Walk Kingston Vale and Coombe from Richmond Park's Robin Hood Gate outwards and the post-war pattern is obvious: 12% of the 2,354 households in KT2 live in flats, 88% in houses.
20% of households rent privately and 77% own, which is why construction site clearance demand here peaks around tenancy changeovers and completion dates.
Expect some of it dry-lined during a later refurbishment — and solid London stock brick — a median age of 45 in this neighbourhood shapes what gets ordered here behind the plaster in KT2. That is why fixings are picked in the room rather than off a van shelf, and why in KT2, fixings landing in soft lime mortar joints instead of the brick body — and private-estate gates and codes, long gravel drives and narrow park-edge lanes is the fault we are called back to undo.
Two streets can behave very differently in Kingston Vale and Coombe: private estates of large houses on the slope below Richmond Park's Robin Hood Gate. The quote reflects the street the job is actually on. Kingston Vale and Coombe is outside the Congestion Charge zone but inside ULEZ; our vehicles are compliant, so nothing is added for it.
Private-estate gates and codes, long gravel drives and narrow park-edge lanes. Nearest station is Norbiton (South Western), and 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.