4,862 households sit inside the BR4 neighbourhood covering West Wickham. The build is inter-war, the tenure profile owner-occupier-led, and 19% of those homes are flats.
Because 12% of West Wickham is privately rented and 5% socially rented, a lot of BR4 work is agreed with a landlord or managing agent rather than the person opening the door.
Walls are timber stud partitions inside in BR4, cavity brickwork outside, which is why London Borough of Bromley kerb rules get settled before the van is loaded, so the fixing that matters in West Wickham is chosen on site — the usual failure here is a four-hole bracket with two screws in a stud and two in fresh air, as the West Wickham stock goes, where 83% owner-occupation means the same home is booked again rather than a new tenant each year.
A quiet suburb of interwar housing with Coney Hall and Sparrows Den beyond. That character decides the practical detail of construction site clearance here far more than the borough boundary does. West Wickham is outside the Congestion Charge zone but inside ULEZ; our vehicles are compliant, so nothing is added for it.
Wide roads and driveways; the High Street has timed loading only. Nearest station is West Wickham (Southeastern), and 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.