Walk Woolwich from The Royal Arsenal and Woolwich Ferry outwards and the post-war pattern is obvious: 63% of the 13,241 households in SE18 live in flats, 37% in houses.
Private renting sits at 25% and owner-occupation at 28%; the first group books construction site clearance at short notice, the second plans it.
Expect precast concrete panels and dense blockwork in Woolwich, often with surface conduit — and with 31% one-person households in Woolwich, one adult is usually the only pair of hands on site behind the plaster in SE18. That is why fixings are picked in the room rather than off a van shelf, and why in SE18, drilling blind into a panel with reinforcement or a buried cable behind it — which is why Royal Borough of Greenwich kerb rules get settled before the van is loaded is the fault we are called back to undo.
Two streets can behave very differently in Woolwich: the Arsenal's converted barracks, a market town centre and the ferry across the river. The quote reflects the street the job is actually on. Woolwich is outside the Congestion Charge zone but inside ULEZ; our vehicles are compliant, so nothing is added for it.
On access, royal Arsenal estate permits, town-centre one-way loading and booked lifts in the towers — 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 Woolwich (Elizabeth line, DLR).
