Walk Queen's Park from Queen's Park itself outwards and the mainly Victorian pattern is obvious: 70% of the 4,160 households in NW6 live in flats, 30% in houses.
Owner-occupation runs at 44% in Queen's Park, so alongside the 36% rental churn there is steady planned work — refurbishments, downsizes and probate clearances booked weeks ahead.
Queen's Park substrates run to lath and plaster over timber studs in Queen's Park, with solid brick on the party and external walls — with 20% social-rented stock locally, block access is agreed with the estate office first. Nothing is drilled until the wall has been sounded, because which crumbles the key and drops the panel, over a plasterboard plug spun into lime plaster — measured on the walk in from Queen's Park (Bakerloo, Overground) rather than assumed from a map is the mistake that costs a NW6 customer twice.
Anyone who knows Queen's Park knows the pattern near Queen's Park itself: the park, Salusbury Road's shops and the Queen's Park Estate cottages. We plan the NW6 visit around it. Queen's Park is outside the Congestion Charge zone but inside ULEZ; our vehicles are compliant, so nothing is added for it.
On access, very narrow estate streets, permit bays and gardens reached only through the house — one reason two crew and a Luton on most strip-outs; three crew and a tipper where the load is rubble, hardcore or soil and weight rather than volume decides the run. Fitters travelling in use Queen's Park (Bakerloo, Overground).