Solo creative
One household, partial-to-half vehicle, often a studio setup that needs proper crating. Single artists, musicians, writers, designers moving for community, light, or cost-of-living.
Peckham SE15 · International specialist
We move creatives, young families, and first-time movers abroad — from Peckham to four destinations.
France, Italy, Spain, Portugal. That's what we do. We come out to your SE15 flat or house, walk the inventory with you, write the quote, file the paperwork, and treat your move like the considered decision it is — not a logistics problem.
Removals from Peckham to —
Catchment
Properly local. Peckham SE15, the surrounding postcodes, and the bits of SE5 / SE22 the other firms don't quite cover.
If you're calling from one of these, we're the right shape of firm:
- Peckham SE15 — Bellenden Road, Rye Lane, Peckham Rye, the Peckham Levels area, Peckham Hill
- Nunhead — Linden Grove, Nunhead Lane, Ivydale Road, the Friern Manor / Brockley boundary
- East Dulwich edges (SE22) — the SE15-side terraces, North Cross Road, Lordship Lane south
- Camberwell south (SE5) — Coldharbour Lane east, Denmark Hill south, the Camberwell Grove side
- Honor Oak west — Honor Oak Park west, the One Tree Hill / Brenchley Gardens area
- New Cross edges — the SE15/SE14 boundary, around Telegraph Hill
- Forest Hill edges — the Honor Oak / Forest Hill boundary, Stondon Park
Outside this catchment? Get in touch anyway — we'll either take it or point you to a sibling network site that fits better.
Who we move
Four customer types we know best.
Most international removals firms split customers by household size or property type. We split them by what they're actually moving and why — because the conversation looks different for each.
Creative family
Two parents, school-age kids, full household. Moving for slower pace, better schools, family near grandparents. Kids' rooms packed last, unpacked first.
Maker / workshop relocator
Studio practitioner — ceramics, woodwork, printmaking, photography, music production. The kit comes with. Custom-crated, photographed, properly itemised on the customs inventory.
First-time mover abroad
Doing the international move for the first time and wanting plain advice from someone who's done it before. We talk you through what you actually need (visa, NIE/codice fiscale, AHC, NHR/not) without trying to scare you into upgrades.
Where we go
Three dedicated routes, one fourth on the hub.
France, Italy, Spain each have a page with the Peckham angle — what your kind of move actually looks like on that corridor. Portugal lives on the hub page; a dedicated Portugal-corridor specialist (UK Portugal Removals) holds the deeper claim there and we'll point you to them where it makes sense.
FIG. 01
Route one of three
Removals from Peckham to France
Paris if you must. Otherwise: somewhere with light.
Most Peckham customers who move to France aren't moving to Paris. They're moving to Marseille for the light, to Lyon for the food, to a village in Provence because they finally have enough remote-work flexibility to stop renting in zone 2. The brief is usually: get the stuff there safely, don't make it complicated, treat me like a person not a corporate relocation.
Read the France brief FIG. 02
Route two of three
Removals from Peckham to Italy
For the photograph you can already taste, and the lemon tree you can already smell.
Italy moves divide on geography in a way most other corridors don't. A move to a Bologna apartment is a normal European-city move with elevators, parking permits, and a customs queue at the Italian border. A move to a Tuscan farmhouse is rural, often via a track, sometimes with a one-vehicle-width lane that needs a smaller transfer truck on arrival. A move to Sicily or Calabria involves a ferry leg. We ask early which kind of Italy you're going to.
Read the Italy brief FIG. 03
Route three of three
Removals from Peckham to Spain
The most-asked-about destination on the corridor, for reasons that are mostly weather.
Most Peckham moves to Spain are not retirement to the costas. They're working-age creatives and young families moving for a slower life, a different cultural register, a property market that doesn't punish you for not being a hedge fund. We see lots of move-to-Granada-or-Sevilla rather than move-to-Marbella. We see family-with-school-age-kids choosing Bilbao for the bilingual Basque framework, or Madrid for the Lavapiés / Malasaña creative-quarter scene.
Read the Spain brief The four corridors
From SE15 to four destinations, by Channel road.
All four corridors run by overland road from the UK. Channel crossing (Eurotunnel or Dover ferry), through northern France and Belgium, customs at the destination-country border, onward to your address. For Spain we sometimes offer sea-via-Bilbao or Santander as an alternative on the right schedule. The map shows the standard pattern.
Hub: all routes In their words
Real SE15 moves, done.
Fictional names, representative voices — fictional but the kind of thing we hear back from real customers.
I was nervous about moving the print studio — the press alone is 200 kilos and the inks are temperature-sensitive. The team came out to look at it before they quoted, talked through how they'd crate it, and didn't try to upsell me anything I didn't need. Showed up to Marseille on the day. Setup the next morning. Honestly the calmest part of the whole move.
We chose Bologna because of the schools and because we wanted our kids to grow up speaking Italian. The move was already going to be emotional. What we needed from a removals firm was someone who'd treat it as a household move, not a logistics problem. We got that. They packed the kids' rooms first and unpacked them first too. Small thing, big difference.
Studio gear plus a one-bed apartment's worth of furniture, into a Madrid Lavapiés flat with a lift the size of a phone box. The surveyor measured the lift in inches and confirmed the upright piano would have to go up the stairs. He was right. They planned it, did it, didn't break anything. The phrase 'these things sometimes go wrong' was never said because they didn't.
We bought a place we couldn't really afford in a village we didn't really know, and the move date kept slipping because the French notaire was slow. Peckham Removals held the date with us through three reschedules without bumping the price. When we finally moved, the team was relaxed, on time, and the dog liked them. Real recommendation.
What countries do you actually do?
Four destinations: France, Italy, Spain, Portugal. France, Italy, and Spain each have their own page with the Peckham angle. Portugal is on the hub page in prose only — for Portugal-specific moves there's a dedicated single-corridor specialist (UK Portugal Removals) which we'll happily refer you to if your move is Portugal-only. We're not the kind of firm that pretends to do every European route. Four corridors, done well.
I have a studio / kiln / printing press / darkroom — can you handle it?
Yes. Studio relocations are a substantial part of our work — we've moved electric kilns, large-format printers, screen-printing rigs, complete darkrooms, lathes, ceramics setups, full music studios including upright pianos and serious amplifier rigs. The survey conversation covers what the kit is, how it'll be crated, what insurance value it needs, and how it'll be powered up at the destination. We treat the studio as the most important thing in the move because for most makers, it is.
What's the customs paperwork situation post-Brexit?
Procedural rather than scary. Your stuff still crosses duty-free under transfer-of-residence (ToR) relief on every EU corridor, provided you have owned it at least six months and are establishing residence at the destination. UK side we file ToR1 to HMRC. Destination side we file the country-specific declaration with the inventory. You sign and provide the residency evidence — visa, address contract, that kind of thing. For most Peckham moves the customs side is the quietest part of the project.
I'm moving with school-age kids — how does timing work around the school year?
Most Peckham families try to align with the UK summer or the European September start. The move happens in August or early September, kids start the new school year in September at the new place. Realistically this is the busiest period for the corridor and the most predictable date pressure. We book moves in August up to six months in advance for this reason. If your timing is flexible, off-season moves (October, January, March, May) are easier to schedule and sometimes more cost-effective.
What about pets?
We don't transport animals. Different regulatory regime, different vehicle requirements. We work alongside specialist pet-transport firms — Animalcouriers, Pets2Travel, a couple of others — and can refer you to one that fits your route. UK pet passports are no longer valid for EU post-Brexit; you need an Animal Health Certificate (AHC) issued in the UK within 10 days of travel, plus microchip and current rabies vaccination at least 21 days old.
Talk to us
Tell us about the move. No script, no sales pitch.
Roughly where you're going, roughly when, roughly what's moving. We'll be in touch promptly to arrange the survey.