6,674 households sit inside the KT3 neighbourhood covering New Malden. The build is mainly Edwardian, the tenure profile owner-occupier-led, and 30% of those homes are flats.
The owner-occupier-led mix here (67% owned, 27% privately rented) means a KT3 diary swings between short-notice tenancy deadlines and appointments set a fortnight out.
New Malden substrates run to solid London stock brick; locally that also means some of it dry-lined during a later refurbishment, and driveways on most streets; the high street has short loading bays. Nothing is drilled until the wall has been sounded, because New Malden gives us fixings landing in soft lime mortar joints instead of the brick body, where 67% owner-occupation means the same home is booked again rather than a new tenant each year is the mistake that costs a KT3 customer twice.
New Malden 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 — home to Europe's largest Korean community, with a high street to match — which is why a KT3 quote is not a Kingston upon Thames average.
Driveways on most streets; the high street has short loading bays. Nearest station is New Malden (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.