Lift booked, bay ready, price agreed before we arrive.
Moving out of a tower block or a street with nowhere to park? We arrange the goods lift and loading bay with your building and check the street on a video survey. Moving day runs to time, at a price you know first.
Goods lift and loading bayArranged with your building manager
GT Removals covers house and flat removals across East London, from Shoreditch and Hackney to Stratford, Canary Wharf and Walthamstow, 7 days a week from 7am. We arrange the goods lift slot and loading bay window with your building manager. A van, driver and mover costs £90 an hour, and the clock starts at your door.
Our crews cover every East London borough. The areas below are grouped by the council that runs the parking outside your door, because each council sets its own notice and charges for a parking bay.
Hackney
removals in Shoreditch, Hoxton, Dalston removals, Hackney Central, Homerton, Hackney Wick, Clapton and Stoke Newington
Tower Hamlets
Whitechapel, Bethnal Green, Bow, Mile End, Wapping, Limehouse, Poplar, Canary Wharf and the Isle of Dogs
Newham
Stratford, Canning Town, Plaistow, Forest Gate, East Ham and Silvertown
Waltham Forest
Walthamstow, Leyton and Leytonstone
Further east
Ilford, Barking and Romford
Your street not listed? Call or WhatsApp (opens WhatsApp) 020 3983 5849 with the postcode.
Stoke Newington also sits with our removals across North London, and our crews handle removals across South London too. See all the areas we cover across London.
A removal in East London with GT Removals costs £90 an hour for a Transit van with a driver and one mover. A Luton van, the larger box van, costs £100 an hour with the same crew. A second mover brings those rates to £110 and £120 an hour. If you only need the van and a driver, it is £50 an hour for a Transit or £75 for a Luton.
Transit van
Luton vanthe larger box van
Every booking has a one-hour minimum, and the clock starts when the crew reaches your door, with no distance fee.
Evening work between 7pm and 8am adds £10 an hour with a 1.5-hour minimum, and weekend moves also carry a 1.5-hour minimum.
Our vans meet the Ultra Low Emission Zone (ULEZ) standard.
Fixed house move quotes include the Congestion Charge where it applies, and hourly bookings pay it on top. Our guide explains when the Congestion Charge applies to a move.
Film your rooms, the lift and the street outside, and most quotes come back within a few hours.
Free quote, with no obligation to book.
New-build towers around Canary Wharf, Stratford and Shoreditch need a goods lift slot and a loading bay window booked in advance, and we arrange both with your building manager.
A goods lift is the larger service lift that movers use. A loading bay is the building's own place for vans to stop and unload.
A building manager or concierge may control service lifts, loading bays, entry times and service doors, so the lift slot often sets the timetable for the whole move. If your building asks movers for anything else, we do what is required. A flat with stairs, a long carry, bulky furniture or tight building rules may suit three movers. Read about when a third mover helps in a block with tight rules.
A video survey is a short video call or recording of your rooms, lift and street, which we use to price your move before the day.
It runs on WhatsApp, Zoom or FaceTime. See the lift, route and parking checks on a video survey.
Film the rooms and the route.
Show the furniture, the stairs, the lift door, the space inside the lift and the route to it.
Show the street outside.
Point the camera at the bays, yellow lines, red lines, gates or loading area where the van could stop.
Get a fixed written quote.
It covers the agreed scope of the move, and most quotes come back within a few hours.
We line up the lift and the bay.
We arrange the lift slot and loading bay with your building manager, and on the day the clock starts at your door.
A parking suspension reserves the council bays outside your home for the removal van, and in East London each council sets its own notice and charges. You apply in your own name, as the person moving home, and we check the street on your video survey.
Tower Hamlets
7 working daysAllow at least seven working days. For residents moving house, there is no bay charge for up to two bays for one day (opens in a new tab), though a service charge still applies.
Hackney
7 working daysApply at least 7 working days ahead. Bays cost £44 a day, and Hackney discounts the bay fee for up to 3 bays on the first day of a home move (opens in a new tab).
Newham
10 working daysApply at least 10 working days ahead. Residents pay £23 a bay each day plus a £25 admin fee, for up to three spaces.
Waltham Forest
£120 first dayDomestic removals pay the £120 application fee only, for the first day.
Where there is no bay to suspend, Tower Hamlets also offers a dispensation, which lets a vehicle wait or load on a single yellow line.
Red routes are main roads marked with red lines, such as the A13 Commercial Road in Tower Hamlets (opens in a new tab). Transport for London (TfL) runs them, so a council suspension does not cover them. Hackney Council says it does not issue suspensions for red routes. TfL can grant a dispensation, its permission to stop, at £48 per day per vehicle (opens in a new tab). Processing takes at least 6 working days, counting the day TfL receives the request. TfL grants red line dispensations only in exceptional circumstances, and its own examples include moving heavy items. Your video survey checks the kerb before you fix the date.
GT Removals packs, stores and moves offices as well as handling house removals in East London, with our own employed team.
Our crews can box up all or part of your home before loading, and take furniture apart and put it back together. If there is a gap between moving out and moving in, we can store your belongings too. Office moves can run at weekends, and we carry out an on-site inspection at your office once you agree the price. For smaller loads, our man and van service uses the same published hourly rates.
GT Removals has moved London homes since 2009 and has completed more than 10,000 moves. Our 200+ Google reviews average 4.9. One customer praised the crew for "arriving on time on the day", and another wrote, "Everything was moved so efficiently and quickly".
Yes. GT Removals works 7 days a week from 7am, so a Saturday or Sunday move in East London is fine, and the same hourly rates apply.
Yes. Every move with GT Removals is insured, from a single item to a full house.
Yes. We move people from East London to anywhere in the UK, and we make regular moves to Paris, Berlin, Amsterdam and Brussels. Each move gets its own written quote.
In an East London block, the building's lift slot and the council's notice for the bay set your first possible moving date, more than a free van does.
Ask your building manager how lift bookings work and whether the loading bay needs booking. Then count back the notice period for your council from the list above, and fix your date after that. Once those dates are set, we fit the crew to your lift slot, so the van, the lift and the bay line up on the same morning.
Send both addresses and a short video of your lift and the street outside. One customer was impressed with how the crew "carefully moved my fragile items".
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