Man with a Van Manchester

Man and van in Manchester, from Bradford

Man With Van Long Wheelbase is one driver and one Ford Transit long wheelbase van, based in Bradford, 39 miles from Manchester (60-80 minutes by road). Jobs in Manchester are quoted as one fixed figure, agreed before we set off, with the drive already in it.

Moving in Manchester: what to know first

South of the centre, the rows are Victorian and Edwardian. Levenshulme off the A6 Stockport Road is mostly terraced houses from the 1880s, many of them two up, two down, and a few back streets such as Carrill Grove and Worsley Grove are still laid in setts. Rusholme's terraces behind the Curry Mile on Wilmslow Road date from 1880 to 1930, and around Fallowfield and Withington big family houses have been split into student flats.

The centre is flats. Ancoats has mills turned into homes, such as Murrays' Mills and the McConnel Building, on streets like Redhill Street and Jersey Street that are partly setts. In the Northern Quarter, warehouses above shops on Oldham Street, Tib Street and Thomas Street are flats, and much of it is one way or closed to traffic. Multi-storeys such as the Arndale and Shudehill are no use to a van about 2.5m tall.

Bus gates close sections of Oxford Road between Hathersage Road and Portland Street to general traffic from 6am to 9pm, seven days a week, so a job by the universities is reached from the side streets. Further out, Chorlton has terraces and the large semis of Chorltonville, Didsbury has villas and flats off Wilmslow Road, and Wythenshawe is the big interwar garden-city estate by the M56.

Parking and access in Manchester

Manchester City Council will suspend an on-street pay and display bay for a domestic removal at £30 per bay per day, or grant a dispensation to park on a yellow line at £30 per vehicle per day, with at least five working days' notice. City-centre car parks are multi-storeys, and the van is about 2.5m tall, so it waits on the street.

• Bus gates close sections of Oxford Road between Hathersage Road and Portland Street to general traffic from 6am to 9pm, seven days a week, so jobs by the universities are reached from side streets.
• Northern Quarter streets such as Oldham Street, Thomas Street and Tib Street are one way or partly pedestrian, and Stevenson Square is closed to traffic.
• Several Ancoats and Northern Quarter streets, such as Redhill Street, Gun Street and Eagle Street, are laid in setts.
• Levenshulme terraces sit off the A6 Stockport Road, and back streets such as Carrill Grove and Worsley Grove are setts.
• City-centre multi-storeys such as the Arndale, Shudehill Interchange and Church Street are no use to a 2.5m van, so it loads from a legal on-street stop.

Local details checked 25 October 2026.

Man and van services we offer in Manchester

Across M1 to M20 the van does house removals in Manchester, flat moves in Ancoats and the city centre, student moves to Fallowfield and Victoria Park, appliance delivery from Cheetham Hill and Marketplace collection from terraced streets, each at one fixed price agreed before the van leaves Bradford.

Every service we offer in Manchester

All 11 of our services run in Manchester, each with its own page covering how that job actually works here.

Parts of Manchester we cover

Ancoats, Northern Quarter, Castlefield, Hulme, Moss Side, Rusholme, Victoria Park, Chorlton-on-Medlock, Ardwick, Fallowfield, Ladybarn, Withington, Didsbury, West Didsbury, East Didsbury, Chorlton-cum-Hardy, Whalley Range, Levenshulme, Longsight, Burnage, Gorton, Openshaw, Beswick, Cheetham Hill, Crumpsall, Harpurhey, Moston, Newton Heath, Northenden, Wythenshawe, Baguley, and everywhere in between. If your street isn't listed, it's almost certainly still covered.

Common Manchester routes

• Manchester → Bradfordthe A56 Bury New Road to M60 junction 17, the M60 to Simister, the M62 east and the M606, about 39 miles
• Manchester → Liverpoolthe M602 to the M62 west, then the A5080 into the city, about 33 miles
• Manchester → Leedsthe A576 to the M60, the M62 east and the M621, about 44 miles
• Manchester → Sheffieldthe A57 to the M67 at Hyde, then over the Pennines, about 38 miles

Frequently asked questions: man with a van in Manchester

Where the local details on this page come from

Checked on 25 October 2026 against:

• Manchester (Wikipedia): City of Manchester population 552,000 at the 2021 census (ethnicity table total 551,938)
• Levenshulme (Wikipedia): typical housing is terraced houses, mostly built around 1880 to 1890, many two up, two down
• Rusholme (Wikipedia): the Curry Mile on Wilmslow Road (B5117)
• Withington (Wikipedia): larger homes sold off for student flats; Wilmslow Road bus corridor; Burton Road
• Fallowfield (Wikipedia): large student population; the University of Manchester Fallowfield Campus; Wilmslow Road and Wilbraham Road
• Fallowfield Campus (Wikipedia): Ashburne Hall on Wilmslow Road at Old Hall Lane; Oak House on Moseley Road
• University of Manchester, Unsworth Park: 20 Chancellors Way, Fallowfield M14 6FZ; over 1000 bedrooms in flats for nine to ten students
• University of Manchester halls by campus: City (Denmark Road, Grafton Street, Kincardine Court, Parkway Gate, Square Gardens)
• University of Manchester accommodation: three residential campuses; City campus about 0.3 miles from the academic campus
• University of Manchester (Wikipedia): 46,305 students in 2024/25; Oxford Road campus; three residential campuses, City
• Victoria Park (Wikipedia): early 19th-century estate of large villas between Rusholme and Longsight, about 2 miles south of the centre
• Manchester Metropolitan University (Wikipedia): All Saints and Birley Fields campus; Cambridge and Cavendish halls on Higher Cambridge Street
• Manchester Met halls: Birley (Dale, Naylor, Warde townhouses; Dunham and Vine flats), Cavendish at the heart of campus, Oxford Court
• Hulme (Wikipedia): crescents demolished in the early 1990s and replaced with low-rise flats and houses
• Ancoats (Wikipedia): former industrial district being gentrified as a residential area; Murrays' Mills, Royal Mill and Paragon Mill
• Northern Quarter (Wikipedia): centred on Oldham Street, with Stevenson Square, Tib Street, Thomas Street and Hilton Street
• Chorlton-cum-Hardy (Wikipedia): Chorltonville garden suburb from 1911, mostly large semi-detached houses; villas on Edge Lane and High Lane
• Didsbury (Wikipedia): population 21,913 in 2021; Victorian mansions on Wilmslow Road; Palatine Road through West Didsbury
• Wythenshawe (Wikipedia): population about 97,635; begun in the 1920s as a garden city, once the largest council estate in Europe
• Manchester Fort (Wikipedia): retail park in Cheetham Hill, 36 units, opened 2005, B&Q and TK Maxx anchors
• Manchester Fort visitor information: Cheetham Hill Road, Manchester M8 8EP, at the junction of Cheetham Hill Road (A665) and Queens Road
• Currys Manchester Cheetham Hill: Unit C, Cheetham Hill Retail Park, Elizabeth Street, Manchester M8 8BB; retail park parking
• Manchester City Council, suspensions and dispensations: minimum 5 working days' notice
• Manchester City Council, large unwanted items: one free collection of up to three items a year, then £32 for up to three and £64 for up to six
• Manchester City Council, advice for students: move out of off-campus housing as early as possible; fly-tipping fine of £400
• University of Manchester: Oxford Road bus gates restrict sections of the corridor between Hathersage Road and Portland Street
• Clean Air Greater Manchester: plan backed by government with no charges to drive on local roads
• M60 (Wikipedia): junction 4 M56 for Manchester Airport; junction 5 A5103 for Didsbury; junction 12 M62 west and M602
• OpenStreetMap: street map and driving routes
• postcodes.io (ONS data): postcode, ward and parish lookups for M2 5DB, M14 6GF, M14 5ED and M14 5PN