The KT2 stock around Richmond Park's Robin Hood Gate is post-war. ONS records 12% flats, 88% houses and 2,354 households in Kingston Vale and Coombe.
Owner-occupation runs at 77% in Kingston Vale and Coombe, so alongside the 20% rental churn there is steady planned work — refurbishments, downsizes and probate clearances booked weeks ahead.
Kingston Vale and Coombe substrates run to solid London stock brick in Kingston Vale and Coombe, some of it dry-lined during a later refurbishment — a median age of 45 in this neighbourhood shapes what gets ordered here. Nothing is drilled until the wall has been sounded, because in KT2, fixings landing in soft lime mortar joints instead of the brick body — which is why Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames kerb rules get settled before the van is loaded is the mistake that costs a KT2 customer twice.
Two streets can behave very differently in Kingston Vale and Coombe: private estates of large houses on the slope below Richmond Park's Robin Hood Gate. The quote reflects the street the job is actually on. 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 or tipper; three where everything has to be carried through a hallway. Fitters travelling in use Norbiton (South Western).