End of tenancy cleaning in Brockwell Park, from £156

The park sets the boundary, not the postcode

Brockwell Park is 50 hectares of grass, and the streets around it sit in three different postcodes and two boroughs. The southern edge by Brockwell Park Gardens is SE24. Swing round to Brixton Water Lane and you are in SW2. Carry on to the Tulse Hill and Norwood Road side and the SE27 boundary is a few minutes away, with the Dulwich Road frontage brushing the edge of Southwark. One green space, four roads round it, and a check-out clerk who treats every one of them the same way.

That matters because the deposits here are large. A one-bed flat in Herne Hill rents at around £1,800 a month and a two-bed near the park at about £2,150, so five weeks deposit on that two-bed is roughly £2,480. Period houses on Burbage Road or Casino Avenue push well past £3,500. When the pot is that deep, an agent does not hesitate to dock £180 for a half-clean oven or £350 for carpet treatment.

What ties the area together is the green space and what sits in it: the art-deco lido on the north side, the Grade II* Brockwell Hall on the hill, the walled garden, the clocktower and the miniature railway that runs at weekends. For a tenant that scenery is the selling point that pushed the rent up in the first place, and it is also why the agent on the other side of the deposit holds the line on condition. A flat that commands a park view is let, re-let and inspected to a standard that matches the rent.

This page is about the clean, not the postcode lottery. We cover the full ring of streets that border the park, the conversions and mansion blocks that look onto it, and the newer flats behind Shakespeare Road. Parent borough hub: end of tenancy cleaning in Lambeth. Last updated April 2026.

Walking the perimeter: which streets we cover

The simplest way to describe our patch is to walk the park boundary. Start on the south side at Brockwell Park Gardens and Brockwell Avenue, the SE24 9 cluster of Edwardian houses that look straight onto the grass. Round the south-east corner you pick up Rosendale Road, Burbage Road and Casino Avenue, the bigger period terraces running toward the Dulwich border. The Dulwich Road frontage on the north-east runs the gated and mansion-block developments, including Brockwell Gate and the older blocks. Carry on to Railton Road, Shakespeare Road, Mayall Road and Effra Parade on the Herne Hill side, then close the loop at Brixton Water Lane on the north-west and Norwood Road and Tulse Hill on the west, feeding down toward West Norwood.

Most of our jobs come from a short list of street types around that ring.

• Brockwell Park Gardens and Brockwell Avenue, the SE24 9 houses on the southern edge
• Rosendale Road, Burbage Road and Casino Avenue, the larger Edwardian terraces to the south-east
• Dulwich Road, with Brockwell Gate and the mansion blocks facing the park
• Railton Road, Shakespeare Road, Mayall Road and Effra Parade on the Herne Hill side
• Brixton Water Lane and the SW2 1 streets on the north-west boundary
• Norwood Road and Tulse Hill, dropping down toward West Norwood and the SE27 line
• Half Moon Lane and the village core behind Herne Hill station
• Poets Corner, the Spenser, Shakespeare, Milton and Chaucer Roads cluster
• Coldharbour Lane and the Hinton Road streets leading up from Loughborough Junction

If your road is not on that list but you can see the park from a window, we almost certainly cover it. Ring the office and ask.

Conservation-area period stock and why it traps dirt

Much of the housing round the park sits inside the Brockwell Park Conservation Area, and that is not a planning footnote. It means the period detail is still there. Original sash windows, deep cornicing, picture rails, ceiling roses, lath-and-plaster ceilings, tiled hearths and wide skirting all survived the decades. Period stock around the park hides dirt in a hundred places a domestic vacuum never reaches. The agents round here know exactly where that dirt sits, because they read the same check-out reports we do.

The Victorian conversions on Brixton Water Lane and Effra Parade carry sash windows with years of grit caked into the runners, working chimneys with sooty register plates, and original tiled hearths. The Edwardian houses on Brockwell Park Gardens, Rosendale Road and Burbage Road add bay windows with leaded lights, parquet floors and the odd servant bell nobody has rung since 1925. These are lovely flats to live in and a slog to hand back clean, because every one of those features is a place a clerk can point at.

Period stock around the park hides dirt in a hundred places a domestic vacuum never reaches.

Then there is the newer layer, and it is not the easy option people assume. The flats behind Shakespeare Road and the build-to-rent blocks on the Brixton fringe come with integrated appliances, soft-close drawers, induction hobs and rainfall showers, and every one of those hides grease and limescale as well as a Victorian range cooker does. The inventories on the modern flats are if anything stricter, because the clerk expects a near-showroom finish.

So we treat the two differently. Sashes, parquet, hardwood and tiled hearths get a gentler hand and the right products. The modern units get the spray arms, filters and seals pulled apart. Same checklist, different touch.

The deposit rules after the Renters’ Rights Act

The Renters’ Rights Act 2025 abolished Section 21 no-fault evictions and turned assured shorthold tenancies into periodic ones. For a tenant near Brockwell Park the practical change is that you control the move-out date, not the agent. Check-out inspections have not loosened off the back of it. If anything the clerks are tighter, because they know a contested deduction now gets read more carefully by the deposit scheme.

Your deposit sits with one of three protection schemes, and a few plain terms decide whether you get it back in full.

Deposit protection scheme

By law your deposit is held in one of three approved schemes: TDS, DPS or mydeposits. Each runs a free dispute service if you and the agent cannot agree on deductions.

Check-in inventory

The report and photos taken the day you moved in. The check-out is judged against this, so the standard you have to hit is the condition the flat was in at the start, not perfect.

Fair wear and tear

Normal ageing the landlord cannot charge you for. A worn carpet is wear and tear; a carpet left dirty is a cleaning deduction, and cleaning is the single most common deduction at check-out.

Adjudication

If you dispute a deduction, an independent adjudicator at the scheme decides on the evidence. A professional clean with a paid, itemised invoice is the strongest piece of paper you can hand them.

Shelter’s guidance on deposit returns is worth ten minutes if you want to know where you stand before the clerk arrives. The short version: clean to the inventory, keep the invoice, and you remove the easiest reason an agent has to hold money back.

Lambeth licensing on the park fringe

From 1 September 2025, Lambeth’s Phase 2 selective licensing scheme requires every privately rented property let to a single household or two unrelated sharers to hold a licence. The Herne Hill and Loughborough Junction ward, which covers most of the streets on the park’s north side, is one of the 19 wards in scope, and the scheme runs to 31 August 2030. Lambeth’s additional HMO licensing covers the whole borough and catches any property shared by three or more people from two or more households.

Why does a licence change anything for a clean? Because licensed properties get inspected, and inspections look at repair, hygiene and presentation. A landlord who keeps a tidy licence file tends to run a tidy check-out, and the agents managing those portfolios, Pedder on Half Moon Lane, Winkworth on Railton Road, Foxtons in Brixton, treat the inventory as the backstop. Anything that would flag on a licensing inspection will flag at check-out too.

The clean itself does not change because a flat is licensed. What changes is how carefully condition gets documented, which raises the bar for the hand-back. A paid invoice from us is the cleanest evidence trail you can put on top of that file.

One more thing worth knowing. The licensing inspection and the check-out are run by different people for different reasons, but they look at the same surfaces: the kitchen, the bathroom, the windows, the floors. Get those right for one and you have usually got them right for both.

What a check-out clerk flags on a park-side flat

Inventory clerks working for Pedder, Winkworth, Foxtons, Hamptons, Chestertons, Kinleigh Folkard & Hayward and the smaller independents like Keating Estates and Petermans work from a near-identical mental list. These are the items we see flagged most often on check-outs around the park.

1. Oven door glass, including the gap between the panes where roasting fat collects
2. Extractor filter, grease-saturated and rarely touched by tenants
3. Hob, with burnt-on rings or an induction surface left smeared
4. Fridge seals and the drip tray behind the salad drawer
5. Washing machine detergent drawer and the rubber door seal
6. Limescale on shower heads, screens and basin taps
7. Toilet, behind the pan and around the base flange
8. Tile grout in bathrooms, where discolouration is treated as cleaning not damage
9. Window runners, especially the original sashes that come with this stock
10. Skirting board tops and the gap behind the radiators
11. Cornicing, ceiling roses and picture rails, which the period flats round here almost all have
12. High-level dust on top of kitchen cupboards and wardrobes
13. Parquet and hardwood floors, where mopping streaks and edge dirt show up
14. Behind the front door, the hooks, the frame and the intercom panel

None of that is a secret. It is just tedious, and it is the part tenants run out of time for on the last day.

What the clean covers, room by room

Our 57-point checklist was built by sitting down with letting agents and reading their actual check-out reports, so it maps onto the clerk’s clipboard rather than a generic cleaning template. Here is how it breaks down.

Kitchen

• Oven deep clean: racks, trays, glass door inside and out, seals, and the gap between the door panes
• Hob and extractor: induction surface polished or gas burners lifted and degreased, filter soaked or replaced
• Splashback, tiles and grout degreased, with steam where the tile work has yellowed
• Fridge and freezer defrosted, shelves and seals scrubbed, drip tray cleared, exterior polished
• Dishwasher filter pulled and cleaned, spray arms checked for limescale, door seal wiped
• Washing machine drum, detergent drawer, filter and rubber seal
• Microwave inside and out, plate and vents
• Cupboard interiors emptied and wiped, including under any drawer lining
• Worktops, sink and taps descaled and polished, plug-hole cleared
• Bin area, kickboards and floor, including under appliances we can move safely

Bathrooms

• Bath, shower screen, head, hose, tray and tile grout descaled and polished
• Toilet bowl, rim, behind the pan, cistern lid, seat hinges and base flange
• Basin, taps, mirror and pedestal
• Tile grout scrubbed, and surface mould on silicone treated
• Extractor fan housing and grille
• Floor mopped, edges hand-cleaned, behind the toilet base
• Cabinets and shelves emptied and wiped

Bedrooms and living areas

• Sash window runners and frames, hand-cleaned, because the Victorian and Edwardian sashes round the park almost always have years of dust caked in
• Bay window leaded lights and reveals, common on the Burbage Road and Rosendale Road houses
• Internal glass cleaned both sides where reachable
• Cornicing, ceiling roses and picture rails dusted top-down
• Skirting boards, architraves and door frames wiped, not just dusted
• Radiators front, top, sides and behind where access allows
• Built-in wardrobes emptied, interiors wiped, tracks cleaned
• Carpets vacuumed thoroughly, with deep extraction available as an add-on
• Hardwood and parquet floors cleaned with the right product, not soaked
• Original fireplaces, hearths and register plates where present

Throughout

• All internal doors, tops, sides, bottom edges and frames
• Hallway tiled or wood floors, edges and thresholds included
• Stairs, banisters, spindles and newel posts
• Loft hatches, meter cupboards and storage cupboards
• Front door internally, the letterplate and the intercom panel
• A final smell-test of the kitchen, fridge, drains and bathrooms

Light fittings, switches and sockets get done in every room. It is not glamorous. It is what passes a check-out.

What it costs and how the booking runs

Pricing for SE24, SW2 and SE27 properties on the Brockwell Park ring. Period flats with original sashes, parquet or heavy soft furnishings sit toward the top of each bracket. The newer flats behind Shakespeare Road or in Brockwell Gate sit toward the bottom.

Every price includes the cleaners, all materials and equipment, and the 48-hour re-clean guarantee. There is no separate parking surcharge inside the controlled zones round the park; we factor that in when we quote.

Those numbers are the reason agents accept our invoice. We are on the books of 300+ letting agents and have helped tenants recover £1.2m in deposits that would otherwise have gone on cleaning deductions, and the 97% first-time pass rate is what keeps that relationship alive.

Booking is deliberately plain.

1. Call 0333 555 2076 or email [email protected] with the address, the number of bedrooms and your check-out date
2. We quote a fixed price on the same call, with no surveyor visit and no upsell
3. You confirm by email and pay a 20% deposit to hold the date
4. The team arrives fully equipped and works through the 57-point checklist
5. If the clerk flags anything cleaning-related, we come back free inside 48 hours

Add-ons the park-side flats actually need

The end of tenancy clean covers the bulk of a check-out, but a few jobs around the park come up often enough to flag.

• Oven cleaning is the most common standalone add-on, and the one item a clerk checks first
• Carpet cleaning matters for any pet household or heavy-traffic flat; the part-carpeted bedrooms common round here almost always need extraction to pass
• Upholstery cleaning is worth booking on a furnished let, where the sofa and mattresses go back to the agent on the inventory
• Window cleaning handles the sash exteriors that festival and lido weekends leave coated in dust, a regular deduction trigger on the park frontages
• Floor cleaning covers the parquet and hardwood that the conversions are full of
• Deep cleaning is the option when you are not at check-out yet but the flat has slipped
• Removals can be booked alongside the clean, and we will line the two slots up so the flat is empty before we start

Book a couple of these with the main clean and we coordinate the day rather than sending two separate crews.

Moving out around the lido and the festivals

The park is the best thing about living here and the most annoying thing about moving out of here. On a hot weekend the crowds for Brockwell Lido and the events on the open ground fill every side street, and the parking round the south and west edges is the worst part of any park-side job. If your check-out lands on a festival weekend in late spring, book the clean and the van slot early, because the controlled zones tighten and a removals lorry has nowhere to sit.

There is a practical knock-on for the clean. Festival weekends and the lido season throw dust and grass seed at the buildings facing the green, so the front windows look grimy within days even when they were spotless. That outside grime is usually a landlord matter rather than a tenant deduction, unless the inventory specifically logged the windows as clean at the start. The internal sills and runners are on you, and those are in the clean as standard.

Timing aside, the park-side flats are reachable without a car. Herne Hill station runs fast to Victoria and the City, the buses on Norwood Road and Dulwich Road circle the park, and most of our crews arrive on those rather than fight for a bay. We will tell you straight when a job is a walk from the bus stop and when we can get the van close.

The parking round the south and west edges is the worst part of any park-side job.

We clean the same streets on every side of the park and in the neighbourhoods that feed into it, all to the same checklist.

• Herne Hill, the village core and station on the park’s west side
• Brixton, north up Effra Road and the SW2 streets
• Tulse Hill, west of the park toward the gyratory
• West Norwood, south down Norwood Road into SE27
• Dulwich, east across the Southwark border
• Loughborough Junction, north up Coldharbour Lane and Hinton Road
• Clapham and Streatham, the wider SW patch we cover
• Up to the parent Lambeth end of tenancy hub for the whole borough

Questions park-side tenants ask us

How much does end of tenancy cleaning cost around Brockwell Park?

Studios from £156, one-beds from £207, two-beds from £243, three-beds from £339 and four-beds from £425. Period conversions with original sashes and parquet sit at the upper end of each bracket, while the modern flats at Brockwell Gate or on Shakespeare Road sit lower.

Do you guarantee my deposit?

We cannot guarantee what an inventory clerk will find; nobody honest can. What we guarantee is the work, so if your agent flags anything cleaning-related within 48 hours we come back and put it right at no extra cost. That guarantee and our 97% first-time pass rate are why agents like Pedder, Winkworth and Foxtons accept our paid invoice.

Are carpets included in the price?

Vacuuming and surface cleaning are included; deep extraction is an add-on. Most period flats round the park have part-carpeted bedrooms and stripped boards in the living rooms, so a typical carpet add-on for a two-bed runs £115. Pet-occupied or heavy-traffic flats almost always need extraction to pass.

Do I need to be in the property during the clean?

No. Most clients hand us keys through the agent or leave a key safe code. Pedder, Winkworth and Foxtons in Herne Hill all allow this, and we have working relationships with the lettings teams.

What about the oven?

It is always included in an end of tenancy clean: racks, trays, glass and the gap between the door panes. Standalone oven-only quotes start at £77 for a single, £110 for a double, £114 for a 90cm range, £115 for 110cm and over, and £130 for an AGA.

Do you clean inside the windows?

Yes, all reachable internal glass plus the runners and frames. The sash windows round Herne Hill and Tulse Hill almost always have years of dust packed into the runners, so we hand-clean those. External window cleaning above the ground floor is quoted separately.

How long does a typical Brockwell Park clean take?

A one-bed conversion takes four to five hours with two cleaners. A two-bed runs five to seven hours with two or three. A four-bed Edwardian house off Rosendale Road or Burbage Road is a full day with four cleaners.

Do you clean inside the fridge and freezer?

Yes, fully defrosted, so please switch the unit off 24 hours in advance. We scrub the shelves and seals and clear the drip tray.

What if the property has a Lambeth selective licence?

It makes no difference to the clean itself. Lambeth’s selective licensing scheme covers the Herne Hill and Loughborough Junction ward under Phase 2, live since 1 September 2025, and the result is that landlords here document condition more carefully than ever. A professional clean with a paid invoice is the cleanest evidence trail you can hand back.

Do you cover the Brixton Water Lane side of the park?

Yes. We cover the full ring, the SE24, SW2 1 and SE27 streets that bound Brockwell Park, from the walled garden side to the lido side.

Will my agent accept your invoice as evidence?

Yes. Every clean is invoiced on Monster Cleaning Ltd headed paper, Companies House 9919639, with the address, date, scope and price. The deposit schemes TDS, DPS and mydeposits all accept this format.

Can you do a same-day or next-day clean?

Often yes, so call the office. Saturday slots and end-of-month slots in SE24 fill up first, especially around the Lambeth Country Show and the festival weekends in May and June.

My flat overlooks the lido and the windows are filthy from festival weekends. Is that a deduction?

External window dirt is not usually a tenant deduction unless the inventory specifically logged the windows as clean at the start. The internal sills and runners are a different matter, and those are included in the clean as standard.

Do you deal with mould around the bathroom?

Yes. We treat surface mould on grout and silicone as cleaning. Structural damp, or stained silicone that needs replacing, is a landlord repair rather than a clean, and we will tell you on the day which is which.

Do you handle period properties differently?

Yes. Original sashes, parquet, hardwood, lath-and-plaster, ceiling roses and tiled hearths all need different products and a gentler hand. Our crews have worked the Herne Hill conversion stock for over a decade.

What is your re-clean guarantee?

If your agent or check-out clerk flags anything cleaning-related within 48 hours of the clean, we return and rectify it at no charge. Shelter’s guidance on deposit returns is a useful read if you want the wider picture.

Are you insured?

Yes, full public liability and treatment-risk cover, with certificates available on request.

Book your Brockwell Park clean

Call 0333 555 2076 or email [email protected] with your address and check-out date, and we will come back the same day with a fixed price. We work seven days a week, take last-minute bookings where slots allow, and stand behind every clean with the 48-hour guarantee.