Kensington and Chelsea · W11 · Moving van hire
Same-week slots · Fully insured · Local Notting Hill fitters · Fixed written pricesWe provide moving van hire in Notting Hill W11 for houses and flats around Portobello Road Market. From £38, quoted in writing before the visit, with one driver as standard on all three van sizes, with a second loader added by the hour where stairs, a lift booking or heavy furniture make a solo load impractical Doorframes and stair edges are protected with blankets before large items are carried through.
Overview
This page prices moving van hire for Notting Hill W11 specifically: mixed-era stock, 43% privately rented and 9,720 households in total. Work starts at £38, 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 rooms or items, and whether there are stairs at either end. That is enough to recommend a van size and a realistic hour count.
Step 2
Van size, minimum hours and any second loader shown as separate lines, plus ULEZ, Congestion Charge or a permit where the postcode needs one.
Step 3
The driver loads and straps the van themselves; a second loader, if booked, works alongside them from the same start time.
Step 4
Furniture and boxes carried in at the new address in the same order they came out, so nothing sits blocking a hallway.
Step 5
Billing runs to the minute past the minimum booking, with no rounding up to a full extra hour for a few minutes over.
Why choose us
Same-day and next-day slots are common outside weekend peaks; weekend bookings are best made two to three days ahead in the busier boroughs. Notting Hill Gate (Central, Circle, District) is the nearest station, so a W11 visit rarely needs a whole morning set aside.
We expect lath and plaster over timber studs in W11, with solid brick on the party and external walls, measured on the walk in from Notting Hill Gate (Central, Circle, District) rather than assumed from a map in W11, and we carry the anchors, through-fixings and long bits that match. The mistake we spend most time undoing here is which crumbles the key and drops the panel — and a plasterboard plug spun into lime plaster, a median age of 39 in this neighbourhood shapes what gets ordered here.
Goods-in-transit and public liability cover apply to every booking. Drivers are DBS-checked where a building requires it, and the vehicle's ULEZ and Congestion Charge compliance is confirmed before the job is booked.
One driver as standard on all three van sizes, with a second loader added by the hour where stairs, a lift booking or heavy furniture make a solo load impractical. Carnival weekend closures, resident bays all week and communal gardens with no vehicle access.
Fixed prices
| Job | From | Typical time | What sets the price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small van and driver, per hour | £38 | Min. 2 hrs | A short wheelbase van fits a handful of boxes and small furniture — the lowest hourly rate because one driver loads alone. |
| LWB Transit-class van and driver, per hour | £48 | Min. 2 hrs | A long-wheelbase van takes a one-bed flat's furniture in a single trip, which is why it is the rate most bookings land on. |
| Luton with tail-lift and driver, per hour | £58 | Min. 2 hrs | The tail-lift removes the need to carry a washing machine or wardrobe down steps by hand, and the box body takes a two-bed load without a second run. |
| Second loader, per hour | £22 | Per hour worked | Optional labour on top of any van size — the driver alone can load light items, but wardrobes, sofas and stairs need a second pair of hands. |
| Each additional hour, any van | Same as base rate | 60 min | No new call-out charge for running over — the clock simply continues at the booked hourly rate. |
| Return trip to a second address same day | £25 | Per trip | Covers the extra mileage and time where a job needs a tip run, a storage drop or a second collection address. |
Small van and driver, per hour
£38 · Min. 2 hrs
A short wheelbase van fits a handful of boxes and small furniture — the lowest hourly rate because one driver loads alone.
LWB Transit-class van and driver, per hour
£48 · Min. 2 hrs
A long-wheelbase van takes a one-bed flat's furniture in a single trip, which is why it is the rate most bookings land on.
Luton with tail-lift and driver, per hour
£58 · Min. 2 hrs
The tail-lift removes the need to carry a washing machine or wardrobe down steps by hand, and the box body takes a two-bed load without a second run.
Second loader, per hour
£22 · Per hour worked
Optional labour on top of any van size — the driver alone can load light items, but wardrobes, sofas and stairs need a second pair of hands.
Each additional hour, any van
Same as base rate · 60 min
No new call-out charge for running over — the clock simply continues at the booked hourly rate.
Return trip to a second address same day
£25 · Per trip
Covers the extra mileage and time where a job needs a tip run, a storage drop or a second collection address.
Domestic prices are the total you pay; landlord, business and letting-agent invoices are plus VAT at 20%. The driver loading their own van is included in the hourly rate; a second loader is booked separately where the job needs stairs or heavy furniture carried. Where a bay suspension, permit, ULEZ or the Congestion Charge applies it is itemised in the written quote before the van is booked, never added afterwards.
Scope
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Coverage
Also in this area
Per-job pricing for a single load or a small flat move, not an hourly van hire.
Whole-property moves quoted as one fixed price from a video survey.
Desks, IT and storage moved out of hours with a fixed reinstatement date.
Matched with a crew that already works your borough's streets and blocks.
Standard crews are two people with a 3.5-tonne Luton; bigger clears run two vans or return the same day rather than overfilling.
Sofas, beds and wardrobes taken away and reused or recycled wherever they still can be.
Working in Notting Hill
In Notting Hill (W11) the split is 75% flats to 25% houses over 9,720 households, and the stock is mixed-era.
Because 43% of Notting Hill is privately rented and 15% socially rented, a lot of W11 work is agreed with a landlord or managing agent rather than the person opening the door.
Walls are lath and plaster over timber studs in W11, with solid brick on the party and external walls, measured on the walk in from Notting Hill Gate (Central, Circle, District) rather than assumed from a map, so the fixing that matters in Notting Hill is chosen on site — the usual failure here is which crumbles the key and drops the panel — and a plasterboard plug spun into lime plaster, a median age of 39 in this neighbourhood shapes what gets ordered here.
Notting Hill sits inside the Congestion Charge zone as well as ULEZ, so both are itemised on the quote rather than absorbed into an hourly rate. What shapes the job more is the neighbourhood itself — pastel terraces, communal garden squares and the carnival's home streets — which is why a W11 quote is not a Kensington and Chelsea average.
On access, carnival weekend closures, resident bays all week and communal gardens with no vehicle access — one reason one driver as standard on all three van sizes, with a second loader added by the hour where stairs, a lift booking or heavy furniture make a solo load impractical. Fitters travelling in use Notting Hill Gate (Central, Circle, District).
Area at a glance
Who lives in Notting Hill and what they live in decides how moving van hire is quoted and how long a visit takes. These are the published Census 2021 figures for the Notting Hill Gate and Notting Hill South and Notting Hill West neighbourhood itself — not Kensington and Chelsea-wide averages, and not estimates.
20,146
Residents
Notting Hill Gate and Notting Hill South and Notting Hill West neighbourhood, Census 2021
9,720
Households
Median age 39.3
Flats vs houses
Residents by sex
Single-person households
44.4%
Privately rented
43.1%
Source: ONS Census 2021 via Nomis (TS008, TS041, TS007A, TS044, TS054, TS003), MSOA geography. Figures cover the ONS neighbourhoods Notting Hill Gate, Notting Hill South, Notting Hill West (E02000582, E02000583, E02000584) — the published geography that covers Notting Hill, not the whole borough. Neighbourhood names: House of Commons Library MSOA Names (OGL). Coordinates for the W11 district: 51.5123, -0.2155 — Outward postcode centroid, postcodes.io (Ordnance Survey Open Data).
Small van and driver, per hour starts at £38 in Notting Hill on Kensington and Chelsea bookings — and 9,720 households on this patch, with Portobello Road Market a few streets away, and every job is quoted as a fixed written price before a fitter is booked. Van size first, then whether a second loader is needed on the Notting Hill rounds. A short wheelbase van suits a few items; a Luton with tail-lift is the rate most two-bed moves land on once the tail-lift's time saving on stairs is weighed against its higher hourly cost for Notting Hill (W11) addresses, with 15% social-rented stock nearby.
Most one-bed moves around Portobello Road Market fit a long-wheelbase van at £48 an hour; a two-bed with a washing machine or a wardrobe usually goes better in a Luton with tail-lift at £58 an hour, since the lift saves carrying heavy items down steps by hand around Notting Hill Gate (Central, Circle, District) — and 42% owner-occupation locally, with 9,720 households on this patch.
Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea runs controlled parking across much of Notting Hill around Notting Hill Gate (Central, Circle, District), with 75% of homes here being flats, and loading a van from an unpermitted bay is exactly the situation a suspension is for. We check the street before booking and itemise a suspension only where it is genuinely needed in Notting Hill, with this being Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea territory.
Yes, a driver alone can manage boxes and light furniture on W11 jobs, with 44% one-person households here — and 75% of homes here being flats, but with 75% of homes here being flats, most bookings from an upper floor add a second loader at £22 an hour so a sofa or wardrobe on stairs does not slow the van down to a single item at a time.
For a small load, yes — you pay for driver and van time rather than a fixed whole-property quote on the Notting Hill rounds, with 9,720 households on this patch. With 43% of Notting Hill homes privately rented, a short-notice room or studio move is the typical booking that suits the hourly rate better than a full removal on W11 jobs — and Portobello Road Market a few streets away, with 44% one-person households here.
Carnival weekend closures, resident bays all week and communal gardens with no vehicle access around Notting Hill Gate (Central, Circle, District). 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 W11 jobs — and this being Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea territory, with this being a short walk from Notting Hill Gate (Central, Circle, District).
Goods-in-transit and public liability cover apply to every booking in this 75% flats neighbourhood. Drivers are DBS-checked where a building requires it on Kensington and Chelsea bookings, with 9,720 households on this patch, and the vehicle's ULEZ and Congestion Charge compliance is confirmed before the job is booked. That paperwork is what most Kensington and Chelsea letting agents and managing agents ask for before work starts in a leasehold flat on the Notting Hill rounds, with 44% one-person households here.
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Two ways to go: price it yourself on the quote page, or pick a slot on the live booking calendar. Notting Hill W11 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.
