Stratford has become a real student hub, with the University of East London's Stratford campus, Loughborough University London at Here East on the Olympic Park and Birkbeck's Stratford building all drawing renters into E15. That mix means a lot of our Stratford moves are single rooms and shared flats rather than family houses. The job is often a room in a new-build apartment share around Stratford High Street or East Village, or a room in a Victorian house-share in Maryland, packed into boxes for a transit van. We price it that way — for the small load and the couple of hours it takes — so a student move is never charged like a whole-house job with a crew and lorry you don't need.

The student calendar peaks hard here. Late June empties shared tenancies and university rooms together, and September fills them again as new tenants arrive for term, both booking out fast on the popular Saturdays. New-build shares add a twist: even a single room can mean booking the service lift and a loading bay and clearing the move with a concierge, so we sort that in advance rather than turning up to a locked bay.

Parking around Stratford is dominated by Westfield and station traffic, which is heavy for most of the day, so we time arrival to miss the worst and load from the designated development bays or the quieter Maryland side streets. In shared houses we move only your room's belongings, working around housemates who aren't moving, and because rooms here are usually let individually we're happy with part-loads where just one tenant is leaving mid-tenancy. We confirm the booked lift slot with the building beforehand so the concierge lets the van in without a wasted trip. The one huge advantage of Stratford is transport — the Central, Jubilee, DLR, Elizabeth line and Overground interchange puts students minutes from campus and central London. We keep the whole thing cheap, quick and fully insured.