Walk Mottingham from Mottingham Village and Fairmount recreation ground outwards and the inter-war pattern is obvious: 25% of the 3,789 households in SE9 live in flats, 75% in houses.
Private renting sits at 17% and owner-occupation at 50%; the first group books construction site clearance at short notice, the second plans it.
Walls are precast concrete panels and dense blockwork in Mottingham, often with surface conduit — and with 30% one-person households in Mottingham, one adult is usually the only pair of hands on site, so the fixing that matters in Mottingham is chosen on site — the usual failure here is drilling blind into a panel with reinforcement or a buried cable behind it on these streets — with 33% social-rented stock locally, block access is agreed with the estate office first.
Anyone who knows Mottingham knows the pattern near Mottingham Village and Fairmount recreation ground: a quiet interwar suburb between Eltham and Chislehurst. We plan the SE9 visit around it. Mottingham is outside the Congestion Charge zone but inside ULEZ; our vehicles are compliant, so nothing is added for it.
On access, wide roads and driveways throughout, with easy turning for a Luton — one reason two operatives with a 3.5t tipper as standard, scaling to four operatives and a 7.5t vehicle on strip-outs or where the waste has to be barrowed a long way to the frontage. Fitters travelling in use Mottingham (Southeastern).