In South Harrow (HA2) the split is 55% flats to 45% houses over 3,418 households, and the stock is inter-war.
The renter-heavy mix here (45% owned, 37% privately rented) means a HA2 diary swings between short-notice tenancy deadlines and appointments set a fortnight out.
South Harrow substrates run to solid London stock brick; locally that also means some of it dry-lined during a later refurbishment, with 17% social-rented stock locally, block access is agreed with the estate office first. Nothing is drilled until the wall has been sounded, because fixings landing in soft lime mortar joints instead of the brick body, as the South Harrow stock goes, the reality on the streets around Alexandra Park, South Harrow is the mistake that costs a HA2 customer twice.
A busy shopping parade and residential streets running down to Northolt. That character decides the practical detail of construction site clearance here far more than the borough boundary does. South Harrow is outside the Congestion Charge zone but inside ULEZ; our vehicles are compliant, so nothing is added for it.
On access, driveways on most streets; Northolt Road is busy with short loading bays — 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 South Harrow (Piccadilly).