Walk Roehampton from The Alton Estate and Richmond Park outwards and the inter-war pattern is obvious: 75% of the 9,539 households in SW15 live in flats, 25% in houses.
Owner-occupation runs at 35% in Roehampton, so alongside the 25% rental churn there is steady planned work — refurbishments, downsizes and probate clearances booked weeks ahead.
Walls are precast concrete panels and dense blockwork in Roehampton, often with surface conduit — where 35% owner-occupation means the same home is booked again rather than a new tenant each year, so the fixing that matters in Roehampton is chosen on site — the usual failure here is in SW15, drilling blind into a panel with reinforcement or a buried cable behind it — and with 31% one-person households in Roehampton, one adult is usually the only pair of hands on site.
Two streets can behave very differently in Roehampton: the Alton Estate's modernist slabs beside Richmond Park's Roehampton Gate. The quote reflects the street the job is actually on. Roehampton is outside the Congestion Charge zone but inside ULEZ; our vehicles are compliant, so nothing is added for it.
On access, slab blocks with limited lifts, long walkway carries and steep estate approaches — 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 Barnes (South Western).
