The KT2 stock around Richmond Park's Robin Hood Gate is post-war. ONS records 12% flats, 88% houses and 2,354 households in Kingston Vale and Coombe.
Owner-occupation runs at 77% in Kingston Vale and Coombe, so alongside the 20% 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 — and solid London stock brick — the reality on the streets around Richmond Park's Robin Hood Gate behind the plaster in KT2. That is why fixings are picked in the room rather than off a van shelf, and why in KT2, fixings landing in soft lime mortar joints instead of the brick body — and with 19% one-person households in Kingston Vale and Coombe, one adult is usually the only pair of hands on site is the fault we are called back to undo.
Two streets can behave very differently in Kingston Vale and Coombe: private estates of large houses on the slope below Richmond Park's Robin Hood Gate. The quote reflects the street the job is actually on. Kingston Vale and Coombe is outside the Congestion Charge zone but inside ULEZ; our vehicles are compliant, so nothing is added for it.
Private-estate gates and codes, long gravel drives and narrow park-edge lanes. Nearest station is Norbiton (South Western), and four operatives with a 7.5t tail-lift vehicle on a standard unit, scaling to six with a second vehicle where the handover date is tight.
