Flat Removals in York

Loading hours, bollards and lifts: moving a York flat

Inside the walls, the clock decides. The footstreets, including Coney Street, Davygate, Parliament Street and Low Petergate, are closed to vehicles from 10.30am to 5pm every day, Stonegate takes loading only in the morning, up to 10.30am, and Shambles only before 10.30am or after 5pm. The van can reach York from about 9am, so the morning window before the Blake Street and Goodramgate barriers close is short: enough for a studio, while a bigger flat may suit the evening, except on Stonegate.

Outside the walls, the problem is the building. The Groves has blocks of 1960s flats and maisonettes between Garden Street, Penley's Grove Street and Lowther Street, with shared stairs and the area's closure points on the approach. The Chocolate Works, on the old Terry's site, has apartments off Clock Tower Way, where the managing agent can say where a van may stand. Neither the Esplanade car park, signed at 6ft 11in, nor Piccadilly at 6ft 6in, takes a van about 2.5m tall, so loading is from the street or the block's own parking.

Getting a York flat ready to move

• Say how much is in the flat, since a big load inside the walls is better booked for the evening than squeezed into the morning after a 9am arrival
• Check with your managing agent whether the lift can be held or protected, and whether there is a loading bay in the block
• Tell us the floor, the number of steps and whether the stairs are shared, as in the Groves maisonettes
• If the new flat is in a ResPark zone, buy a visitor permit for the day so the van can stand outside
• Beds and flat-pack wardrobes are taken apart before they go down a narrow communal stair

York flats and how the van reaches them

• Goodramgate, Low Petergate and Colliergateflats over shops inside the footstreet zone, reached only outside footstreet hours
• Stonegate and Shamblesbollarded streets: Shambles loads morning or evening, Stonegate in the morning only
• The Chocolate Works, Bishopthorpe Roadapartments on the old Terry's site by the racecourse
• Garden Street and Penley's Grove Street1960s flats and maisonettes in The Groves
• Walmgate and Fossgateolder buildings near the walls, with loading on Fossgate only in marked areas

Flat moves around York

• Bradford → York42 miles by the M62, A1(M) and A64, 55 to 70 minutes
• Goodramgate → The Grovesout through Monk Bar and Lord Mayor's Walk, a few minutes
• Bishopthorpe Road → Cliftonover the Ouse and up Bootham on the A19

Floors, lifts and loading windows in a York flat price

The floors at each end, whether there is a lift, the walk from the nearest legal stop and the time window inside the walls set the price, which is agreed before the van leaves Bradford. See how we quote for the full breakdown.

Flat Removals in York: your questions