Your van and driver in South Hayling
How it works, what it costs and who turns up.
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What a van and driver is
A van, a driver, a fixed price – and no bidding.
A van and driver is the middle ground between hiring a van yourself and booking a removals firm.
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Van and driver versus man and van
Same idea, better promise.
"Man and van" is what people search for; it usually means one person with their own van, quoted on the phone, paid in cash, and you hope they turn up.
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What fits in each van
We measure in wheelie bins. One bin's worth is about eight bin bags.
Picture a wheelie bin. One bin's worth is a few boxes and bags. Two is a fridge or a washing machine with room to spare. Four is a room.
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How the price works
Fixed prices, the same everywhere.
A move's price depends on how much is moving, not where you live. A wheelie bin's worth is £69 anywhere in England; a full load is £349 in Salisbury, Sheffield or Southend.
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Who turns up
Checked, insured, rated – and paid properly.
Every driver is an independent partner who has shown us their licence, their hire-and-reward insurance, goods-in-transit and public liability cover, and their right to work, before they're offered a single job.
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Lifting, stairs and awkward things
Two people when the job needs them, at no extra cost.
We decide from what you're moving: a sofa, a wardrobe, a fridge, or a medium load and up gets two people, and that's already in the price. There's nothing to choose and nothing extra to pay.
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Booking, changing and cancelling
Two minutes to book. Change it yourself up to 48 hours before.
Book online for today (until 3pm; after that, tomorrow from 1pm) or any day up to about six months ahead, by card, Apple Pay or Google Pay.
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Same day? Yes, until 3pm.
Today, if you book by 3pm.
Book before 3pm and you can pick today: the earliest one-hour arrival is the hour after next (book at 10:20 and it's 12 to 1), if a partner's free. After 3pm, the earliest is 1pm tomorrow.
About South Hayling
South Hayling at a glance
South Hayling sits at the southern tip of Hayling Island in the PO11 postcode district, with the household waste recycling centre on Fishery Lane less than a mile from the centre and the mainland town of Havant a few miles north across the bridge. It's a place where getting anything larger than a car boot's worth of belongings on or off the island usually means proper planning, whether that's a tip run to a licensed recycling centre, a delivery from Ocean Park Retail Park, or a house move that has to cross the water into Havant, Emsworth or Portsmouth. Van & Driver works as a marketplace here: you book a van with a driver at a fixed price for the move, and the work itself is carried out by a local partner. On this page you can arrange van hire with a driver or a man and van for house removals, furniture delivery, student moves in and out of term-time accommodation, storage runs to self-storage sites over on the Portsmouth side, next-day moves, commercial courier work and marketplace deliveries. Fixed prices are shown for trips within South Hayling itself and for the short hops across to Emsworth, Havant and Portsmouth, so you know the cost of getting a single item or a full van load off the island before you book. Whatever the move, the price is agreed upfront and the same throughout.
South Hayling had 15,305 people at the 2021 Census. Furniture and flat-pack from Ocean Park Retail Park, Solent Retail Park and Meridian Shopping Centre is a common single-item run. The council's nearest recycling centre is Hayling Island Household Waste Recycling Centre, 0.9 miles away; a tip run with us goes to a licensed recycling centre, with the disposal in the price.
