International removals from Battersea, Nine Elms, and architectural SW London.
From the Power Station residences to Paris La Défense. From Nine Elms towers to Lisbon Parque das Nações. From Battersea Rise period terraces to Milan Brera. Same crew door to door. Apartment to apartment.
The catchment is a structural mix — Power Station and Nine Elms tower-residences operate one shape; Battersea Rise and Latchmere Victorian terraces operate another; Albert Bridge corridor mansion flats operate a third. The move plan adapts.
Battersea Power StationSW11
Switch House East / West, Boiler House — estate-managed delivery bays
Moves from Battersea reflect the area's range. Power Station residents heading to Paris La Défense for a banking role. Nine Elms tech professionals consolidating into Lisbon's Parque das Nações. Battersea Rise families making the move to Milan Porta Nuova. Each move has its own logistics. We handle them all — apartment to apartment, same crew door to door.
Putney Removals is the adjacent SW London sister-site at SW15 with an editorial-considered register. We are SW8 / SW11 with an architectural-contemporary register. Both serve the SW-London-affluent professional demographic; the operational and brand register differs. We refer to Putney for SW15-rooted customers; they refer to us for SW8 / SW11-rooted ones. Honest sister-site coordination.
Who moves with us
Four housing contexts. Four operational shapes.
Battersea\'s housing range is its operationally distinctive thing. The move plan adapts to which kind of property you are moving from — and into.
New-build apartment
Battersea Reach, Nine Elms tower residences, Embassy Gardens, and the newer SW8 / SW11 apartment stock. Organised service-bay, structured lift coordination, contemporary logistics. Operational shape that matches new-build destination addresses (Paris La Défense, Milan Porta Nuova, Lisbon Parque das Nações).
Who this is
New-build apartment owner or tenant
Often banking, finance, tech professional
Mid-career or family-formation stage
Destination typically also new-build or tower-residence
How we work
Estate-management dock-and-lift booking at the Battersea end
Destination service-lift slot booked through our destination partners
Move plan documents both windows
Crew briefing covers the structured logistics protocol
Victorian terrace
Battersea Rise, Latchmere, Lavender Hill, and the period terraced stock across SW11. Narrow stairs, period banisters, bay-window front and back-extension rear layouts. Operational shape that pairs with comparable destination period stock (Milan Brera, Madrid Salamanca older blocks, Lisbon Lapa).
Who this is
Period-terrace owner or long-term tenant
Established Battersea family or design-architecture professional
Often pre-school or school-age family stage
Destination often also period stock or older-central address
How we work
Survey documents narrow-stair access and disassembly requirements
Council parking suspension booked for the move-day lorry
Crew sized for the access (typically more crew than a tower-residence move)
Higher-value period pieces itemised separately at survey
Power Station development
Battersea Power Station residences specifically — Switch House East and West, the Boiler House, the broader Power Station estate. Distinctive operational shape: estate-managed delivery bays, timed lift windows, concierge coordination, security-cleared crew briefing. The signature SW11 move shape.
Who this is
Battersea Power Station residence owner or tenant
Typically banking, fund-management, tech, or international-professional
Often mid-career, often corporate-relocation move
Destination typically also tower-residence or new-build corporate apartment
How we work
Coordinate with Power Station estate management for the delivery-bay slot
Security and crew clearance arranged in advance
Move plan documents the booked window and the dock-to-lift route
Destination side (often La Défense, Porta Nuova, Cuatro Torres, Parque das Nações) coordinated in lockstep
Period mansion flat
Prince of Wales Drive, Albert Bridge Road, the Embankment-facing Edwardian mansion-flat stock, and the Chelsea-edge Battersea corridor. Third to fifth-floor without lifts, original staircases, period door-frames. Operational shape that pairs with comparable Paris Haussmann, Milan period apartment, and central Madrid period stock.
Who this is
Period mansion-flat owner or long-term tenant
Often diplomatic, international-professional, or established Battersea-Chelsea-edge family
Mid-career or pre-retirement professional
Destination often Paris central, Milan central, Rome Parioli, or comparable period stock
How we work
Survey covers narrow-stair access and period-frame disassembly
Larger crew for the carry-up sequence
Period furniture itemised separately for higher-cover insurance
Destination access — comparable period stock — surveyed in parallel
Destinations
Four corridors. Urban-corporate.
France, Italy, Spain, Portugal — framed for the architectural-contemporary Battersea move. Paris La Défense, Milan Porta Nuova, Madrid Cuatro Torres, Lisbon Parque das Nações.
The vehicle that loads at your Battersea property is the vehicle that arrives at the destination. The crew that packs is the crew that unloads. Same crew door to door. No third-party hand-offs. Apartment to apartment.
Eurotunnel via Folkestone
The standard road-freight crossing for France, Italy, Spain. Predictable timing.
Dover–Calais ferry
Alternative for the same overland routes through France, Belgium, and onward.
Sea route to Portugal and Mediterranean
Via Bilbao or direct shipping into Lisbon — the practical route for the Iberian destinations.
Battersea households
Customers we have moved.
A corporate move with corporate timing. Both ends required service-bay coordination and we were not interested in surprises. The Battersea team booked both delivery windows in advance, the load-out happened on the booked slot, the La Défense delivery happened on the booked slot. Apartment to apartment. No improvisation.
The Okonkwo-Sterling household
Banking director, partner in venture-tech
Battersea Power Station residences, SW11 → Paris La Défense — Coeur Défense
We were the modern-creative move pattern, exactly. Architecture library, design archive, a few pieces we cared about. The Battersea team itemised what needed separate handling, packed it in the protective register we expected, and delivered into Foz on the date we booked against. Modern, practical, no fluff.
The Aronovich-Pemberton family
Design partner, architecture-practice partner, two pre-school children
Nine Elms, SW8 → Porto — Foz do Douro
Milan Porta Nuova is operationally one of the cleaner urban-corporate destinations, but the Battersea Albert Bridge end was the harder side — Edwardian mansion-flat with narrow staircase, vintage furniture our parents passed down, and the move had to fit around a single working week. The Battersea crew worked the access with care. Considered move, contemporary tone — exactly what we wanted.
The Tanaka-Whitfield household
Fund-management professional, partner working remotely in tech
Albert Bridge corridor, SW11 → Milan — Porta Nuova
Battersea Reach new-build to Parque das Nações new-build — both ends operate organised service-lift slots and we needed both booked in lockstep. The Battersea team coordinated the dock-and-lift schedule at quote stage and the move ran against the booked windows. Modern logistics for modern destinations.
The Idris-Lawrence household
Tech professional, design partner
Battersea Reach, SW18 → Lisbon — Parque das Nações
Frequent questions
Things people ask before they book.
A short list of what comes up most. The full set is on the FAQ page.
Battersea and SW8 / SW11 households — Battersea Power Station and Nine Elms residents, Battersea Rise and Latchmere Victorian-terrace families, Albert Bridge corridor mansion-flat owners, Wandsworth / Clapham / Stockwell edges — moving to France, Italy, Spain, or Portugal. Mid-career banking, finance, tech, design, architecture professionals. Family-formation-stage and pre-retirement-still-working households. Corporate-relocation, hybrid-remote, and partial-consolidation moves are the operational shapes we run most often.
We live in Battersea Power Station residences. How does the move-out work?
Power Station residences operate organised delivery-bay slots and service-lift windows. We book the move-out window in advance with the estate management, the load-out crew arrives within the booked slot, the consignment is loaded against the booked time. The written move plan documents the window. No on-spec lorry-parking, no improvisation.
Our corporate mobility office is handling the destination property and visa. Where does your work sit?
On the household side — survey, inventory, packing, customs filings, transit, destination delivery. The corporate mobility office handles destination property, visa, often school fees and other relocation-package elements. We coordinate with them on timing and logistics; they do not run the household-move side, we do.
What does the post-Brexit customs picture look like?
Procedural rather than dramatic. Household goods cross duty-free under Transfer-of-Residence (ToR) relief on all four corridors, provided you have owned the items for six months and are establishing residence at the destination. We file the UK-side ToR1 with HMRC and the destination-country declaration. You provide the residency-evidence pack.
What does the written quote actually cover?
The route, the cubic metres surveyed, customs filings (UK ToR1 + destination-country declaration), packing scope, insurance summary with declared values for high-value pieces, contingency for property-completion slippage or customs query, depot-storage window, destination-side shuttle vehicle if needed, dock-and-lift booking coordination at both ends. Held in writing.
Battersea → Europe
A first conversation costs nothing.
Survey is free. Written quote follows by email. The quote holds.