The property is just as varied, and access is what usually moves the price here rather than the size of the load. Portsmouth is largely built on Portsea Island, among the most densely populated places in the country, where terraced streets have no drives and almost every bay is permit-controlled. Southampton's older suburbs are permit zones too, with a very large student rental sector north and east of the centre that moves on an academic calendar. Winchester's medieval core has timed vehicle access and listed frontages. Against that, Basingstoke and Andover were expanded under the London overspill agreements and laid out for vehicles, and Fareham's Western Wards, Whiteley and Chandler's Ford are modern enough that a Luton reaches the door.
We cover eight Hampshire places today: Southampton, Portsmouth, Basingstoke, Winchester, Farnborough, Fareham, Eastleigh and Andover, across the SO, PO, RG, GU and SP postcode districts. Towns where we have completed work but have not yet written a full local record — Fleet, Aldershot, Gosport, Waterlooville, Havant, Hedge End, Alton, Romsey, Totton, Lymington, Ringwood, Petersfield, Yateley and Emsworth among them — are covered from the nearest town page rather than given a page that would only repeat the county. We would rather have eight pages worth reading than twenty-five that are not.
Three practical points up front. No part of Hampshire is inside the London Ultra Low Emission Zone, so nothing we do inside the county attracts that charge; a job continuing into a London borough does enter the zone, and we allocate a compliant vehicle and show any charge in the quote rather than adding it later. Portsmouth's Clean Air Zone is Class B, which charges non-compliant buses, coaches, taxis, private hire vehicles and HGVs and does not charge vans or cars, so a domestic job in the city attracts no zone fee from us. And no contractor can tip your waste at a council household site, whatever van it arrives in — anything we clear goes to a licensed transfer station and you receive the waste transfer note for it.