The bay suspension
Most of central Wimbledon sits inside a controlled parking zone, which means the kerb outside your door is not available to a removals van simply because you live there. A suspension has to be applied for from the council in advance.
It is not something that can be arranged on the morning, and it is the single most common reason a removal starts badly. Without one the van stands wherever it can legally stand, and everything you own is carried that distance twice.
What a managing agent will want
If you are in a purpose-built block, expect the managing agent to want some or all of the following before anybody is allowed in:
- A copy of the remover’s public liability insurance.
- A copy of the goods-in-transit cover.
- A booked lift slot, sometimes with a porter present.
- Agreement on the route through communal areas, and on protection for it.
- Occasionally, restrictions on when goods may be moved through the building at all.
Hand it over rather than handling it
All of that is routine and none of it should be your problem. Give your remover the agent’s contact details when you book and let them deal with it directly — they have sent those documents a hundred times and you have not.
The neighbours are a permission too
Not a formal one, but a real one. A van across a shared drive, a communal hall full of boxes or a propped fire door will turn a straightforward day into a dispute.
Telling the people either side of you the day before costs nothing and removes most of it.
Start earlier than feels necessary
Suspensions, lift bookings and agent paperwork all run on other people’s timescales. Everything else about a move can be arranged quickly; these cannot, and they are the things that stop a day before it starts.