Cobbles, permit zones and estate roads: where the van stops

Scholes keeps several cobbled streets, Roscoe Street, Rupert Street and Hunt Street among them, and with cars along the kerb there is not much space. The van pulls into the first legal gap and the piece is trolleyed to it, since Wigan Council fines a wheel on the pavement at £70. In Swinley, north of the centre, the permit zones run 9am to 5pm Monday to Saturday, so the signs on the seller's street matter.

It is worth a few questions before any money changes hands. Ask the seller for the measurements and photos of marks or damage, and find out whether a wardrobe or bed was built in the room, in which case it comes apart before it can leave. Pass on the seller's number when you book so the time is fixed, and settle the payment with them yourself; the driver loads only items already paid for.

Questions to settle with a Wigan seller first

The seller's full address and a time someone will be in
Sizes, and whether it has to be taken apart to come out
Whether there are permit bays or yellow lines outside
Payment made before the van arrives, so the seller can hand it over when the van arrives
The width of your own door and stairs, so it fits at your end

Wigan streets a Marketplace pick-up might start from

Scholescobbled rows such as Roscoe Street and Rupert Street, east of the river
Swinleypermit-zone streets, enforced 9am to 5pm Monday to Saturday
Gidlow and Springfieldterraced streets with parked cars along both kerbs
Hawkley Hall and Worsley Hallestate roads where the van can often wait outside
Newtown and Pembertonterraces and semis either side of Ormskirk Road

Marketplace pick-ups across Wigan and into the next towns

Bradford → Wigan51 miles by the M62 and M61, 65 to 80 minutes
Whelley → Goose Greena table from the east side, by the B5238, Riverway and Westwood Way
Wigan → Boltonthe A6 and A6027 to the M61, about 11 miles

Size, access and the two addresses: a Wigan collection price

How big the piece is, how easy the seller's door and your own are, and the miles from one address to the other decide the price, agreed before the van sets off. See how we quote for the full breakdown.