Kensington and Chelsea · SW7 · Green waste removal
Same-week slots · Fully insured · Local South Kensington fitters · Fixed written pricesWe provide green waste removal in South Kensington SW7 for houses and flats around The Victoria and Albert Museum. From £55, quoted in writing before the visit, with two crew and a Luton on most garden clearances; three crew and a tipper where the load is mainly soil, turf or rubble and weight rather than volume decides the run Units are built in the room they live in, then wall-anchored where they need it.
Overview
This page prices green waste removal for South Kensington SW7 specifically: period conversion stock, 54% privately rented and 2,840 households in total. Work starts at £55, fixed in writing, with parking and Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea permit rules costed before an insured fitter travels.
How it works
Step 1
Roughly how many cubic yards, whether it is soft green waste or heavy soil and turf, and whether there is rear access or everything has to go through the house.
Step 2
Green waste is priced by volume and soil or rubble by weight, so the quote separates the two rather than guessing at one blended rate.
Step 3
Branches and hedge cuttings cut down to fit the van; loose material bagged so nothing spills through a hallway or side return on the way out.
Step 4
Green waste, soil and any rubble kept apart in the van, because the green waste site and the inert tip are two different gate fees.
Step 5
Weighed in at a licensed green waste or inert site and the transfer note emailed the same day.
Why choose us
Registered waste carrier working to duty-of-care rules for green and inert waste. Soft green waste is taken to a composting or green waste treatment site, soil and turf to inert recycling, and any invasive plant material identified on site is routed to a licensed consignment facility rather than mixed with standard garden waste.
Two crew and a Luton on most garden clearances; three crew and a tipper where the load is mainly soil, turf or rubble and weight rather than volume decides the run. Museum-visitor traffic, single-lane service roads and lift-free upper floors in older conversions.
Same-week across every borough, with weekend availability through spring and summer when demand for a one-off garden clearance is highest. South Kensington (Circle, District, Piccadilly) is the nearest station, so a SW7 visit rarely needs a whole morning set aside.
We expect with solid brick on the party and external walls, over lath and plaster over timber studs, and with 45% one-person households in South Kensington, one adult is usually the only pair of hands on site in SW7, and we carry the anchors, through-fixings and long bits that match. The mistake we spend most time undoing here is a plasterboard plug spun into lime plaster in SW7, which crumbles the key and drops the panel, a median age of 37 in this neighbourhood shapes what gets ordered here.
Fixed prices
| Job | From | Typical time | What sets the price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Grass cuttings and light green waste, per cubic yard | £55 | By volume | Light and bulky rather than heavy, so it is priced on the space it takes in the van, not its weight. |
| Hedge cuttings and branches, per cubic yard | £65 | By volume | Woody material needs to be cut down to fit before loading, which adds labour over a straight bag-and-carry. |
| Quarter-load mixed garden waste | £120 | 45–60 min | A typical small London garden clearance, priced on volume plus the green waste site's gate fee. |
| Half-load garden waste | £210 | 1–2 hrs | Covers a full rear garden clear where there is no side access and everything has to come out through the house. |
| Full Luton load of garden waste | £360 | 2–3 hrs | Full van, two crew and the site fee, typical after years of growth are tackled in one visit rather than several bin cycles. |
| Soil, turf and rubble, per cubic yard | £85 | By volume | These are weighed rather than measured by volume — a yard of wet turf or soil can weigh several times the same yard of hedge cuttings. |
Grass cuttings and light green waste, per cubic yard
£55 · By volume
Light and bulky rather than heavy, so it is priced on the space it takes in the van, not its weight.
Hedge cuttings and branches, per cubic yard
£65 · By volume
Woody material needs to be cut down to fit before loading, which adds labour over a straight bag-and-carry.
Quarter-load mixed garden waste
£120 · 45–60 min
A typical small London garden clearance, priced on volume plus the green waste site's gate fee.
Half-load garden waste
£210 · 1–2 hrs
Covers a full rear garden clear where there is no side access and everything has to come out through the house.
Full Luton load of garden waste
£360 · 2–3 hrs
Full van, two crew and the site fee, typical after years of growth are tackled in one visit rather than several bin cycles.
Soil, turf and rubble, per cubic yard
£85 · By volume
These are weighed rather than measured by volume — a yard of wet turf or soil can weigh several times the same yard of hedge cuttings.
Domestic prices are the total you pay; landlord, agent and landscaper invoices are plus VAT at 20%. Cutting material down to load size, carrying through the house where there is no rear access and the green waste site fee are included. Where a bay suspension, permit, ULEZ or the Congestion Charge applies it is itemised in the written quote.
Scope
The guys arrived prompt at 9 am . Sorry I’m rubbish at names but I remember the one guys initials were AB . He really worked hard . Both guys were very polite and were happy to pop back up the stairs to finish dusting the bedrooms surfaces that were missed . Not one moan… Read in full →
The cleaners Constantin and arrived in time and never stopped until the work was completed to the best of their ability. I would recommend a more upgraded carpet cleaner as I was hoping for a hot steam cleaner to penetrate areas or heavy foot traffic on the carpet. They never gave up until the look… Read in full →
We had a good experience with this company for our move from London to Spain. Everything went well. They also helped us with our move out clean.
Read all 12 Rubbish Removal reviews →
Quoted verbatim from reviews customers left on our public Google and Trustpilot profiles. Nothing is edited, shortened beyond the link above, or written by us.
Coverage
Also in this area
Single items, part-loads, garden waste and office strip-outs across the borough.
Mixed household and bulky waste taken by the load with a transfer note the same day.
Sofas, wardrobes, tables and old white goods collected per item, dismantling included.
Overgrown beds, hedges and years of accumulated green waste cleared and taken away.
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 South Kensington
2,840 households sit inside the SW7 neighbourhood covering South Kensington. The build is period conversion, the tenure profile renter-heavy, and 86% of those homes are flats.
The renter-heavy mix here (38% owned, 54% privately rented) means a SW7 diary swings between short-notice tenancy deadlines and appointments set a fortnight out.
Expect with solid brick on the party and external walls, over lath and plaster over timber studs, and with 45% one-person households in South Kensington, one adult is usually the only pair of hands on site behind the plaster in SW7. That is why fixings are picked in the room rather than off a van shelf, and why a plasterboard plug spun into lime plaster in SW7, which crumbles the key and drops the panel, a median age of 37 in this neighbourhood shapes what gets ordered here is the fault we are called back to undo.
Museum quarter, French lycée and cream-stucco crescents. That character decides the practical detail of green waste removal here far more than the borough boundary does. South Kensington sits inside the Congestion Charge zone as well as ULEZ, so both are itemised on the quote rather than absorbed into an hourly rate.
On access, museum-visitor traffic, single-lane service roads and lift-free upper floors in older conversions — one reason two crew and a Luton on most garden clearances; three crew and a tipper where the load is mainly soil, turf or rubble and weight rather than volume decides the run. Fitters travelling in use South Kensington (Circle, District, Piccadilly).
Area at a glance
Who lives in South Kensington and what they live in decides how green waste removal is quoted and how long a visit takes. These are the published Census 2021 figures for the South Kensington neighbourhood itself — not Kensington and Chelsea-wide averages, and not estimates.
5,764
Residents
South Kensington neighbourhood, Census 2021
2,840
Households
Median age 36.5
Flats vs houses
Residents by sex
Single-person households
45.3%
Privately rented
53.7%
Source: ONS Census 2021 via Nomis (TS008, TS041, TS007A, TS044, TS054, TS003), MSOA geography. Figures cover the ONS neighbourhood South Kensington (E02000592) — the published geography that covers South Kensington, not the whole borough. Neighbourhood names: House of Commons Library MSOA Names (OGL). Coordinates for the SW7 district: 51.4963, -0.1770 — Outward postcode centroid, postcodes.io (Ordnance Survey Open Data).
Grass cuttings and light green waste, per cubic yard starts at £55 in South Kensington on the streets near The Victoria and Albert Museum, with 54% of SW7 homes being privately rented — and Kensington and Chelsea parking rules in play, and every job is quoted as a fixed written price before a fitter is booked. Volume for soft green waste, weight for soil and rubble, and access across SW7. A rear garden with no side return means every barrow load comes out through the house on this side of Kensington and Chelsea, with 38% owner-occupation locally — and 14% of South Kensington homes being houses, which is the single biggest driver of price in inner London terraces.
Yes — IKEA, Argos, Wayfair, Made and independent brands are all built to the manufacturer's instructions on the South Kensington rounds, with 45% one-person households here. We are independent of every retailer; the names simply describe what we assemble in South Kensington most weeks across SW7, with 2,840 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 on SW7 jobs, with 54% of SW7 homes being privately rented.
That is exactly why we build in the room it will live in on this side of Kensington and Chelsea. With 86% of South Kensington homes being flats, narrow hallways and tight turns are the norm across SW7, with 8% social-rented stock nearby — and Kensington and Chelsea parking rules in play, so anything that will not pass a doorway once assembled is built where it stands.
Museum-visitor traffic, single-lane service roads and lift-free upper floors in older conversions on this side of Kensington and Chelsea. Where a permit or a suspended bay is needed in Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea it is itemised on the quote before the visit, never added afterwards on SW7 jobs — and this being Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea territory, with 2,840 households on this patch.
Registered waste carrier working to duty-of-care rules for green and inert waste on this side of Kensington and Chelsea. Soft green waste is taken to a composting or green waste treatment site, soil and turf to inert recycling across SW7, with 45% one-person households here — and 8% social-rented stock nearby, and any invasive plant material identified on site is routed to a licensed consignment facility rather than mixed with standard garden waste. That paperwork is what most Kensington and Chelsea letting agents and managing agents ask for before work starts in a leasehold flat on the streets near The Victoria and Albert Museum, with 2,840 households on this patch.
Japanese knotweed and other invasive plant material, which needs a licensed consignment route rather than standard green waste disposal; Tree felling and stump grinding above hedge height, which needs a qualified arborist rather than a clearance crew; Chemical-treated timber, decking oil tins and weedkiller containers on Kensington and Chelsea bookings — and The Victoria and Albert Museum a few streets away, with a median age of 37 in this neighbourhood, which are hazardous waste and need a specialist carrier; Pond water, fish and livestock waste, which fall outside standard green waste licensing. Anything outside that scope is quoted separately so the South Kensington SW7 price you agree is the price you pay on the South Kensington rounds, with 2,840 households on this patch.
Read next
Handyman
Hourly rates, half-day jobs and the questions worth asking before booking.
Assembly
Which builds are a two-hour job and which reliably eat a weekend.
Assembly
Wardrobes, beds and kitchen units built and levelled the same day.
Free quote · 1-hour reply
Two ways to go: price it yourself on the quote page, or pick a slot on the live booking calendar. South Kensington SW7 jobs are confirmed in writing before anyone travels, and the same crew covers the rest of kensington and chelsea.
No deposit is taken until the price and slot are confirmed in writing.
