The E9 stock around The Lee Navigation and Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park is post-war. ONS records 69% flats, 31% houses and 2,805 households in Hackney Wick.
28% of households rent privately and 28% own, which is why end of tenancy 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 — with 45% social-rented stock locally, block access is agreed with the estate office first, so the fixing that matters in Hackney Wick is chosen on site — the usual failure here is drilling blind into a panel with reinforcement or a buried cable behind it on these streets — measured on the walk in from Hackney Wick (Overground) rather than assumed from a map.
Two streets can behave very differently in Hackney Wick: canal-side studios and warehouse blocks facing the Olympic Park. The quote reflects the street the job is actually on. Hackney Wick is outside the Congestion Charge zone but inside ULEZ; our vehicles are compliant, so nothing is added for it.
On access, narrow canal bridges, studio blocks with freight lifts and event-day park closures — one reason two operatives with a Luton van as standard, scaling to a second vehicle for a full three-bed or a property with no lift. Fitters travelling in use Hackney Wick (Overground).