Leaving a flat or house in Lower Sydenham
Around Lower Sydenham station and Bell Green, a lot of the rented homes are flats built on old industrial land: the Dylon dye works by the station and the gasworks site at Bell Green.
Our end of tenancy clean for a flat here is £156 for a studio, £207 for one bedroom and £243 for two, and a family house is £339 with three bedrooms or £425 with four. The price is fixed by bedrooms, and the oven and carpets are added only if you ask.
Last updated October 2026.
For an exact figure, enter your postcode and bedrooms in the calculator at the top of this page, or phone 0333 555 2076 (8am to 7pm, every day of the week).
Lower Sydenham homes compared
The housing splits into a few clear types, and each one has its own weak spot at check-out. The table shows the fixed price and where a clerk tends to look hardest.
| Home | Price | What the clerk tends to pick on |
|---|---|---|
| Studio in a newer block near the station | £156 | Integrated kitchen units, the extractor, the shower screen |
| One-bed flat at Dylon Factory Works or Dylon Riverside | £207 | Balcony door track and glass, hob, built-in appliances |
| Two-bed flat in a Bell Green block | £243 | Two sets of wardrobes, bathroom scale, the fridge seal |
| Three-bed house on the older streets | £339 | Stairs, skirting and doors, the back kitchen, the garden door |
| Four-bed house | £425 | Extra bathroom, loft or extension rooms |
| One room in a shared house | £30 per cleaner per hour | Your room and your share of the kitchen and bathroom |
The Dylon flats are the largest group of recent lets. Crest Nicholson built the first phase on the old dye works in 2016 and 2017, with 223 apartments. Weston Homes’ second phase, Dylon Riverside, adds 254 homes of one to three bedrooms on a 4.6-acre site, under a consent granted in March 2021.
The site sits between Lower Sydenham station, Station Approach and Worsley Bridge Road. Flats this new are usually described on the check-in report as new or as new, so grease on a hob or a smear on a balcony door shows.
At Bell Green, the gasworks made gas until 1969, and a retail park now covers most of the land. A scheme of 156 flats was started next to it in 2010.
The two big gasholders were dismantled in 2020; Barratt London bought that site in 2021, and Lewisham Council has resolved to grant permission for Lightmakers, 262 homes in six buildings of five to fourteen storeys beside the Grade II listed Livesey Memorial Hall. Those flats are not built yet. Away from the new blocks, the streets are mostly lower-rise houses, and these are the three and four-bed lets in the table.
The two big gasholders at Bell Green were dismantled in 2020, and 262 homes are planned on the site.
Lewisham or Bromley: which licensing rules apply
Lower Sydenham sits on a borough boundary. The former Dylon works by the station is inside the London Borough of Bromley. Bell Green and most of the streets around it are in Lewisham. The licensing rules on each side are different.
In Lewisham, selective licensing started on 1 July 2024 and covers nearly every privately rented home in the borough; the council left out only a few areas, such as Telegraph Hill and parts of Blackheath. The landlord pays the licence fee, £640 at the basic rate.
A home let to three or more people from two or more households also needs an HMO licence. Lewisham’s selective licensing page has the details. In Bromley there is no selective or additional scheme, and only the national mandatory licence for shared houses of five or more people applies.
For the check-out itself, the licence makes no difference. The clerk compares the home with the check-in report and allows for fair wear and tear. What a licence does mean is that the council has the address on file, and landlords on a licence tend to keep a careful inventory.
Hard water from the Sydenham East zone
SE26 5AD is in Thames Water’s Sydenham East supply zone. Thames Water’s 2025 report gives an average hardness of 254 mg/l as calcium carbonate there, with readings between 245 and 260. That is hard water.
A shower screen used for a year without a squeegee goes cloudy, the taps grow a white rim and the kettle scales up. All of it shows on a check-out report, and all of it comes off with the right descaler and some time. We descale on every clean here at no extra charge.
What the clean includes
The cleaner follows our 57-point checklist. In the kitchen that means every cupboard and drawer inside and out, the hob, the extractor hood and filter, the splashback, the fridge and freezer, the washing machine drawer and door seal, and the sink and taps descaled.
In the bathroom it means the screen, tiles, grout, bath, basin, toilet, mirror and the fan cover. Through the rest of the home: skirting, doors and frames, radiators, light switches, the inside of wardrobes, sills and window glass from the inside, then the floors vacuumed and mopped.
In a new-build flat we also clean the balcony door runners and the inside of integrated appliances, because a clerk opens them. In a house we clean the stairs, banisters and the back door.
Our cleaners are vetted with a face-to-face interview, insured and trained on the checklist. We started in 2014, more than 300 letting agents work with us, and tenants have recovered £1.2m in deposits after our cleans. Our Google rating is 4.7. If the letting agent or inventory clerk reports a problem within 48 hours, we go back and clean it again at no cost.
Ovens, carpets and booking
The oven is always an extra. Added to the clean it costs £31 for a single or a single wide oven, and £62 for a double or a 90cm range cooker; the oven cleaning page covers a standalone oven clean.
Carpets added to the same booking are £29 per bedroom, £36 per living room, £47 for a through lounge, £35 per flight of stairs, £20 for a hallway and £8 for a landing. The carpet cleaning page covers them on their own. If you are moving out at the same time, see our removals page.
When you book, tell us the floor, whether there is a lift, and how the cleaner gets into the building, since many of the newer blocks have fob entry. The home should be empty, with power and hot water still on. Where parking has to be paid for, we add the actual cost to the quote.
Lower Sydenham station is on Southeastern’s Hayes line in fare zone 4, and New Beckenham is the next stop towards Hayes. To the west, Sydenham has its own station on the Overground. Every area we cover in the borough is on the Lewisham end of tenancy cleaning page.
Lower Sydenham end of tenancy FAQs
My flat is in the old Dylon works. Is it Lewisham or Bromley?
The Dylon site by Lower Sydenham station is in Bromley. Bromley has no selective licensing, so a flat let to one household there needs no council licence. Check your council tax bill if you are unsure.
Does Lewisham’s selective licensing change what I have to clean?
No. It is the landlord’s licence. You return the home in the condition shown on the check-in report, allowing for fair wear and tear.
My balcony faces the railway. Do you clean the outside of the glass?
We clean the glass from inside and the balcony door, its frame and runners. Outside glass above ground level is not part of the clean.
How much do you charge for a two-bed flat near Bell Green?
£243, fixed. Add the oven or carpets only if your tenancy needs them.
Can my landlord insist on a professional clean?
Not as a term of the tenancy, because the Tenant Fees Act 2019 bans it. The home has to be as clean as it was at check-in, and the landlord can claim from the deposit if it is not.