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International removals from Stevenage begin round the back. It was the first town designated under the New Towns Act, and it was built on a principle that still catches people out. Vehicles and pedestrians were deliberately separated, so on a great many streets the front of the house faces a path and the road is round the back.
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For international movers that inverts the usual question. It is not whether a vehicle can reach your front door, because frequently no vehicle ever does. It is which service road or garage court gets closest, and how far the carry is from there.
None of that is difficult once it is known. It is difficult when a crew arrives at a postcode, finds a pedestrian street and starts working out the answer with the clock running.
On the older neighbourhoods international movers meet the same pattern. A pedestrian frontage, a green, and a service road behind the terrace giving access to garages and back gates. That road is where the vehicle goes.
So the number that matters is the distance from your door to wherever the vehicle can stand. Twenty metres is ordinary and forty is common, and forty metres each way with a wardrobe is a different job from a driveway collection.
Garage courts add a second question. They are often shared, sometimes gated, and not always wide enough to turn a long vehicle in. A moving company that sends a surveyor sees all of that in two minutes; one quoting from a description will not.
North of the centre the Old Town high street predates all of this by several centuries. Narrow, historic frontages, on street parking and a loading window that closes when the shops open.
It behaves like the other old towns in the county: a smaller vehicle at the property and a transfer, or a very early start. What it does not have is the separated network, so at least the road is at the front.
The newer estates on the edges, including Great Ashby, are the third pattern again. Drives, garages and turning space, where the movers and packers load once straight into the container.
A long carry changes the wrapping, not the method. Every piece is finished indoors and stays covered for the whole walk, because a blanket that comes loose halfway down a service path is a blanket doing nothing.
Furniture that unbolts comes apart first. It is easier to carry, it fits a garage court gate, and it takes the strain off joints that a long walk would otherwise work loose. Fixings are bagged and tied to the largest section.
Weather matters more on a long carry too. A crew working an exposed service road in rain covers items differently from one loading through a front door, so mention the season along with the access.
Volume and destination set the shipping. Locally the carry distance is the line that moves, because it is hours, not miles.
Volume based groupage
around £930 to £1,850
Shared container
around £1,700 to £3,280
Container to yourself
around £4,580 to £6,620
Container to yourself
around £7,200 to £11,450
Ask what carry distance the quote assumes. In this town that single figure explains most of the difference between two prices. The county page carries the bands.
Planning price ranges reviewed August 2026. Next review August 2027.
Stevenage sits on the A1(M) with Hitchin, Welwyn and Letchworth close by, so the local list of international removal companies is comfortably long.
Ask one town specific question: where will the vehicle park. A firm that has worked here answers with service road or garage court without hesitating.
Then the pair that settle it anywhere. How regularly is your route served, and whose name is on the delivery abroad.
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Declarations and the shipping set are the mover's to raise. Back from you goes a list of contents with a figure against every line, worked through room by room, and proof of identity.
Put the access detail on the file in writing. Which service road, whether the garage court is gated and roughly how far the carry is. It has no bearing on customs and it decides the crew size.
On the way back, get the relief claim in before the ship berths. Eligibility is published on GOV.UK; anything about tax goes to the authority abroad.
Because on many streets there is no road at the front. The town separated vehicles from pedestrians by design, so access is from a service road behind.
It is measured in hours, not miles. Forty metres each way with heavy furniture needs more crew than a driveway collection with identical contents.
Often the best option and worth checking first. Some are gated, some are shared and not all will turn a long vehicle.
Completely. It is an ancient high street with narrow frontages and a short loading window, so an early start or a transfer vehicle is usual.
Yes, it sits in SG1 on the edge of the town, and the access there is ordinary estate housing with drives.
Which road a vehicle can reach, whether it is gated, and roughly how many paces from your door to that point.
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Written and reviewed by Darren Benjamin, founder of International Removals Companies, working in international moving since 2010.
What is written here comes from service road, garage court and Old Town jobs run by network partners. Whether a specific court is gated or turnable is settled at survey. Prices were issued in the year to August 2026.
Carry distances vary street by street and are measured on the day, not from a map.
Send the collection postcode, the destination, your date, a rough inventory and say which road a vehicle can actually reach.
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