Walk London Fields from London Fields Lido outwards and the mainly Victorian pattern is obvious: 81% of the 4,593 households in E8 live in flats, 18% in houses.
37% of households rent privately and 29% own, which is why construction site clearance demand here peaks around tenancy changeovers and completion dates.
London Fields substrates run to often with surface conduit, over precast concrete panels and dense blockwork — where 29% owner-occupation means the same home is booked again rather than a new tenant each year. Nothing is drilled until the wall has been sounded, because in E8, drilling blind into a panel with reinforcement or a buried cable behind it — and with 33% one-person households in London Fields, one adult is usually the only pair of hands on site is the mistake that costs a E8 customer twice.
Two streets can behave very differently in London Fields: broadway Market, the lido and the most photographed terraces in east London. The quote reflects the street the job is actually on. London Fields is outside the Congestion Charge zone but inside ULEZ; our vehicles are compliant, so nothing is added for it.
On access, market-day closures on Saturdays, modal filters and no off-street parking — 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 London Fields (Overground).
