One room, a small van and a date that fits the end of term — priced online in 60 seconds, anywhere in the E codes.
East London is where the students are, and the campuses are spread far enough apart that the E codes end up housing all of them. Queen Mary sits beside the Regent's Canal at Mile End, the University of East London has Stratford and Docklands, Loughborough University London teaches from Here East on the Olympic Park, and Birkbeck has its own building a couple of minutes from Stratford station. A room in E1, E2, E8, E9, E10, E15 or E17 puts you within reach of one of them without paying central London rent for the privilege. What that means for us is that most of our East London work in June and September is not a household at all. It is one room — a bed frame, a desk, a chair, a bike, a clothes rail and somewhere between eight and twenty boxes — which fits a small van with space left over. We price it for that van and the hour or two it honestly takes, not as a scaled-down version of a full house removal.
Two dates run the whole year here. Hall contracts and the shared tenancies built around them mostly end in June, which empties Mile End, Stratford and the terraces around them inside a fortnight, and the last two weeks of September fill them again as new tenants arrive before term starts. The problem with halls is that everybody's fortnight is the same fortnight: the loading bay becomes a queue, the lift usually has to be booked through the accommodation office, and turning up without a slot means waiting your turn behind three other move-outs. Tell us the bay or lift time you have been given and we build the arrival around it. The gap between June and September is its own puzzle — a tenancy that ends long before the next one starts leaves your things with nowhere to be, and summer storage is something we can arrange rather than something you solve by posting boxes home.
Parking is a different problem when the job is one room rather than a whole house. The van may only need forty minutes at the kerb, but Tower Hamlets, Hackney, Newham and Waltham Forest control their residential streets regardless of how short your visit is, and a student tenant is rarely the person holding the permit. Where a bay suspension is worth booking we book it, and where it is not, we know which turnings give a workable loading window. Columbia Road belongs to the flower market on Sunday, Roman Road is crowded on its market days, and Cambridge Heath Road, Bethnal Green Road and Mare Street carry bus lanes where a van cannot wait at all. The new blocks around Stratford High Street and East Village are the opposite kind of job: a service lift, a designated bay and a concierge to clear, even for a single room. And because these houses are let room by room, we are usually moving one tenant while the rest stay put — so we keep the communal hallway clear, carry only what is yours, and get out without making the day an event for everyone else.
Rooms come out of streets all over East London, not only the districts with a guide. These are the others we load from most in June and September.
Yes, and across the E codes it is routine work for us. Rooms in these houses are let individually, so we take only your belongings, work around whatever is left in the communal hallway, and keep the trips in and out short enough that the rest of the house barely notices the van outside.
Weeks, not days. Hall contracts and the tenancies around them end together in June, and the last fortnight of September brings the same rush in reverse as new shares form before term. Both peaks fill early and the Saturdays go first, so take a slot as soon as your tenancy dates are settled.
Yes, and we plan around them instead of hoping. Accommodation offices usually hand out a lift slot and a bay time, and the new blocks around Stratford High Street and East Village add a concierge to clear as well. Give us the slot you have been given and the van arrives to fit it rather than joining the back of the queue.
Yes. A summer gap between two tenancies is exactly what our storage is for, whether you are going home, going abroad or simply have nowhere to put a room for three months. Ask about it when you book, or get in touch first, and a manager will confirm the space and the collection and delivery dates.
Yes — right across the E codes. Mile End, Whitechapel, Bow, Leyton, Walthamstow, Hackney Wick, Poplar and Shoreditch are all regular student work for us, they simply do not each have a guide of their own. Put the two real addresses into the form and the quote follows the actual route, wherever the room is.
Tell us the room you are leaving and where it is going — halls, a new share, or home for the summer — and the small-van price appears straight away, anywhere in East London.
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