Removals in Crawley (RH10), West Sussex

As a guide only, a typical local two-bed move runs £650–£1,250 + VAT, and our man and van service starts from £80 for smaller jobs. The real figure always starts with a free video or in-home survey, so your fixed written quote follows within 24 hours and reflects the actual property, its access and any packing or storage, with no fees bolted on afterwards. A town-centre flat, a family house in Maidenbower and a new-build handover at Forge Wood are three separate jobs, so the figure follows what we see rather than the RH10 or RH11 postcode. See the removals pricing guide, try the moving cost calculator for an instant estimate, or request a free quote once you know roughly what is moving.

All of Crawley, across both RH10 and RH11 — Three Bridges, Northgate, Pound Hill, Maidenbower, Furnace Green, Tilgate, Ifield, Langley Green, West Green, Gossops Green, Bewbush, Broadfield, Southgate and the newer Forge Wood — all fourteen neighbourhoods the council lists today, each built around its own parade of shops, school and green space under the original New Town neighbourhood plan. We also cover the surrounding towns — Horsham, Horley, Reigate, Redhill and Haywards Heath — and the Gatwick fringe. A quiet New-Town cul-de-sac is a different job to a pinch point near the High Street, so we confirm access for your exact address at survey rather than off the postcode alone.

No — and we would not claim to be. Wolves Removals has been family-run since 2016, working from our base near Ashington and Pulborough in West Sussex, and Crawley is a north-east run of about 20 miles, most of it dual carriageway once you join the A264. Firms based in Crawley itself, including one with a branch on Manor Royal, and movers just over the line in East Grinstead, sit closer to your door than we do. Direct trains link nearby Ifield and Horsham in around ten minutes, the same West Sussex corridor our van uses to reach you. We compete on planning, full insurance cover and careful handling — not on a false local claim — and a free survey shows exactly who is turning up before you book, ahead of a fixed written quote.

Yes. Forge Wood, north of the M23, is Crawley’s newest neighbourhood — up to 1,900 homes being built by Persimmon and Taylor Wimpey around a central community space, with 1,457 households occupied as of January 2024 and a primary school already open on site. Kilnwood Vale sits just over the Horsham-district border to the west, on Crawley’s doorstep rather than in it — both are active new-build developments where part-finished roads, shared parking and booked delivery windows shape the day. We agree the loading point and timing with you and the site in advance, and size the vehicle to the access, so the handover runs to plan rather than being worked out at the gate on the morning itself.

Forge Wood is still being built out, so a completion-day move there is a phased-site job rather than a finished-estate one. New plots release phase by phase as roads and services are finished, and keys are handed over by the developer on the day rather than through a chain, which changes the rhythm of the move — the slot is set by the site, not a solicitor’s completion call. We confirm your exact plot, the site’s current access point and any temporary road layout directly with you and, where needed, the site team before moving day, rather than assuming the estate looks the way it did on the last visit. Shared visitor parking and part-finished roads are common on an active phase, so the vehicle is sized to what can actually reach your door that week, not to the postcode.

Yes — commercial moves are a genuine strength here. Crawley’s Manor Royal is one of the South East’s largest business districts, around 240 hectares with more than 600 businesses, around 30,000 jobs and almost 10 million sq ft of commercial floorspace — home to the UK’s largest industrial business improvement district, running since 2013. Gatwick sits right alongside, handling 43.24 million passengers in 2024, so office, workshop and warehouse relocations are steady work for us. Our office and business removals team handles desks, filing and IT — workstations and servers included — usually outside trading hours to protect your working day, with one coordinator from survey to sign-off and the same full insurance cover as a house move.

Yes — antiques and fine-art handling is one of the clearest reasons to book us. Our fine-art expertise is a recognised art-and-antiques trade credential rather than a slogan, a credential few removal firms anywhere carry. That matters across a town built in distinct waves — 1950s New Town terraces, 1990s Maidenbower estates and older Ifield and Three Bridges properties all hold pieces worth handling properly, from inherited furniture to fine art bought locally over the years. Full insurance cover travels on every job, with high-value pieces covered on declaration, and our fragile and fine-art packing wraps and crates mirrors, paintings, china and period furniture properly for the road, whichever part of Crawley the piece is travelling from or to.

Fully insured, with goods-in-transit and public liability cover in place and high-value items covered on declaration, on every Crawley move however far it runs from our West Sussex base. Optional full damage insurance can be added on request, and we set out the level in writing alongside your quote rather than leaving it as an unspecified ‘fully insured’ line, so you can compare it directly against any other Crawley mover’s policy before you book. Ashington to Crawley is a dual-carriageway run of about 20 miles, and cover applies for the whole journey door to door, not just while the van is parked outside your house, which matters on a longer removal day such as a Forge Wood new-build handover or a chain-delayed completion.

Yes. When exchange and completion do not line up, a chain breaks, or the new place cannot take everything at once, our clean, dry, secure containerised storage keeps a full Crawley household or just the overflow — days or months — and we redeliver the moment you are ready. It suits Crawley’s two-way market well: upsizers moving between the town’s older neighbourhoods and buyers waiting on a phased new-build handover at Forge Wood both use it for the same reason, a short, unpredictable gap between one address and the next that a fixed moving date cannot always absorb. Storage is quoted alongside your removal at survey stage, not as a separate booking with a second set of paperwork.

Yes. Our full packing service puts a trained crew in before moving day to box the house, take down beds and wardrobes, and wrap the fragile items — which matters in Crawley’s period homes and among inherited pieces, particularly around Ifield and the older streets of Three Bridges that pre-date the New Town. Choose full packing, part packing for the awkward rooms only such as the kitchen or garage, or supply your own boxes and pack yourself with our materials delivered in advance. Whichever you choose, the crew and vehicle booked for your Crawley move stay the same, so packing never adds a second visit or a second quote to sign off.

Not always. The older streets around the High Street and Old Town carry their own pinch points, and new-build estates like Forge Wood and Kilnwood Vale can have part-finished or restricted access — so a full 18-tonne lorry cannot always reach the door. Where that is the case we bring a smaller vehicle or shuttle the load in a van sized to the actual street, worked out at survey rather than on the morning. The same applies to town-centre flats above shops, where a permit, a delivery slot or a marked bay can decide the whole day, and to any address where the nearest legal stopping point is a street away from the front door. Flag any tight turn, delivery slot or parking restriction when you first get in touch and it goes straight into the plan.

On balance, yes, for the right buyer. Crawley is a borough of about 118,500 people at the 2021 census, up 11.2 per cent on 2011 — growth well above the England average. It is one of the original post-war New Towns, laid out from 1947 and grown in stages to fourteen named neighbourhoods, each planned with its own shops, school and green space rather than one sprawling estate. The ONS put the average house price at £335,000 in early 2026, noticeably less than Horsham’s roughly £441,000, while Three Bridges reaches London Bridge in about 33 minutes. Hazelwick School, in Three Bridges, was rated Outstanding in every category by Ofsted in October 2023. It suits commuters and growing families more readily than anyone chasing a quiet village feel.

Choosing a Crawley neighbourhood for a family move comes down to budget and life stage. Maidenbower, declared the borough’s 13th neighbourhood in 1986 and mostly built out in the 1990s, is cul-de-sac estate streets aimed squarely at families, largely complete by 2000. Pound Hill, the largest of Crawley’s neighbourhoods and split across two electoral wards, offers more housing stock and choice at a similar family stage of life. Three Bridges mixes older streets around the mainline interchange with newer infill, and has Hazelwick School and a fast London Bridge run on the doorstep for older children and commuting parents. Forge Wood, north of the M23, is the newest neighbourhood, still filling in from 2015 with fresh-build homes rather than a settled, mature street pattern.

Book as early as you can once a date firms up, and certainly before you need a specific day. Fridays, month-ends and the summer school-holiday weeks are Crawley’s busiest for every local mover, including us, because completion dates cluster on those days across the borough’s established streets and its new-build pipeline alike. A rough date is enough to get a free survey booked and a fixed written quote in hand, and we can hold a provisional slot while contracts catch up, which matters on a chain. Packing your own boxes, keeping off Fridays and month-ends where your solicitor allows it, and giving us as much notice as possible all help keep the day straightforward and the price as low as the job allows.