6,674 households sit inside the KT3 neighbourhood covering New Malden. The build is mainly Edwardian, the tenure profile owner-occupier-led, and 30% of those homes are flats.
Because 27% of New Malden is privately rented and 6% socially rented, a lot of KT3 work is agreed with a landlord or managing agent rather than the person opening the door.
Expect solid London stock brick in New Malden, some of it dry-lined during a later refurbishment, which is why Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames kerb rules get settled before the van is loaded behind the plaster in KT3. That is why fixings are picked in the room rather than off a van shelf, and why New Malden gives us fixings landing in soft lime mortar joints instead of the brick body, a median age of 40 in this neighbourhood shapes what gets ordered here is the fault we are called back to undo.
Home to Europe's largest Korean community, with a high street to match. That character decides the practical detail of building waste clearance here far more than the borough boundary does. New Malden is outside the Congestion Charge zone but inside ULEZ; our vehicles are compliant, so nothing is added for it.
On access, driveways on most streets; the high street has short loading bays — 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 New Malden (South Western).