road and Kerrison Road to Coningsby Road and Ranelagh Road, are full of shared houses and small flats. They sit in Zones C and D, controlled Monday to Friday from 10:00 to 19:30, and Saturday from 10:00 to 16:00 in Zone C. Student moves come in waves at the start and end of the academic year, so the bays outside go quickly. A room’s worth of boxes in a small van is a short job, which is why our student moves are usually priced by the hour rather than as a full day.

Office removals Ealing: moving a business out of the town centre

Central Ealing has a working office market of its own, mostly in the blocks along the Uxbridge Road and above the shops between the Broadway and the Green. Business moves here tend to be small and awkward rather than large: a twenty-desk firm on the second floor with one lift shared with a dentist and a lettings agent. Ealing Council will suspend pay and display bays as well as residents’ bays, so a weekend office move on a shopping street is possible, but in Zone A the bay rules still run on Saturday evening and Sunday. Our office removals service books the bays and the building’s lift together, and the IT relocation team labels and reconnects desks, screens and comms cabinets so Monday starts on time. Our guide on how to plan an office move in London has the full timeline.

For a fixed price on your Ealing removal, call 020 3983 5199 with the street name and we will check its zone before quoting.

Ealing removals price guide for W5

Guide prices for a move starting in central Ealing. Your fixed price depends on the floor, the stair, the number of bays and whether packing is included:

Indicative prices only. The Ealing Council suspension fee is included in the fixed price. Our guide to what removals cost in London explains each factor.

Storage and moves abroad from W5

Two jobs come up in central Ealing more often than the size of the town would suggest. The first is storage while a Victorian house is being worked on: buyers on the conservation-area streets often take a house that needs a new kitchen or a loft conversion, and the furniture has to go somewhere for a few months. We collect, hold the load in secure storage and deliver when the rooms are ready, booking a fresh bay for the return. The second is moving abroad. Our international removals team packs, inventories and documents a shipment from the same W5 address, so the bay is only booked once.

Other parts of the borough with their own page

The places below each have their own page with the detail for those streets. Central Ealing’s page does not repeat them.