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Controlled Parking Zones cover the whole neighbourhood and enforcement is close to constant. Loading bays are few and short, so a suspension arranged through the council is usually the only workable option, and it needs ten working days.

Any firm quoting for a move here should be arranging that as a matter of course. If a quote does not mention parking at all, treat it as incomplete.

ULEZ applies here as it does across London, so the van needs to be compliant or the daily charge is payable.

The Congestion Charge zone starts a little to the east, around Edgware Road, and does not cover Paddington itself. If the other end of your move is inside the zone, settle who pays the charge before the day.

Upper-floor flats in converted terraces are the usual challenge: a communal front door, half-landings and a staircase that turns twice. Lifts are the exception rather than the rule. Much of the area is in a conservation area with listed frontages, which rules out hoisting through windows in a lot of buildings.

Praed Street and Edgware Road are busy with restrictions at peak times, and the residential streets and mews off them are narrow, often one-way and awkward for a long vehicle.

Traffic around the station is heavy from early morning until well into the evening, and weekends bring their own congestion rather than relief.

A mid-morning weekday start, once the commuter peak has cleared, gives the best chance of an uninterrupted load.