Walk Forest Hill from The Horniman Museum and Gardens outwards and the mainly Victorian pattern is obvious: 58% of the 6,684 households in SE23 live in flats, 42% in houses.
27% of households rent privately and 54% own, which is why hotel clearance demand here peaks around tenancy changeovers and completion dates.
Expect dot-and-dab plasterboard over blockwork in Forest Hill, with metal stud partitions between rooms — which is what a 58% flat share across the ONS neighbourhood covering Forest Hill actually produces behind the plaster in SE23. That is why fixings are picked in the room rather than off a van shelf, and why short screws that grip only the board and slowly lever it off the dabs on these streets — and with 28% one-person households in Forest Hill, one adult is usually the only pair of hands on site is the fault we are called back to undo.
Two streets can behave very differently in Forest Hill: the Horniman Museum, the hill views and a compact village centre. The quote reflects the street the job is actually on. Forest Hill is outside the Congestion Charge zone but inside ULEZ; our vehicles are compliant, so nothing is added for it.
On access, steep gradients, narrow hill roads and permit bays around the station — one reason two to four operatives depending on room count, scaling to a second team on a full-floor or full-closure clearance where the schedule is set by a redevelopment date. Fitters travelling in use Forest Hill (Overground).
