The IG2 stock around Gants Hill station's Moscow-inspired concourse is inter-war. ONS records 30% flats, 70% houses and 4,097 households in Gants Hill.
Owner-occupation runs at 62% in Gants Hill, so alongside the 32% rental churn there is steady planned work — refurbishments, downsizes and probate clearances booked weeks ahead.
Gants Hill substrates run to some of it dry-lined during a later refurbishment, over solid London stock brick — where 62% owner-occupation means the same home is booked again rather than a new tenant each year. Nothing is drilled until the wall has been sounded, because in IG2, fixings landing in soft lime mortar joints instead of the brick body — and the roundabout is hard to load from; residential roads have driveways is the mistake that costs a IG2 customer twice.
Two streets can behave very differently in Gants Hill: the Moscow-style station rotunda, a busy roundabout and mansion flats around it. The quote reflects the street the job is actually on. Gants Hill is outside the Congestion Charge zone but inside ULEZ; our vehicles are compliant, so nothing is added for it.
The roundabout is hard to load from; residential roads have driveways. Nearest station is Gants Hill (Central), 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.