In Kingston Vale and Coombe (KT2) the split is 12% flats to 88% houses over 2,354 households, and the stock is post-war.
The owner-occupier-led mix here (77% owned, 20% privately rented) means a KT2 diary swings between short-notice tenancy deadlines and appointments set a fortnight out.
Expect some of it dry-lined during a later refurbishment — and solid London stock brick, where 77% owner-occupation means the same home is booked again rather than a new tenant each year behind the plaster in KT2. That is why fixings are picked in the room rather than off a van shelf, and why fixings landing in soft lime mortar joints instead of the brick body, as the Kingston Vale and Coombe stock goes, a median age of 45 in this neighbourhood shapes what gets ordered here is the fault we are called back to undo.
Private estates of large houses on the slope below Richmond Park's Robin Hood Gate. That character decides the practical detail of flat and apartment clearance here far more than the borough boundary does. Kingston Vale and Coombe is outside the Congestion Charge zone but inside ULEZ; our vehicles are compliant, so nothing is added for it.
On access, private-estate gates and codes, long gravel drives and narrow park-edge lanes — one reason two crew and a Luton for a studio or one-bed; three crew and a second van on two- and three-bedroom apartments or any duplex. Fitters travelling in use Norbiton (South Western).