Walk Wanstead from Wanstead Park and the Temple outwards and the Georgian and early Victorian pattern is obvious: 30% of the 4,526 households in E11 live in flats, 70% in houses.
Owner-occupation runs at 72% in Wanstead, so alongside the 17% rental churn there is steady planned work — refurbishments, downsizes and probate clearances booked weeks ahead.
Expect some of it dry-lined during a later refurbishment, over solid London stock brick — the reality on the streets around Wanstead Park and the Temple behind the plaster in E11. That is why fixings are picked in the room rather than off a van shelf, and why fixings landing in soft lime mortar joints instead of the brick body on these streets — and conservation-area streets, driveways on most roads and timed loading on the high street is the fault we are called back to undo.
Anyone who knows Wanstead knows the pattern near Wanstead Park and the Temple: a village high street with Georgian houses, the park and Wanstead Flats. We plan the E11 visit around it. Wanstead is outside the Congestion Charge zone but inside ULEZ; our vehicles are compliant, so nothing is added for it.
Conservation-area streets, driveways on most roads and timed loading on the high street. Nearest station is Wanstead (Central), 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.