If you are planning a move from Earls Court into W8, the journey may look short on a map, but the real challenge is rarely the miles.

If you need to move fast, the pressure can feel oddly relentless: phone buzzing, boxes everywhere, time slipping away, and a place that suddenly needs to be empty by tonight.

Moving close to Kensington Palace sounds elegant on paper.

Moving near Gloucester Road sounds straightforward until you picture the reality: a busy Zone 1 station, narrow streets, basement flats, loading bays that seem to vanish at exactly the wrong moment, and a van that has to thread its way through Kensington traffic without upsetting half the borough.

If you are planning an office move around Kensington High Street, the biggest challenge is often not the lifting. It is the access.