The inventory clerk on a Greenwich Peninsula hand-back goes to the kitchen extractor canopy first, lifts the mesh filter out, and holds it to the light. On an 18-month let in Upper Riverside that mesh has usually gone amber, and the clerk has the original Knight Dragon photo on a tablet to prove it. That single line item clips more Peninsula deposits than anything else, which is why our end-of-tenancy work here is built around the developer inventory rather than a generic once-over. We are Monster Cleaning Ltd (Companies House 9919639), a London crew running since 2014, charging £30 per cleaner per hour with a 48-hour re-clean guarantee. Ring 0333 555 2076 for a fixed price in about three minutes.
Last updated June 2026. We cover the SE10 0 blocks across North Greenwich and the wider Peninsula, the SE10 0SQ side included, from Upper Riverside and Lower Riverside through to No.4, No.5 and the pocket addresses behind the Design District. This page sits inside the borough directory at End of Tenancy Cleaning Greenwich.
The short version, and what the clerk actually checks
Here is the answer most people want before the detail. End-of-tenancy cleaning on the Greenwich Peninsula starts at £156 for a studio, £207 for a one-bed and £243 for a two-bed, with the larger three-bed laterals at £339. Every job runs to a 57-point agent-approved checklist, scaled to the flat, and carries the 48-hour re-clean guarantee against the check-out report itself.
The reason the Peninsula clean is its own thing is the inventory. When you signed for a flat in one of the Knight Dragon towers, a clerk walked it with a developer photo pack and wrote “as new” against a kitchen and bathroom that had never once been used. At check-out a clerk walks it again and compares line by line against those photos, so you are being marked against a showroom finish rather than a tidy flat. The handle-less units, the AEG or Miele integrated kit, the low-iron shower glass and the sealed floors are all on that pack with close-up shots. Match them, document the match, and the deposit conversation is short.
Why the Design District is not where you live
Worth clearing up, because the address confuses people. The Design District is the cluster of 16 small buildings that opened in September 2021 as London’s first purpose-built creative quarter, masterplanned by HNNA with two buildings each from eight practices, SelgasCano’s yellow ETFE-skinned Canteen food hall among them. It holds studios, workshops, a members’ club and Ravensbourne University, not flats. A few upper-floor live-work units exist and we clean those, but the apartments people actually rent sit in the Knight Dragon residential phases that wrap the rest of the Peninsula.
Those are the buildings that matter for a move-out. Upper Riverside is five SOM-designed towers of 22 to 32 storeys, prism-cut to catch the river light, sharing a residents’ club with a gym, a cinema and one of the highest pools in London. Lower Riverside opened first, back in 2016, and includes The Lighterman, the 23-storey Conran + Partners tower on Pilot Walk, paired with The Waterman around a courtyard, with a 24-hour concierge in the linked Aperture building. Then No.4 and No.5, the later Knight Dragon blocks, and the smaller pocket addresses behind the studios. Different cores, slightly different specs, the same showroom inventory standard across all of them.
You are being marked against a showroom finish, not a tidy flat.
None of this is brand-new history for us. We have cleaned the Peninsula since the first Lower Riverside lets, and the team that works SE10 0 knows which block runs engineered oak and which runs a harder stone floor before we even open the door. If you are unsure which phase your flat sits in, the postcode tells us, and so does the lobby.
What 1 May 2026 changed, and what it did not
The Renters’ Rights Act 2025 came into force on 1 May 2026. Section 21 no-fault evictions are gone, and every assured shorthold tenancy in England has converted to a periodic tenancy, so you can give two months’ notice at any point rather than waiting out a fixed term. You can read the Act itself on legislation.gov.uk.
Here is the part people get wrong. The cleaning side of a move-out did not change. Your protected deposit still has to come back, the agent still has to evidence any deduction, and the check-in benchmark still applies exactly as it did the week before. What changed is timing. The Peninsula was already a high-churn, corporate-relocation rental market built on 12 to 18-month lets, and rolling notice makes those move-outs more frequent and far less predictable. The dull, useful takeaway: book the clean earlier than you used to, because end-of-month and Friday slots in SE10 0 go first.
The licensing question everyone asks about Peninsula flats
Tenants here ask whether their landlord needs a licence, usually because they have read about Greenwich cracking down. The honest answer for a standard Peninsula apartment is no, and it is worth knowing why, so nobody tries to use it as a bargaining chip in a deposit row.
Greenwich runs two private-rented schemes. The selective licensing scheme started on 1 October 2022 and covers single-household and two-sharer lets in five wards only: Plumstead, Glyndon, Shooters Hill, Woolwich Common and Woolwich Riverside. Peninsula ward is not on that list. The separate additional HMO scheme does cover the whole borough, from 1 January 2024 to the end of 2028, but it specifically excludes purpose-built self-contained flats in a block of three or more units, which is precisely what every Knight Dragon apartment is. The full ward list, the fees and the application forms are on the Royal Borough of Greenwich licensing pages.
So a normal one or two-bed on the Peninsula sits outside both schemes. The only case that pulls a flat in is a genuine HMO let to three or more sharers from different households, and the bar there is the council’s, not ours. What does apply on every flat is the building manager’s housekeeping standard and the Knight Dragon hand-back pack, and that is the standard the inventory clerks were briefed on.
The 57 things, built around a developer spec
Every booking runs to the same 57-point agent-approved checklist, scaled to the property and tuned to what the Peninsula clerks flag. End of tenancy is the hand-back clean. A deep clean is for a home you are keeping. A regular clean is upkeep. They are not the same job, and it pays to book the right one.
- Check-in inventory report
- The document the clerk writes on day one against the developer photo pack. It is the benchmark your check-out is judged against, which is why we clean to it rather than to a vague idea of clean.
- End-of-tenancy clean
- Built to pass that inventory and get the deposit back, flat empty, with the 48-hour guarantee on it, at £30 per cleaner per hour.
- Deep clean
- A deep clean resets a flat you are staying in, with no formal standard to hit, also from £30 an hour.
- Regular domestic clean
- A domestic clean is ongoing upkeep, from £22 an hour weekly or £24 fortnightly.
The kitchen, where most of it is won or lost
The integrated oven cavity, racks, the glass between the door panels, seals and fascia are stripped, not wiped. The induction hob, the silicone bead around it and the back-splash get done, and the canopy mesh comes out to soak in the sink while the canopy interior is hand-cleaned. Integrated fridge-freezer, dishwasher and washer-dryer get their interiors, filters, drums and door seals. The handle-less unit faces are wiped including the under-edge that catches finger oil, the quartz worktops polished streak-free, the tap and waste descaled. On the higher Upper Riverside and Lighterman two-beds with an integrated wine fridge, that comes out and gets done too. Kickboards and the floor edge along the run, last.
Bathrooms and the rest of the flat
The walk-in shower screen is cleared on both faces of the low-iron glass with a glazing-safe descaler that will not etch the finish, grout brushed, silicone checked, the heated rail and chrome polished, the WC done inside the rim and behind the pan. Then bedrooms and living space: wardrobe interiors top to bottom, skirting and door tops, the floor-to-ceiling sliding glass on the river side with its frame channels and the balcony door track, the inner face of the glass balustrade, media-unit dust-out, radiator vents. Throughout, the heat-interface unit cupboard is tidied and wiped, since the Peninsula runs on district heating rather than individual boilers, along with switches, sockets, the video-entry panel, every internal door both sides, and the floors mopped or buffed on the way out so there are no prints back in.
Extras we quote separately and never roll in silently: external glazing where access allows, a carpet shampoo on a bedroom that has been carpeted as an aftermarket choice, and a second oven on the rare double-oven three-bed. If the oven is the only thing flagged, standalone oven cleaning covers it from £77, and the river-facing glass that wraps the Upper Riverside flats is what the window cleaning add-on is for.
What it costs, against what the rent already is
| Property | Typical duration | Estimated cost |
|---|---|---|
| Studio (Lighterman, Lower Riverside) | 3-4 hours, 1-2 cleaners | From £156 |
| 1-bed apartment (Upper Riverside, No.4) | 4-5 hours, 2 cleaners | From £207 |
| 2-bed apartment | 5-7 hours, 2 cleaners | From £243 |
| 3-bed lateral (Upper Riverside, No.5) | 6-8 hours, 2 cleaners | From £339 |
| 4-bed or penthouse | 8-10 hours, 2-3 cleaners | From £425 |
| Carpet shampoo add-on | Same visit | £36 a bedroom, £43 a reception |
| Oven-only spec | 1.5-2 hours | From £77 |
Those are full prices with kit, products and travel inside the borough included, no surprise lines on the invoice. They assume a flat in normal lived-in shape; a pet household, a heavy-smoker flat or a let that never saw a clean between tenants costs more, and we say so on the phone rather than after. Hourly cover, where you only want a top-up rather than a full hand-back, is £30 per cleaner per hour with a two-cleaner minimum.
Run it against the rent. A Lighterman studio lets at roughly £1,650 a month and a one-bed at around £1,700, with two-beds landing near £2,500 to £2,800, so the deposit sitting in the scheme is real money. A £207 clean to protect a five-week deposit on a £1,700 flat is not much of a decision. Most tenants only run that maths after a failed check-out, which is the expensive way round. Over the years our work has helped tenants recover £1.2m in deposits that would otherwise have gone on cleaning deductions, and the 97% first-time pass rate is why agents keep us on the books, but the 48-hour re-clean guarantee is the real backstop: if anything is flagged inside that window, we come back free.
Getting a van and a crew into a concierge tower
This is the part that catches people out on the Peninsula, and it is nothing to do with the cleaning. A move-out from a 28th-floor flat in Upper Riverside is a logistics job before it is a cleaning job. The concierge needs the van logged in at the service entrance, the goods lift booked rather than the residents’ core, and on some blocks a certificate of insurance cleared before the day. We carry £5m public liability and send the certificate over when the building manager asks, which the Felicity J Lord office and the Knight Dragon desks usually want before they release a booking.
The kerb does not help. Pilot Walk, Cutter Lane and the run around Peninsula Square are loading-only or footway, so the van goes in the block’s service bay with the concierge clearing it in advance, or the public car park under Peninsula Square if the bay is full. North Greenwich tube on the Jubilee line is two minutes off Peninsula Square, eight to London Bridge, and the IFS Cloud Cable Car and the Thames Clippers pier are on the boardwalk, all of which moves a crew quickly but does nothing for a vanload of kit. Tell us the block, the floor and the access arrangement when you book and we sort the lift and the bay before we arrive.
If your next flat is one borough over, or the tenancy straddles a boundary, we cover the areas around here too. The wider Greenwich Peninsula page carries the full Knight Dragon coverage, and North Greenwich covers the station side. We also do removals if you want the move and the clean on one booking, which helps a lot when several van trips through a single goods lift would otherwise eat the day.
A Lighterman job from April
“I handed back a two-bed on the 14th floor of The Lighterman after a two-year corporate let, relocating with work. I had genuinely never lifted the extractor mesh, and the Miele oven door had a brown film between the glass I could not shift. Two cleaners came on a Tuesday, booked the goods lift through the concierge, stripped the oven and the canopy and did the river-facing glass and the balcony track. Felicity J Lord’s clerk passed it first time and the full deposit landed the following week. Best money I spent on the move.”
Priya, ex-tenant, The Lighterman SE10 0, April 2026
That is a fair picture of the Peninsula pattern: a corporate let, a tower flat, integrated kit nobody had touched, and an agent who checks against the developer pack. What turned it was not the scrubbing alone but the dated photo set that went out with the invoice, which is the part a DIY hand-back never has when the agent pushes back.
Questions we get asked
How much is end-of-tenancy cleaning on the Greenwich Peninsula?
A studio runs £156, a one-bed apartment £207, a two-bed £243, and the larger three-bed laterals in Upper Riverside or No.5 sit at £339. A four-bed or penthouse is £425. If you only need a top-up rather than a full hand-back, the rate is £30 per cleaner per hour, two cleaners minimum.
Do you clean inside Upper Riverside, The Lighterman and No.4 and No.5?
Yes. We are inside the five Upper Riverside towers, The Lighterman and The Waterman on Pilot Walk, and the No.4 and No.5 blocks most weeks. The concierge logs the van in at the service entrance and we work from the goods lift, so the clean never blocks the main residents’ core.
Is the Design District itself residential?
Not really. The 16 buildings that opened in September 2021 are studios, workshops, the SelgasCano Canteen food hall and tenants like Ravensbourne University and the Bureau club. A handful of upper-floor units are live-work. The flats most people mean are the Knight Dragon residential blocks around it, which is what this page is mostly about.
Does my Peninsula flat need an HMO or selective licence?
Almost certainly not. Greenwich runs an additional HMO scheme borough-wide from 1 January 2024 to 31 December 2028, but purpose-built self-contained flats in a block of three or more are excluded, which is exactly what a Peninsula apartment is. The separate selective scheme only covers five Woolwich and Plumstead wards, not Peninsula ward. A genuine multi-sharer let is the only case that changes this.
How long does a one-bed clean take here?
About four to five hours with two cleaners. The integrated extractor canopy, the river-facing glazing and the engineered or stone floor are what set the tail of the job, not the floor area. A studio is closer to three.
Are you safe on the engineered-oak and stone floors?
Yes. We use a wood-safe polish and microfibre on engineered oak, and a neutral-pH stone soap on the harder floors, never an acid or an abrasive pad. The developer sealant marks easily and the clerk runs a low torch across it for haze, so we hand-buff dry on the day.
Can you deal with the integrated extractor canopy?
Always. The mesh filters come out, soak in the kitchen sink, dry and go back, and the canopy interior is hand-cleaned with a soft pad. A canopy nobody has touched in an 18-month let is the single most common reason a Peninsula kitchen fails its check-out.
How do you handle the floor-to-ceiling glazing and balconies?
Inner face as standard, plus the frame channels, the weather-strip and the sliding-door track on the balcony side, and the inner face of the glass balustrade. The outside of the glass on a high floor is a building abseil trade, booked through the block office, so we coordinate rather than promise it.
What’s the 48-hour re-clean guarantee?
If the inventory clerk or the agent flags anything within 48 hours of the clean, we come back and put it right at no charge, as long as nobody has moved in. It runs on every booking, every postcode.
How does parking and access work on the Peninsula?
Most of the kerb on Pilot Walk, Cutter Lane and around Peninsula Square is loading-only, so we use each block’s service bay with the concierge clearing the van in advance. If the bay is full there is the public car park under Peninsula Square. North Greenwich tube and the bus station are a couple of minutes away, which helps the crew but not the van.
Do you handle Thames Water hard-water marks?
Yes. SE10 sits in Thames Water’s very hard zone, around 293 ppm calcium carbonate, so scale builds fast on chrome and the low-iron shower glass. We use a mild descaler on those and never let it near porous stone or the sealed floors, then buff dry.
Do you work with the Peninsula letting agents direct?
We are on the books of 300+ letting agents across London, and on the Peninsula that means Felicity J Lord on Greenwich South Street, Foxtons, Knight Frank and the Greenwich Peninsula in-house lettings desk. Usually the tenant books and we copy the agent on the photo pack; some agents book us on the tenant’s behalf.
Get a price
Ring 0333 555 2076 and we price the job in about three minutes. Give us the block, the floor, the bedroom count and the move-out date, and tell us the access arrangement so we can clear the goods lift and the loading bay. Out of hours, email [email protected] and someone calls you back first thing. A couple of photos of the kitchen and the shower sharpen the quote. And if your check-out is tomorrow, ring anyway, because Tuesday to Thursday we can usually fit a Peninsula flat in at short notice.
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