Walk Kingston Vale and Coombe from Richmond Park's Robin Hood Gate outwards and the post-war pattern is obvious: 12% of the 2,354 households in KT2 live in flats, 88% in houses.
20% of households rent privately and 77% own, which is why building waste clearance demand here peaks around tenancy changeovers and completion dates.
Expect solid London stock brick in Kingston Vale and Coombe, some of it dry-lined during a later refurbishment — and with 20% of homes here privately rented, it sets the booking date as often as the job does behind the plaster in KT2. That is why fixings are picked in the room rather than off a van shelf, and why fixings landing in soft lime mortar joints instead of the brick body on these streets — and with 19% one-person households in Kingston Vale and Coombe, one adult is usually the only pair of hands on site is the fault we are called back to undo.
Anyone who knows Kingston Vale and Coombe knows the pattern near Richmond Park's Robin Hood Gate: private estates of large houses on the slope below Richmond Park's Robin Hood Gate. We plan the KT2 visit around it. Kingston Vale and Coombe is outside the Congestion Charge zone but inside ULEZ; our vehicles are compliant, so nothing is added for it.
Getting to the door matters as much as the job: private-estate gates and codes, long gravel drives and narrow park-edge lanes. Norbiton (South Western) is the nearest station, and 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.