Garden clearance in London, priced by the load

How much does garden clearance cost in London?

Garden clearance in London with Hausio costs £120 for a quarter load, £180 for a half Luton and £280 for a full load. Shed dismantling adds £60 and stump grinding adds £80. A small back garden with overgrown shrubs, some pots and a broken chair usually fits a quarter to half load: £120–£180.

What fits each load is typical guidance, not a guarantee: the load is confirmed from your photos before booking. Travel and access, including the Congestion Zone, are quoted after postcode review, and there is no separate parking charge.

What does a quarter, half or full load look like?

A Luton is the box van with the extra storage section over the cab. Garden waste is bulky and springy: whole branches and loose brambles take up far more room than the same material cut down, so a garden that is cut and stacked before loading gets more into each load.

Weight matters more in gardens than indoors. A van has a weight limit as well as a size, and damp soil, turf, hardcore, broken concrete and paving slabs reach that limit while the van still looks half empty. Heavy materials are therefore confirmed from photos and rough quantities, such as how many slabs or roughly how many bags of soil, rather than by eye.

To estimate your own garden, photograph it from the back door and from the far end, then each pile, structure and stump. Add a note of anything that is not green waste: pots, plastic, furniture, rubble or treated timber.

Trees, hedges and nesting birds: check before anything is cut

• Tree Preservation Orders: if a tree has a TPO, you need the council's consent before it is cut down, topped, lopped or uprooted.
• Conservation areas: you must give the council six weeks' notice (a section 211 notice) before most work on a tree whose trunk is more than 7.5cm across, measured 1.5m above the ground. Unauthorised work on a protected tree is a criminal offence. Your council's planning team can tell you whether a tree is protected; the rules are in the GOV.UK guidance on tree preservation orders.
• Nesting birds: it is an offence to intentionally take, damage or destroy the nest of any wild bird while it is in use or being built (Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981, section 1). Check hedges and dense shrubs before cutting, especially in spring and summer.
• Japanese knotweed: it is not part of a general green-waste load and has its own disposal rules (GOV.UK). Do not cut it into the general pile. Tell us before booking and we confirm whether it can be included.
• Suspected asbestos: outbuildings built or refurbished before 2000 can have cement roof sheets, cement panels or roofing felt containing asbestos. Do not break them up. Tell us before booking and we confirm what can be done; asbestos is hazardous waste and cannot go in a general load.

Green waste and mixed loads

Green waste on its own (cuttings, leaves, branches and turf) is the simplest load. Mixed loads with pots, plastic, furniture, rubble or treated timber need sorting, so tell us what is in the pile when you send photos. We price by the load from those photos and confirm the total before booking.

Council garden waste collection or a garden clearance?

Some councils run a home collection for garden waste, sometimes for a fee; your council's service is listed through GOV.UK. A garden waste bin suits regular cuttings from a garden that is already maintained. A clearance suits a one-off job that would fill the bin many times over, or one that includes furniture, shed timber or bags of rubbish.

For a couple of large pieces of garden furniture, a council bulky waste collection may be cheaper, as long as you can get them out to the front. In Wandsworth, for example, everything must be at street level and crews cannot collect from inside the property (Wandsworth Council, at the time of writing in November 2026).