E, IG and RM postcodes, from Bethnal Green out to Ilford, Barking and Romford — priced online in 60 seconds.
East London runs from Bethnal Green out to Romford, and the E, IG and RM postcodes between them cover ground that changes character every couple of miles. The terraces of Walthamstow, Leyton and Bethnal Green were built narrow and deep, with front doors almost on the pavement and staircases that turn twice before the first landing, and a great many were long ago divided into two flats, one stacked above the other, so a communal entrance sits between the front room and the kerb. Two miles away Stratford is the opposite job: East Village, Chobham Manor and the blocks around the station are lift-and-loading-bay moves, arranged with the building days ahead rather than settled on the doorstep. Hackney sits between the two, with converted Victorian houses on streets that are permit-controlled end to end. The crew and the van are sized for whichever of those you actually live in, because a third-floor conversion off Francis Road and a two-bed with a working goods lift are not the same day's work, and pricing them alike would only mean overcharging one of you.
What makes an East London move a planning job rather than a driving job is how many councils these postcodes cross. Waltham Forest, Hackney, Tower Hamlets and Newham inside the E codes, Redbridge and Barking and Dagenham through IG, Havering out into RM — each runs its own controlled parking zones and its own bay-suspension process, each wants the application in days before the van arrives, and none of them can be sorted out on the morning. We check which council the address falls under before we agree a start time. On top of that, the low-traffic streets around Walthamstow Village are filtered with bollards and planters, so the road on the map is not always a road the van can take; Columbia Road in Bethnal Green belongs to the flower market on Sunday mornings; and the street market on Walthamstow High Street takes the obvious loading positions out of use on market days.
Getting out is the straightforward part. The A12 and the A406 North Circular handle anything heading north or west, the A13 runs east through Barking and Dagenham towards the A127 and the M25, and the Victoria, Central and Elizabeth lines keep the local chains moving quickly — which is why both ends of a move so often want the same Saturday. Whether you are leaving a terrace in E10 or a flat in E15, we settle the borough, the bay and the stairs before the day rather than on it.
We move throughout East London, not only the areas with a guide above. These are the districts we work in most often.
From the van size, the number of movers, the hours the job realistically takes, the floors at each address and the distance between them. That is why the quote form wants both actual addresses rather than pricing by postcode district — a ground-floor flat in E2 and a fourth-floor conversion in E17 are different jobs, and the price on screen is the whole job either way.
Yes. The pages linked from here are the districts we write about in detail, and the "Also covered" list on this page names more of them, but neither is a boundary — we work right across the E, IG and RM codes, from the Tower Hamlets end out through Newham and Redbridge to Barking, Dagenham and Romford. Put the actual addresses into the quote form and the price is built from the real route wherever you are starting from.
We do, and it starts with which council you are in. Waltham Forest, Hackney, Tower Hamlets, Newham, Redbridge and Havering each run their own suspension process with its own lead time, so we fix the van position when the date is booked instead of improvising on the morning. Where no suspension is possible, we know the turnings that still give a workable loading window.
Then we plan for it and say so at the start. Converted terraces across E5, E9 and E10 mean a shared hallway and several flights before the first box reaches the van, and on some Bethnal Green estates the nearest legal stopping point is a fair distance from the door. Tell us the floor and the access at both ends and that time goes into the quote rather than appearing on the day.
Enter your two addresses and you will have a price straight away — for any East London postcode, listed here or not.
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