Man and Van West Drayton — Removals & Waste Collection UB7

West Drayton has changed fast since the Elizabeth line arrived. Around the station and along the Grand Union Canal there's a wave of newer apartment developments — including the Drayton Garden Village scheme off Porters Way — sitting alongside the older village heart around The Green and St Martin's Church, and established residential streets running down towards Harmondsworth and Sipson. Add the M4 at junction 4 and Heathrow ten minutes away, and it's one of the busiest corners of Hillingdon for people moving in and out.

New-build apartment moves are their own discipline, and we do a lot of them here. That means booking the lift with your managing agent, using the designated loading bay rather than gambling on street parking, protecting communal hallways, and timing the job so we're not fighting the school run on Station Road. Plenty of streets near the station are permit-controlled, so tell us your block and we'll plan access before the van turns up — it's the difference between a two-hour move and a four-hour one. For commuters relocating along the Elizabeth line, we regularly run moves between West Drayton and Hayes, Southall, Ealing and central London.

Waste is the other half of what we do in UB7. End-of-tenancy clear-outs from rented flats, old sofas and mattresses that won't fit in the bin store, and garden or garage waste from the older houses — we collect it same-day and dispose of it through licensed facilities, so nothing ends up fly-tipped along the canal. Hillingdon's own recycling centre (the Harefield Civic Amenity Site on New Years Green Lane, UB9) is resident-only — HillingdonFirst card or proof of address, with van visits capped; if you'd rather not do the runs yourself, our waste removal team loads everything for you. New to the process? Read our London rubbish clearance guide or see the neighbouring Uxbridge and Hillingdon pages.

West Drayton and Yiewsley sit at the south of the borough, where the new-build blocks around the station meet older terraces. It is also the part of Hillingdon furthest from the borough tip, which changes the maths on doing it yourself.

Everything below is priced by the space the load fills and the labour involved, not by the hour, and the price is fixed after a photo or video walk-through before anyone sets off. Every figure includes two people, all the loading and lifting, and the disposal and recycling fees. No skip, no permit, and no VAT to add — the price shown is the price paid.

Rubbish and waste removal in UB7, by the load

From UB7 the round trip to Harefield is the longest in the borough. Hillingdon residents can now use Space Waye in Feltham instead, which is closer — but for anything that will not fit in a car it is usually the fuel and the Saturday that decide it, not the gate fee.

House and flat clearance in West Drayton

Man and van hire in West Drayton

Moves and collections that are not clearances are charged hourly, with a two-hour minimum. Longer bookings and full moves are quoted as a fixed all-in price instead.

Garden and green waste in UB7

Heavy builders’ and DIY waste is priced by weight instead, from £95 for up to 100kg, because rubble and furniture do not weigh the same per cubic yard.

Items that carry an eco fee

A handful of items carry a legally required specialist disposal cost. These are added to the load prices above, or charged on their own from the £95 minimum call-out:

The London Borough of Hillingdon runs a paid bulky waste collection across UB7, and for a small qualifying job it is good value. It is charged per collection slot, not per item:

One slot covers a single fridge or freezer on its own, or up to six other items such as a sofa, bed, mattress or wardrobe. The price is per slot rather than per item — so one mattress on its own still costs the full £53.

The four limits that catch people out

1. The crew will not come inside. Everything must be at the boundary of your property, at ground-floor level and accessible, by 6am on the day. Miss that window and the crew moves on. If you cannot get the wardrobe down the stairs yourself, the service does not help you.

2. Six items per slot, and a fridge counts as the whole slot. A garage, loft or end-of-tenancy clear-out runs past that immediately, and each further slot is another £53.

3. It takes no building or DIY waste. No rubble, no soil, no garden waste, no tyres, no hazardous items. After a refit, the council route is not available to you at all.

4. It is booked, not same-day. Collections run Monday to Friday and you take the next free date. At busy periods that can be several days out — worth knowing if you are clearing before a completion or a tenancy handover.

Full detail, including the current item list and the exclusions, is in our Hillingdon bulky waste guide.

Your nearest household recycling centre is Harefield Civic Amenity Site at New Years Green Lane, Harefield, UB9 6LX. If you are doing the job yourself it is worth knowing how it works before you load the car — we have written the full Harefield Civic Amenity Site guide, but the essentials are these.

It is open seven days a week, 8am to 4pm, last entry 3.45pm.

It is free for Hillingdon residents, but cars need a HillingdonFirst card and vans need two forms of ID and are capped at 12 visits a year. It is household waste only — no trade waste.

Since 15 July, Hillingdon residents can also use Space Waye in Feltham, which is open seven days and much closer for the south of the borough.

The council specifically asks residents not to turn right into New Years Green Lane from Harvil Road — the junction backs up badly at weekends.

The catch that is unique to this borough is geography: the tip is up at Harefield, so “free” costs more the further south of the borough you live. From the bottom of Hillingdon a round trip plus a van permit is often dearer in fuel and a Saturday morning than a collection is.

Disposal and recycling are handled as part of the fixed price when we do it instead, with waste transfer paperwork on request so your duty of care is covered. Before booking any collection — with us or anyone — ask for the registered carrier’s details and verify them on the Environment Agency public register.