4,163 households sit inside the TW9 neighbourhood covering Kew. The build is mainly Edwardian, the tenure profile owner-occupier-led, and 41% of those homes are flats.
Because 30% of Kew is privately rented and 6% socially rented, a lot of TW9 work is agreed with a landlord or managing agent rather than the person opening the door.
Expect solid London stock brick in Kew, some of it dry-lined during a later refurbishment, and narrow streets with permit bays, level crossings and conservation-area frontages behind the plaster in TW9. 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 Kew stock goes, a median age of 43 in this neighbourhood shapes what gets ordered here is the fault we are called back to undo.
The botanic gardens, the green and Edwardian family streets around them. That character decides the practical detail of flat and apartment clearance here far more than the borough boundary does. Kew is outside the Congestion Charge zone but inside ULEZ; our vehicles are compliant, so nothing is added for it.
On access, narrow streets with permit bays, level crossings and conservation-area frontages — 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 Kew Gardens (District, Overground).