In Stratford (E15) the split is 61% flats to 39% houses over 10,391 households, and the stock is mainly Victorian.
The renter-heavy mix here (28% owned, 37% privately rented) means a E15 diary swings between short-notice tenancy deadlines and appointments set a fortnight out.
Walls are precast concrete panels and dense blockwork in Stratford, often with surface conduit, which is what a 61% flat share across the ONS neighbourhood covering Stratford actually produces, so the fixing that matters in Stratford is chosen on site — the usual failure here is Stratford gives us drilling blind into a panel with reinforcement or a buried cable behind it, a median age of 32 in this neighbourhood shapes what gets ordered here.
Stratford is outside the Congestion Charge zone but inside ULEZ; our vehicles are compliant, so nothing is added for it. What shapes the job more is the neighbourhood itself — westfield, the Olympic Park and a skyline of new residential towers — which is why a E15 quote is not a Newham average.
Getting to the door matters as much as the job: every tower needs a booked goods lift and loading bay; estate roads are camera-controlled. Stratford (Central, Jubilee, Elizabeth line, DLR) is the nearest station, and two to three operatives as standard, with a specialist F-gas engineer booked in for any unit holding refrigerant-charged equipment.