Removals from East Sussex to Europe

A European move from East Sussex starts the same way a local one does: somebody looks at the house, measures the volume properly, and writes down what is going. Everything after that — the route, the vehicle, the paperwork — follows from that inventory.

Where moves from here actually go

Four destinations account for most of it. The four country pages below are written as route pairs, because that is how the job runs: out of East Sussex, through Kent, and on.

The route out of the county

Whichever crossing we use, the first leg is domestic and slower than people expect. From the coast it is the A27 east through Polegate and Pevensey, or the A259 through Bexhill and Hastings. From the Wealden towns it is the A21 north through Battle and Hurst Green. Both feed the M20 and M2 corridor across Kent to Folkestone for the tunnel or Dover for the ferry.

From there it is Calais or Coquelles and the French motorway network — the A16 and A26 south, then whichever way the destination takes you. It is a well-worn road and the vehicles that run it do so constantly; what varies is the paperwork and the loading plan, not the geography.

Dedicated vehicle or part-load

A dedicated vehicle

Your load, your lorry, your dates. This is the right answer for a full household with a firm completion and a firm move-in, and for anything where the contents are valuable enough that you want the fewest possible handlings.

A part-load, or groupage

Your goods share a vehicle with other consignments going the same way, so you pay for the space you take. It suits smaller households, second homes being furnished, and anyone whose date at the far end can flex. The trade-off is a delivery window rather than a fixed day, and we will be honest about which end of that window is realistic.

Customs, since Brexit

A household move into the EU is now a customs movement, and the paperwork is real work rather than a formality. What it needs, in practice: a detailed inventory listing what is in every carton, evidence that you are transferring residence rather than importing goods commercially, and the destination country's own process — each of France, Spain, Italy and Portugal handles the relief differently.

We prepare the documentation from the inventory and tell you what we need from you and when. Where a country requires something you have to obtain personally, we say so early rather than discovering it at the border.

Collecting from elsewhere in the UK

Moves out of East Sussex frequently pick up a second address on the way — a flat in London, a parent's house in Birmingham or Manchester, a storage unit in Bristol, or contents still in Leeds, Glasgow or Edinburgh. If your household is split across two places, say so in the brief. It changes the route and the timing, and it is far better costed at the start.

What to send us

Both addresses, a sense of the volume, your rough dates, and whether you want a dedicated vehicle or would consider a part-load. Storage at either end, if you need it. From that we can tell you what the move looks like — and the written quote follows a survey. Start on the quote page, or read how the local side works on house removals.