Removals in New Barnet EN5

What a New Barnet house is like to move out of

The roads round the station were built as a speculation on the new line, and they show it. Barnet Council’s pocket history of New Barnet lists Leicester, Lytton and Lyonsdown roads by January 1860, and notes that several of the Victorian street names, Leicester, Richmond and Plantagenet among them, come from the Battle of Barnet. Holy Trinity Church went up in 1864 and had its own parish of Lyonsdown five years later, yet the Ordnance Survey of the mid-1890s still showed roads thirty years old with few houses on them. The gaps were filled by the First World War, so the age, size and layout of a house can change from one door to the next.

For a removal, the older houses are the ones that take the time. They tend to have tall rooms that were furnished to match: wardrobes, dressers and bookcases that came in through the front door decades ago and now have to go back out of it. A family that has been in one of these houses for twenty years usually has a loft, a cellar or a garage that holds as much as a bedroom, and that is where quotes go wrong. We ask about every one of those spaces on the call, and if the loft is full we would rather you saw our notes on clearing out before the move than paid for a second lorry to carry things you were going to throw away. Our house removals crews dismantle the big pieces, wrap them and rebuild them at the other end.

Flats in divided Victorian houses

Where one of the larger Victorian houses has been split into flats, the move becomes a staircase problem. There is usually one shared front door, one hall that the other residents still need, and a staircase built for a single household. A top-floor flat under the roof often has sloping ceilings and a door that was cut into the eaves, and a sofa that went in flat-packed may not come out whole. We ask for the floor, the width of the stairs at their narrowest turn and the size of the biggest piece, and our guide to measuring furniture before a flat move shows the three measurements that matter. For a one-bedroom flat our flat removals service often fits the whole move into a morning, which keeps the shared hall clear for the neighbours by lunchtime.

The old gasworks land and the new blocks

The council’s history dates New Barnet’s gasworks to 1872, when the East Barnet Gas and Water Company built them to supply the lamps in the new houses. The former gas site off Albert Road went through several rejected schemes before Barnet Council approved a scheme there in 2024 for flats in blocks of four to eight storeys. Moving into or out of one of these is a different job from the Victorian roads: the risk is not the stairs but the lift, the loading point and the building’s own rules. Managing agents in new blocks commonly want a lift booked and protected, a set move-in slot and the van at a marked loading area rather than at the kerb, so we ask for the building’s move-in rules when you book. Our notes on what to check at a new-build handover cover the snagging, the handover and what to ask the developer first.

Shops, flats and the station end

Station Road and East Barnet Road carry much of New Barnet’s shops, many with flats above them and a separate street door beside the shopfront. The station itself was first called Barnet Station, serving the whole district before the High Barnet line opened, and today it is on the Great Northern line to Moorgate and Welwyn Garden City. Its approach roads are at their busiest at the start and end of the working day, so for a flat near the station we aim to have the van loaded and away before the evening rush. When a flat over a shop needs packing as well as moving, our packing team can come the day before so the move itself is only carrying.

Houses with a drive

Some of the later houses have a front drive, and loading from your own drive is the easiest arrangement there is: no bay to book and no neighbour’s car to wait for. It works for a Luton van more often than for a 7.5-tonne lorry, which needs room to swing in and a surface that will take its weight. What we do not do is put the van across the next house’s dropped kerb or with its wheels on the pavement; Barnet Council lists both among the restrictions it enforces, and the second is banned across London. If the drive is too short or too steep, the van goes on the road and we book the space properly, as set out in the parking section below.

Call 020 3983 5199 with your EN5 address, the floor and what is in the loft for a fixed price.

Removal prices in New Barnet

Guide prices for an EN5 move. Your fixed quote includes any Barnet Council bay or dispensation fee:

Guide figures only. A full loft and garage, a top-floor flat with no lift, or two days of bays can move a New Barnet job into the next band.

Around New Barnet

The streets between the station, Lyonsdown and Oakleigh Park are covered from this page. For a move that starts or ends next door, these neighbouring areas have their own pages, and for a single wardrobe or a few boxes rather than a whole house our man and van service works the same roads by the hour.