Walk Goodmayes from Goodmayes Park outwards and the mainly Edwardian pattern is obvious: 34% of the 7,053 households in IG3 live in flats, 66% in houses.
Owner-occupation runs at 50% in Goodmayes, so alongside the 41% rental churn there is steady planned work — refurbishments, downsizes and probate clearances booked weeks ahead.
Walls are solid London stock brick in IG3, some of it dry-lined during a later refurbishment — which is what a 34% flat share across the ONS neighbourhood covering Goodmayes actually produces, so the fixing that matters in Goodmayes is chosen on site — the usual failure here is fixings landing in soft lime mortar joints instead of the brick body on these streets — and elizabeth-line demand, permit bays and narrow terraced frontages.
Anyone who knows Goodmayes knows the pattern near Goodmayes Park: retail park, hospital and a long stretch of Edwardian terraced streets. We plan the IG3 visit around it. Goodmayes is outside the Congestion Charge zone but inside ULEZ; our vehicles are compliant, so nothing is added for it.
Elizabeth-line demand, permit bays and narrow terraced frontages. Nearest station is Goodmayes (Elizabeth line), 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.