Walk New Cross from Goldsmiths, University of London outwards and the mainly Victorian pattern is obvious: 73% of the 11,771 households in SE14 live in flats, 27% in houses.
34% of households rent privately and 30% own, which is why factory and industrial clearance demand here peaks around tenancy changeovers and completion dates.
Walls are often with surface conduit — and precast concrete panels and dense blockwork — where 30% owner-occupation means the same home is booked again rather than a new tenant each year, so the fixing that matters in New Cross is chosen on site — the usual failure here is in SE14, drilling blind into a panel with reinforcement or a buried cable behind it — measured on the walk in from New Cross (Overground, Southeastern) rather than assumed from a map.
Two streets can behave very differently in New Cross: goldsmiths' campus, the Venue and student-heavy Victorian streets. The quote reflects the street the job is actually on. New Cross is outside the Congestion Charge zone but inside ULEZ; our vehicles are compliant, so nothing is added for it.
September student turnover, New Cross Road red route and narrow permit-only streets. Nearest station is New Cross (Overground, Southeastern), and three to six operatives depending on the plant, with skates, pallet trucks and a tail-lift 7.5t as standard and a HIAB where a machine cannot be moved to the bay by hand.
