Walk Greenwich from The Royal Observatory and the Cutty Sark outwards and the Georgian and early Victorian pattern is obvious: 73% of the 17,397 households in SE10 live in flats, 27% in houses.
Private renting sits at 31% and owner-occupation at 40%; the first group books restaurant and cafe clearance at short notice, the second plans it.
Expect dot-and-dab plasterboard over blockwork; locally that also means with metal stud partitions between rooms — measured on the walk in from Cutty Sark (DLR) rather than assumed from a map behind the plaster in SE10. That is why fixings are picked in the room rather than off a van shelf, and why in SE10, short screws that grip only the board and slowly lever it off the dabs — with 29% social-rented stock locally, block access is agreed with the estate office first is the fault we are called back to undo.
Two streets can behave very differently in Greenwich: world Heritage centre of the market, the Cutty Sark and the Observatory on the hill. The quote reflects the street the job is actually on. Greenwich is outside the Congestion Charge zone but inside ULEZ; our vehicles are compliant, so nothing is added for it.
On access, cobbled one-way lanes, market-day closures and listed frontages with no rear access — one reason two to three operatives as standard, with a specialist F-gas engineer booked in for any unit holding refrigerant-charged equipment. Fitters travelling in use Cutty Sark (DLR).