Walk Greenwich from The Royal Observatory and the Cutty Sark outwards and the Georgian and early Victorian pattern is obvious: 73% of the 17,397 households in SE10 live in flats, 27% in houses.
Owner-occupation runs at 40% in Greenwich, so alongside the 31% rental churn there is steady planned work — refurbishments, downsizes and probate clearances booked weeks ahead.
Greenwich substrates run to with metal stud partitions between rooms, over dot-and-dab plasterboard over blockwork — and with 32% one-person households in Greenwich, one adult is usually the only pair of hands on site. Nothing is drilled until the wall has been sounded, because in SE10, short screws that grip only the board and slowly lever it off the dabs — the pattern behind 17,397 households inside the SE10 neighbourhood is the mistake that costs a SE10 customer twice.
Two streets can behave very differently in Greenwich: world Heritage centre of the market, the Cutty Sark and the Observatory on the hill. The quote reflects the street the job is actually on. Greenwich is outside the Congestion Charge zone but inside ULEZ; our vehicles are compliant, so nothing is added for it.
On access, cobbled one-way lanes, market-day closures and listed frontages with no rear access — 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 Cutty Sark (DLR).
