Lewisham · SE12 · Garden clearance
Same-week slots · Fully insured · Local Lee fitters · Fixed written pricesGarden clearance in Lee SE12, Lewisham, from £120. Manor House library, Lee Green's shops and streets of interwar houses, which is why our SE12 quotes account for driveways on many streets; Lee High Road is a red route with short bays. You get a fixed price in writing, an insured fitter and a tidy finish.
Overview
Booked mostly by owner-occupier-led households around Lee, garden clearance here covers supply-free fitting from £120. With 39% of Lee's 6,151 homes in flats, lift access and stair carries in SE12 shape the slot length we hold.
How it works
Step 1
A couple of photographs is usually enough to price a London garden accurately.
Step 2
Hallway sheeted where the only way out is through the house — the norm in a terrace.
Step 3
Cut back to the agreed line, bagged as we go so nothing is left piled on the patio.
Step 4
Green waste for composting, timber and hard landscaping separated for the right facility.
Step 5
Paths and hallway swept, transfer note handed over, before-and-after photos on request.
Why choose us
We expect solid London stock brick in Lee, some of it dry-lined during a later refurbishment — and with 27% one-person households in Lee, one adult is usually the only pair of hands on site in SE12, and we carry the anchors, through-fixings and long bits that match. The mistake we spend most time undoing here is in SE12, fixings landing in soft lime mortar joints instead of the brick body — a median age of 38 in this neighbourhood shapes what gets ordered here.
Registered waste carrier; green waste goes to a composting facility and every load leaves with a transfer note in your name.
Two crew and a Luton or tipper; three where everything has to be carried through a hallway. Driveways on many streets; Lee High Road is a red route with short bays.
Usually bookable within 48 hours outside of March to June, when garden work books out a week ahead. Lee (Southeastern) is the nearest station, so a SE12 visit rarely needs a whole morning set aside.
Fixed prices
| Job | From | Typical time | What sets the price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small courtyard or balcony tidy | £120 | 1–2 hrs | A quarter-load of green waste, hand-carried through the house because most London terraces have no side return. |
| Half-load green waste | £210 | 2–3 hrs | Prunings, turf and pots, taken to a composting site rather than a general transfer station. |
| Full Luton load | £390 | 3–5 hrs | An overgrown rear garden cut back and cleared, including the bags that have been by the back door since spring. |
| Shed or greenhouse dismantle and remove | £180 | 2 hrs | Dismantled panel by panel; glass is wrapped and separated because it cannot go in with green waste. |
| Decking, fencing or hard landscaping removal | £320 | 4 hrs+ | Treated timber and concrete are charged at a different rate than green waste, so it is priced separately. |
Small courtyard or balcony tidy
£120 · 1–2 hrs
A quarter-load of green waste, hand-carried through the house because most London terraces have no side return.
Half-load green waste
£210 · 2–3 hrs
Prunings, turf and pots, taken to a composting site rather than a general transfer station.
Full Luton load
£390 · 3–5 hrs
An overgrown rear garden cut back and cleared, including the bags that have been by the back door since spring.
Shed or greenhouse dismantle and remove
£180 · 2 hrs
Dismantled panel by panel; glass is wrapped and separated because it cannot go in with green waste.
Decking, fencing or hard landscaping removal
£320 · 4 hrs+
Treated timber and concrete are charged at a different rate than green waste, so it is priced separately.
Domestic prices are the total you pay; landlord and agent invoices are plus VAT. Green waste is separated and composted where the load allows, and mixed loads are priced on the heavier stream rather than averaged.
Scope
This was my second job for Hello services and I was delighted to have Adam and Sultan back again. I had furniture assembly and clearance work to be done, and again it was done very professionally to a very high standard, and with absolute politeness at all times. They did an excellent job yet again… Read in full →
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Coverage
Also in this area
Whole-flat clears, probate and end-of-tenancy strip-outs, sorted room by room.
Desks, chairs, racking and IT stripped out of a let unit with WEEE evidence.
Single items, builders' waste and part-loads across the borough.
Front paths, side returns and communal walkways cleaned without lifting loose flags.
Natural stone patios and timber or composite decking cleaned at the right pressure for each.
Sheds, bases and outdoor storage built square, levelled and weather-fixed.
Working in Lee
The SE12 stock around The Manor House and its gardens is mainly Victorian. ONS records 39% flats, 60% houses and 6,151 households in Lee.
22% of households rent privately and 60% own, which is why garden clearance demand here peaks around tenancy changeovers and completion dates.
Walls are solid London stock brick in Lee, some of it dry-lined during a later refurbishment — and with 27% one-person households in Lee, one adult is usually the only pair of hands on site, so the fixing that matters in Lee is chosen on site — the usual failure here is in SE12, fixings landing in soft lime mortar joints instead of the brick body — a median age of 38 in this neighbourhood shapes what gets ordered here.
Two streets can behave very differently in Lee: manor House library, Lee Green's shops and streets of interwar houses. The quote reflects the street the job is actually on. Lee is outside the Congestion Charge zone but inside ULEZ; our vehicles are compliant, so nothing is added for it.
Driveways on many streets; Lee High Road is a red route with short bays. Nearest station is Lee (Southeastern), and two crew and a Luton or tipper; three where everything has to be carried through a hallway.
Area at a glance
Who lives in Lee and what they live in decides how garden clearance is quoted and how long a visit takes. These are the published Census 2021 figures for the Grove Park & Lee South and Lee neighbourhood itself — not Lewisham-wide averages, and not estimates.
15,387
Residents
Grove Park & Lee South and Lee neighbourhood, Census 2021
6,151
Households
Median age 37.6
Flats vs houses
Residents by sex
Single-person households
27.4%
Privately rented
21.6%
Source: ONS Census 2021 via Nomis (TS008, TS041, TS007A, TS044, TS054, TS003), MSOA geography. Figures cover the ONS neighbourhoods Grove Park & Lee South, Lee (E02000668, E02000675) — the published geography that covers Lee, not the whole borough. Neighbourhood names: House of Commons Library MSOA Names (OGL). Coordinates for the SE12 district: 51.4445, 0.0198 — Outward postcode centroid, postcodes.io (Ordnance Survey Open Data).
Small courtyard or balcony tidy starts at £120 in Lee on this side of Lewisham, with 39% of homes here being flats, and every job is quoted as a fixed written price before a fitter is booked. Volume and the carry distance set the price. A garden with rear access is materially cheaper than an identical garden reached only through the living room around Lee (Southeastern), with 27% one-person households here.
Yes — IKEA, Argos, Wayfair, Made and independent brands are all built to the manufacturer's instructions in Lee, with a median age of 38 in this neighbourhood. We are independent of every retailer; the names simply describe what we assemble in Lee most weeks on this side of Lewisham, with 6,151 households on this patch.
5–2 hours. Sliding-door and corner wardrobes take two to four times as long because the tracks have to be dead level around Lee (Southeastern), with 60% of Lee homes being houses.
That is exactly why we build in the room it will live in on the Lee rounds. With 39% of Lee homes being flats, narrow hallways and tight turns are the norm for Lee (SE12) addresses, with 60% owner-occupation locally, so anything that will not pass a doorway once assembled is built where it stands.
Registered waste carrier; green waste goes to a composting facility and every load leaves with a transfer note in your name on this side of Lewisham, with The Manor House and its gardens a few streets away. That paperwork is what most Lewisham letting agents and managing agents ask for before work starts in a leasehold flat across SE12, with 60% of Lee homes being houses.
Tree surgery, felling and anything requiring a chainsaw ticket or a TPO check; Japanese knotweed on Lewisham bookings — and 27% one-person households here, with 60% of Lee homes being houses, which is controlled waste and needs a specialist contractor; Ongoing garden maintenance or planting; Digging out foundations, ponds or concrete bases beyond surface removal. Anything outside that scope is quoted separately so the Lee SE12 price you agree is the price you pay in Lee, with Lewisham parking rules in play.
All three. With 22% of Lee privately rented and 60% owner-occupied, roughly half the SE12 diary is agent- or landlord-instructed and invoiced separately from the person at the door around Lee (Southeastern), with 18% social-rented stock nearby.
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Two ways to go: price it yourself on the quote page, or pick a slot on the live booking calendar. Lee SE12 jobs are confirmed in writing before anyone travels, and the same crew covers the rest of lewisham.
No deposit is taken until the price and slot are confirmed in writing.
