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Decide who has to agree
This is the group of decisions where the deadline belongs to a third party. A council, a managing agent, a freeholder, a facilities manager. They are easy with notice and impossible without it.
Every item on this page is a five-minute job weeks out and an unsolvable one at eight in the morning.
Who has to say yes
The suspension is usually the first hard deadline
On any street with controlled parking, a removals vehicle needs a bay suspension or a dispensation, and the council decides how far in advance the application must go in. The period differs between authorities and is not negotiable.
We apply. What we need is the confirmed date in time, which is why we press for it earlier than customers expect. There is no mechanism for arranging one on the morning.
Buildings deal with residents, not removers
Most managed blocks will take a lift booking from a leaseholder or a tenant and not from a contractor they have never heard of. So the booking is usually yours to make and ours to work to.
We will tell you exactly what to ask for: the date, the window, which lift, and whether a deposit against damage to common areas is required. All easy; none doable on the day.
Permission, and what a refusal costs
A freeholder or managing agent can withhold or withdraw permission to move in or out. Surfacing early, that is a problem with options — a different date, a different route, a conversation. Surfacing on the morning, it is a cancelled day.
So we ask about permissions as soon as a date is firm rather than assuming the answer is yes.
And the neighbours
Not a legal requirement and the cheapest item on this page. A note through two doors either side a couple of days beforehand turns a difficult morning into a routine one more reliably than anything arranged on our side.
Decide who has to agree
Questions about decide who has to agree
01 Who applies for the parking suspension?
We do. What we need from you is the confirmed date early enough for the council's own notice period, which differs between authorities.
02 What if the suspension is not granted?
We survey a second standing point, so the job becomes a longer carry from somewhere legal rather than a cancelled day. It is planned for rather than hoped about.
03 Who books the goods lift?
Usually you or your landlord, because buildings deal with residents rather than contractors. We work to whatever window is allocated and confirm it in writing.
04 What should we ask the building for?
The date, the window, which lift, and whether a deposit against damage to common areas is required. Four questions, one email.
05 Can a freeholder stop the move?
They can withhold or withdraw permission, which is why we ask as soon as a date is firm. Early it is a problem with options; late it is a cancelled day.
06 Should we tell the neighbours?
Yes. It costs nothing, it is not required, and it helps more than almost anything we can arrange ourselves.
Which decision are you at?
Both addresses, roughly what is going, and how firm the dates are. Those three start the schedule and everything else follows from them.