Nottingham & the NG districts
Nottingham moves, handled with care
Houses, flats, student rooms and small offices, moved across the city by people who know which streets you can park on and which you cannot. We survey before we quote, and the figure you agree is the figure you pay.
- Surveyed before quoting — no figure off a phone call
- Our own crews and vans at both ends
Someone walks the route the furniture takes, and writes the access notes.
Permit arranged where the street needs one, floors and stairwell covered.
Why local knowledge matters
Nottingham moves, handled with care
A move in NG is rarely about how much there is. It is about the building, the street and the week of the year. Here is what we actually think about before a van is booked.
- 01 Lace Market conversions
- The old warehouses off Stoney Street and Broadway are beautiful and awkward in equal measure. One goods lift for the whole building, a booked loading window, cobbled setts that a sack truck hates, and a pedestrian zone that decides where the van actually stands. We sort the window with the building before the date is confirmed.
- 02 Victorian terraces up the hill
- Sherwood, Mapperley, Carrington and Forest Fields. Long narrow halls, a half-landing that has defeated a great many wardrobes, and a gradient that matters when you are carrying a sofa to a van parked forty yards down the road. We measure the turn at survey, not on the morning.
- 03 Student moves, and the last week of June
- Two universities and tens of thousands of tenancies turning over at once. Lenton, Dunkirk, Beeston and the city-centre blocks all change hands in the same few days. Halls run booked move-out slots. Book early — this is the one week in the Nottingham calendar where turning up hopefully does not work.
- 04 The Park, and gated access
- The private estate below the castle has its own one-way system, its own gates and its own rules about vehicle access. Large Victorian villas with generous rooms and, frequently, a very tight approach. Entry is arranged with the estate rather than assumed, and that takes a conversation beforehand.
- 05 Over the Trent, and match days
- West Bridgford semis usually have a drive, which makes them some of the easiest loading in the city. The exception is a home fixture at either ground — the bridges and the A60 stop being roads. We check the fixture list before we set a Saturday date, because nobody wants to spend a morning stationary on Trent Bridge.
- 06 Sandstone, cellars and caves
- Nottingham is built on sandstone and a surprising number of city properties have a cellar cut into it — steep, narrow steps and a low head height. If something has to come out of one, tell us at survey. It changes the crew and occasionally it changes the answer.
- 07 The tram, the ring road and permits
- Tram routes restrict where a vehicle can pull in along parts of Beeston, Clifton and the city centre. Much of the inner city is controlled parking. Where a street needs a suspension we apply for one and put the cones out ahead of the move; where a well-chosen loading point will do, we use that instead.
- 08 Careful handling, whatever the building
- Blanket wrap and shrink on upholstery, corner protection on anything polished, purpose-built crates for mirrors, glass and stone tops. Beds and wardrobes come apart with the fixings bagged and taped to the piece they belong to. The same standard whether it is a student room or a villa.
What we do
Six ways we move Nottingham
Whole houses and single rooms, a Lace Market office on a Sunday, a student room into storage in June, and a London flat coming up the M1. Same crew, same care, different shape of job.
- Terraces and semis
House removals
Victorian terraces in Sherwood and Mapperley, semis out in West Bridgford and Wollaton — surveyed first, packed room by room, put back the same way.
Read more - Conversions and city blocks
Flat & apartment removals
Lace Market warehouse conversions, city-centre apartment blocks and period conversions in The Park, where the lift and the concierge decide the day.
Read more - Smaller loads, carried properly
Man and van
A driver and a van for a room, a studio, a few pieces of furniture or a collection that needs carrying up rather than left in a stairwell.
Read more - City centre and Lace Market
Office & business removals
Studios, practices and small offices moved outside trading hours against a crate plan and a labelled floor plan, around city-centre loading windows.
Read more - UoN, NTU and the summer gap
Student moves
Halls to house-shares in Lenton and Beeston, single rooms, and somewhere for it all to go between one tenancy ending and the next beginning.
Read more - The M1 corridor, both ways
London to Nottingham
The route we run most outside the city — a London flat into a Nottingham house, with one crew at both ends and no depot in the middle.
Read more - Out of the country
International removals
Nottingham to France, Spain, Italy and Portugal — packed here, loaded here, down the M1 and out through the tunnel with the customs paperwork prepared before the vehicle moves.
Read more
Where we work
Nottingham & NG, district by district
We cover the city — NG1 through NG11 — rather than the county. The towns further out, Mansfield and Newark and Worksop, are somebody else's patch and we will happily say so. What follows is the city as a crew sees it.
-
City Centre & Lace Market
NG1Warehouse conversions with a single goods lift and a booked loading window, cobbled setts around Stoney Street, and a pedestrian zone that decides where a van can actually stand.
-
Hockley & Sneinton
NG1 / NG2Flats above shops, narrow service yards behind the independents, and streets where the loading restriction times matter more than the vehicle size.
-
The Park
NG7The private estate below the castle — large Victorian villas, gated access, tunnels and a one-way system. Entry has to be arranged with the estate rather than assumed.
-
West Bridgford
NG2Across Trent Bridge. Interwar and Victorian semis with drives, which makes loading easy, and a match-day traffic problem when either ground is at home.
-
Beeston & Lenton
NG9 / NG7University of Nottingham country. Student houses with short tenancy turnarounds, the tram running down the middle of Beeston, and a very busy last week of June.
-
Sherwood & Mapperley
NG5 / NG3Long Victorian terraces on a hill. Narrow halls, half-landings that defeat wardrobes, and on-street parking that fills before eight in the morning.
-
Forest Fields & Carrington
NG7 / NG5Dense terraced streets with rear entries that are sometimes an alley and sometimes blocked. A lot of our man-and-van work starts here.
-
Arnold & Carlton
NG5 / NG4Post-war semis and bungalows on the northern and eastern edges. Generally straightforward access; the ring road is the variable at either end of the day.
-
Wollaton & Beechdale
NG8Larger semis and detached houses near the park. Wide streets, room for a Luton, and the occasional long drive that needs a shuttle rather than a reverse.
-
Clifton & Wilford
NG11The estate south of the Trent plus the NTU Clifton campus. Wide roads, plentiful parking, and tram stops that occasionally restrict where a vehicle can pull in.
Moving out of the city, or into it from elsewhere? The London to Nottingham route is the one we run most, and the coverage page goes into more detail.
The van is the easy part. What you are really paying for is somebody having already worked out how the wardrobe gets down the stairs, who holds the key to the loading bay, and what happens if the keys are late.
How we think about a move · more about how we work
Beyond the NG postcodes
Removals from Nottingham into Europe
A steady handful of Nottingham moves each year do not stop at the coast — a posting to Paris, a family place near Valencia, a retirement to the Algarve. We load at your NG address, run down the M1 and round to Folkestone, and the same consignment comes off at the other end.
We also collect from London, Manchester, Birmingham, Leeds, Glasgow, Edinburgh and Bristol when a household is spread across more than one address before it leaves.
How the European moves work- Nottingham France Paris, Normandy, the Dordogne and the south — down the M1 and out through Folkestone.
- Nottingham Spain Madrid, Barcelona, Valencia and the coasts, overland through Bordeaux and Irún.
- Nottingham Italy Milan, Florence, Rome and the lakes, over the Alps or round by the Riviera.
- Nottingham Portugal Lisbon, Porto, the Silver Coast and the Algarve — the long haul via Salamanca.
Good to know
Before you ring us
The questions that come up on almost every first call about a Nottingham move.
What does a removal in Nottingham cost?
Four things decide it: how much there is, how far it is going, how hard both ends are to get in and out of, and how much packing you want us to do. Access swings it hardest in this city — a third-floor Lace Market conversion with one shared goods lift is a different job from a West Bridgford semi with a drive. That is why we survey before quoting rather than reading a number off a list.
Which parts of Nottingham do you cover?
The city and its districts — NG1 through NG11. City Centre, Lace Market, Hockley, The Park, West Bridgford, Beeston, Lenton, Sherwood, Mapperley, Forest Fields, Arnold, Carlton, Wollaton and Clifton. We do not cover Mansfield, Newark or Worksop; those are county towns and another firm serves them properly.
Can you deal with a Lace Market building?
Yes, and it is a good share of our city-centre work. Most of the converted warehouses have a single goods lift shared by the whole building, a loading window that has to be booked, and a managing agent who wants our insurance certificate first. We arrange all of that directly rather than leaving it with you.
Will you sort the parking?
Where the street needs it, we apply to the City Council for a bay suspension and put cones out ahead of the move. A lot of inner Nottingham is controlled parking and the terraced streets fill early. Some streets do not need a suspension and a well-chosen loading point does the job — we decide which at survey.
How far ahead should we book?
As far ahead as you reasonably can, and especially if you are moving at the end of a month or on a Friday. The last week of June is the single busiest stretch in this city because both universities turn over at once — if your date falls in it, book well in advance.
Do you do packing?
All of it, some of it, or just the materials dropped off. Part-packing is the usual choice: we take the kitchen, the china, the glass and the artwork, and you handle clothes and books at your own pace. Fragile and high-value pieces we would always rather pack ourselves.
Tell us about the move and we’ll take it from there.
Send both addresses, roughly how much there is, and anything you already know will be awkward. We’ll look at it properly and come back with a written quote.