Walk Thamesmead from Southmere Lake outwards and the post-war pattern is obvious: 47% of the 7,133 households in SE28 live in flats, 53% in houses.
Private renting sits at 28% and owner-occupation at 32%; the first group books building waste clearance at short notice, the second plans it.
Thamesmead substrates run to precast concrete panels and dense blockwork in Thamesmead, often with surface conduit — and with 28% of homes here privately rented, it sets the booking date as often as the job does. Nothing is drilled until the wall has been sounded, because in SE28, drilling blind into a panel with reinforcement or a buried cable behind it — the pattern behind 7,133 households inside the SE28 neighbourhood is the mistake that costs a SE28 customer twice.
Two streets can behave very differently in Thamesmead: brutalist canals and lakes, now under one of London's biggest regeneration programmes. The quote reflects the street the job is actually on. Thamesmead is outside the Congestion Charge zone but inside ULEZ; our vehicles are compliant, so nothing is added for it.
On access, deck-access blocks with limited lifts, long walkway carries and estate service roads — 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 Abbey Wood (Elizabeth line).
