Walk Enfield Town from Enfield Market Place outwards and the mainly Victorian pattern is obvious: 47% of the 6,789 households in EN2 live in flats, 53% in houses.
Owner-occupation runs at 61% in Enfield Town, so alongside the 29% rental churn there is steady planned work — refurbishments, downsizes and probate clearances booked weeks ahead.
Enfield Town substrates run to lath and plaster over timber studs in EN2, with solid brick on the party and external walls — and with 29% one-person households in Enfield Town, one adult is usually the only pair of hands on site. Nothing is drilled until the wall has been sounded, because a plasterboard plug spun into lime plaster; locally that also means which crumbles the key and drops the panel — which is why London Borough of Enfield kerb rules get settled before the van is loaded is the mistake that costs a EN2 customer twice.
Anyone who knows Enfield Town knows the pattern near Enfield Market Place: market square, Palace Gardens shopping and the New River running through. We plan the EN2 visit around it. Enfield Town is outside the Congestion Charge zone but inside ULEZ; our vehicles are compliant, so nothing is added for it.
On access, town-centre loading windows and one-way system; driveways on the residential streets — 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 Enfield Town (Greater Anglia).