The E15 stock around Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park is mainly Victorian. ONS records 61% flats, 39% houses and 10,391 households in Stratford.
Owner-occupation runs at 28% in Stratford, so alongside the 37% rental churn there is steady planned work — refurbishments, downsizes and probate clearances booked weeks ahead.
Expect precast concrete panels and dense blockwork; locally that also means often with surface conduit — and with 37% of homes here privately rented, it sets the booking date as often as the job does behind the plaster in E15. That is why fixings are picked in the room rather than off a van shelf, and why drilling blind into a panel with reinforcement or a buried cable behind it on these streets — measured on the walk in from Stratford (Central, Jubilee, Elizabeth line, DLR) rather than assumed from a map is the fault we are called back to undo.
Anyone who knows Stratford knows the pattern near Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park: westfield, the Olympic Park and a skyline of new residential towers. We plan the E15 visit around it. Stratford is outside the Congestion Charge zone but inside ULEZ; our vehicles are compliant, so nothing is added for it.
On access, every tower needs a booked goods lift and loading bay; estate roads are camera-controlled — one reason one technician and a van-mounted hot-water pressure washer for most driveways; two on larger block-paving jobs where re-sanding is included, since brushing sand in is a second task run alongside the wash. Fitters travelling in use Stratford (Central, Jubilee, Elizabeth line, DLR).