Walk Hackney Wick from The Lee Navigation and Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park outwards and the post-war pattern is obvious: 69% of the 2,805 households in E9 live in flats, 31% in houses.
Private renting sits at 28% and owner-occupation at 28%; the first group books business clearance at short notice, the second plans it.
Expect precast concrete panels and dense blockwork in Hackney Wick, often with surface conduit — where 28% owner-occupation means the same home is booked again rather than a new tenant each year behind the plaster in E9. That is why fixings are picked in the room rather than off a van shelf, and why in E9, drilling blind into a panel with reinforcement or a buried cable behind it — and with 31% one-person households in Hackney Wick, one adult is usually the only pair of hands on site is the fault we are called back to undo.
Anyone who knows Hackney Wick knows the pattern near The Lee Navigation and Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park: canal-side studios and warehouse blocks facing the Olympic Park. We plan the E9 visit around it. Hackney Wick is outside the Congestion Charge zone but inside ULEZ; our vehicles are compliant, so nothing is added for it.
Getting to the door matters as much as the job: narrow canal bridges, studio blocks with freight lifts and event-day park closures. Hackney Wick (Overground) is the nearest station, and two crew and a Luton on a small office or shop unit; three to four crew with a 7.5-tonne vehicle on retail strip-outs, warehouses and racking removals.