Walk Kingston town centre from Kingston Market Place and the coronation stone outwards and the mainly Victorian pattern is obvious: 63% of the 9,668 households in KT1 live in flats, 37% in houses.
40% of households rent privately and 51% own, which is why construction site clearance demand here peaks around tenancy changeovers and completion dates.
Expect dot-and-dab plasterboard over blockwork in Kingston town centre, with metal stud partitions between rooms — where 51% owner-occupation means the same home is booked again rather than a new tenant each year behind the plaster in KT1. That is why fixings are picked in the room rather than off a van shelf, and why in KT1, short screws that grip only the board and slowly lever it off the dabs — and with 32% one-person households in Kingston town centre, one adult is usually the only pair of hands on site is the fault we are called back to undo.
Two streets can behave very differently in Kingston town centre: riverside market town with the Bentall Centre, the ancient market and the bridge. The quote reflects the street the job is actually on. Kingston town centre is outside the Congestion Charge zone but inside ULEZ; our vehicles are compliant, so nothing is added for it.
On access, pedestrianised centre with timed access, riverside loading limits and a one-way ring road — 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 Kingston (South Western).
