Walk Hackney Wick from The Lee Navigation and Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park outwards and the post-war pattern is obvious: 69% of the 2,805 households in E9 live in flats, 31% in houses.
Private renting sits at 28% and owner-occupation at 28%; the first group books appliance clearance at short notice, the second plans it.
Expect often with surface conduit, over precast concrete panels and dense blockwork — measured on the walk in from Hackney Wick (Overground) rather than assumed from a map behind the plaster in E9. 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 — the reality on the streets around The Lee Navigation and Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park is the fault we are called back to undo.
Two streets can behave very differently in Hackney Wick: canal-side studios and warehouse blocks facing the Olympic Park. The quote reflects the street the job is actually on. Hackney Wick is outside the Congestion Charge zone but inside ULEZ; our vehicles are compliant, so nothing is added for it.
Narrow canal bridges, studio blocks with freight lifts and event-day park closures. Nearest station is Hackney Wick (Overground), and two crew and a Luton with a sack barrow; three for American fridge-freezers, range cookers and basement carries.