Walk Edmonton from Edmonton Green Market outwards and the mainly Victorian pattern is obvious: 47% of the 17,818 households in N9 live in flats, 53% in houses.
Private renting sits at 34% and owner-occupation at 33%; the first group books construction site clearance at short notice, the second plans it.
Expect often with surface conduit, over precast concrete panels and dense blockwork — and with 34% of homes here privately rented, it sets the booking date as often as the job does behind the plaster in N9. That is why fixings are picked in the room rather than off a van shelf, and why in N9, drilling blind into a panel with reinforcement or a buried cable behind it — and with 27% one-person households in Edmonton, one adult is usually the only pair of hands on site is the fault we are called back to undo.
Two streets can behave very differently in Edmonton: market, shopping centre and dense post-war housing on the Lea valley flat. The quote reflects the street the job is actually on. Edmonton is outside the Congestion Charge zone but inside ULEZ; our vehicles are compliant, so nothing is added for it.
On access, tower blocks with a single goods lift, estate service roads and market congestion — 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 Edmonton Green (Greater Anglia).
