Census 2021 puts Royal Docks at 2,668 households with a median age of 31.9. The recent new-build stock is renter-heavy, which is why 26% houses and 74% flats need different handling in E16.
Private renting sits at 38% and owner-occupation at 23%; the first group books business clearance at short notice, the second plans it.
Royal Docks substrates run to often with surface conduit — and precast concrete panels and dense blockwork — a median age of 32 in this neighbourhood shapes what gets ordered here. Nothing is drilled until the wall has been sounded, because drilling blind into a panel with reinforcement or a buried cable behind it on these streets — with 39% social-rented stock locally, block access is agreed with the estate office first is the mistake that costs a E16 customer twice.
Two streets can behave very differently in Royal Docks: water on three sides — ExCeL, the cable car and dockside apartment terraces. The quote reflects the street the job is actually on. Royal Docks 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: event congestion around ExCeL, gated estates and mandatory lift booking. Royal Victoria (DLR) 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.
