UB10 · UB8 · the Hillingdon edge
Around UB10
The Hillingdon side of Uxbridge and the streets that touch it, described in the terms that change a quote rather than as a list of place names.
Ruislip, Northwood and the Buckinghamshire villages appear here as neighbours. We cross them constantly; we do not claim to be the local firm in any of them.
Two areas with opposite tenures, a mile apart
Hillingdon village and Ickenham have some of the longest average tenures in west London. The town centre and the campus have some of the shortest. Both are our work and they need completely different things from a removals firm.
Hillingdon village and Long Lane
The heart of the long-tenure area and the reason this site is organised the way it is. Interwar semis and detached houses on generous plots, with drives, side access and garages, and households who have been in them a very long time.
Straightforward to work and consistently underestimated for volume. The loft is boarded in most of these houses and the garage stopped holding a car years ago, and neither is visible from the street.
Ickenham
The old village around the pond, and the interwar and postwar estates that grew around it. Mature planting, gravel drives and a handful of approaches that need a look before a full-size vehicle is committed.
Tenures here are long too, and the housing is a shade larger on average than Hillingdon village, which shows up in the garage rather than the rooms.
Cowley, the town and the campus
The inversion. Denser terraced housing towards the canal with limited off-street parking, town-centre flats and purpose-built blocks, and a large student population around the university.
Short tenancies, part-loads and single rooms rather than whole households, and a completely different set of problems: lift bookings, loading bays, restricted move hours and check-out inventories.
The edges — Ruislip, Northwood and Denham
North and east into the Ruislip garden suburbs, where the housing and the tenures look much like Ickenham. West into Denham and Buckinghamshire, where Greater London simply stops: larger properties, long private drives, and a last quarter mile that gets surveyed.
Coverage
Questions about where we work
01 Which part has the longest tenures?
Hillingdon village, Long Lane and Ickenham, by a distance. The interwar stock suited families, the families stayed, and a large share of the households we survey there have been in the same house for decades.
02 And the shortest?
The town centre and the streets around the campus — flats, shared houses and tenancies measured in months. The work there is lift bookings, loading bays and check-out inventories rather than lofts.
03 Is Ickenham difficult to work?
Mostly no. The old village around the pond has some tight approaches and a few gravel drives that will not take a full-size vehicle, but the interwar estates around it are as straightforward as anywhere we go.
04 Do you go out to Denham and Buckinghamshire?
Yes. Larger properties, longer private drives, and lanes that get looked at before a vehicle is sent rather than assumed from a map.
How long have you been there?
Both addresses and the number of years in the one you are leaving. That second answer tells us more about the job than anything else you could send.