Walk White City from Television Centre outwards and the post-war pattern is obvious: 86% of the 2,536 households in W12 live in flats, 14% in houses.
Private renting sits at 17% and owner-occupation at 20%; the first group books construction site clearance at short notice, the second plans it.
Walls are precast concrete panels and dense blockwork; locally that also means often with surface conduit — and with 26% one-person households in White City, one adult is usually the only pair of hands on site, so the fixing that matters in White City is chosen on site — the usual failure here is drilling blind into a panel with reinforcement or a buried cable behind it on these streets — with 62% social-rented stock locally, block access is agreed with the estate office first.
Anyone who knows White City knows the pattern near Television Centre: the old BBC campus, Imperial's new science quarter and towers of new flats. We plan the W12 visit around it. White City is outside the Congestion Charge zone but inside ULEZ; our vehicles are compliant, so nothing is added for it.
On access, estate loading docks with booked slots, campus access control and A40 red routes — 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 White City (Central).