Walk West Ham and Plaistow from The former Boleyn Ground site outwards and the mainly Victorian pattern is obvious: 55% of the 3,460 households in E13 live in flats, 45% in houses.
30% of households rent privately and 29% own, which is why construction site clearance demand here peaks around tenancy changeovers and completion dates.
Expect often with surface conduit, over precast concrete panels and dense blockwork — the reality on the streets around The former Boleyn Ground site behind the plaster in E13. That is why fixings are picked in the room rather than off a van shelf, and why in E13, drilling blind into a panel with reinforcement or a buried cable behind it — the pattern behind 3,460 households inside the E13 neighbourhood is the fault we are called back to undo.
Two streets can behave very differently in West Ham and Plaistow: terraced streets and the memory of the Boleyn Ground, with fast links in every direction. The quote reflects the street the job is actually on. West Ham and Plaistow is outside the Congestion Charge zone but inside ULEZ; our vehicles are compliant, so nothing is added for it.
On access, narrow terraced streets with permit bays; the A13 approach is a red route — 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 West Ham (Jubilee, District, DLR, c2c).