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.
25% of households rent privately and 35% own, which is why warehouse clearance demand here peaks around tenancy changeovers and completion dates.
Walls are precast concrete panels and dense blockwork; locally that also means often with surface conduit — the reality on the streets around The Alton Estate and Richmond Park, 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.
Getting to the door matters as much as the job: slab blocks with limited lifts, long walkway carries and steep estate approaches. Barnes (South Western) is the nearest station, 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.
