Lewisham at a glance
Within the SE6, SE13 and SE23 postcode districts, moves tend to weave between busy shopping stops, student addresses and storage sites, with Catford Bridge station only 0.3 miles from the centre acting as a handy reference point for timing collections and keys handovers. Many bookings are short hops between flats and houses across these districts, or quick pick‑ups of single items such as a sofa, a bed, a wardrobe or a washing machine from friends, sellers or storage. Flat‑pack runs and larger furniture often come from Lewisham Shopping Centre 1 mile away, Bell Green Retail Park 1.2 miles and New Cross Gate Retail Park 2.1 miles, where parking and access planning can make the difference on the day. Term‑time work connects student homes with Surrey House & Surrey Annexe 1.8 miles, the Department of Computing 1.9 miles and Goldsmiths, University of London Campus 1.9 miles, so careful loading for desks, screens and boxes is common. Loads frequently go into or out of Access Self Storage Catford 0.9 miles, Big Yellow Self Storage 1.7 miles and Shurgard Self Storage 2.7 miles, with inventory lists and unit codes kept to hand to speed things up. For clear‑outs and decluttering, tip runs head to Southwark Reuse and Recycling Centre 2.8 miles, whether it is old furniture, garden waste or general clutter, and combining a storage drop with a recycling run is a regular request. Day to day, people moving around the town typically book for house and flat moves within the town itself and to and from the towns nearby, single‑item transport, student start‑ and end‑of‑term moves, collections from the retail parks, and shuttling belongings between homes and storage, all planned around local access, lift sizes and the best time window for each address.
Lewisham had 300,764 people at the 2021 Census. Furniture and flat-pack from Lewisham Shopping Centre, Bell Green Retail Park and New Cross Gate Retail Park is a common single-item run. The council's nearest recycling centre is Southwark Reuse and Recycling Centre, 2.8 miles away; a tip run with us goes to a licensed recycling centre, with the disposal in the price.