10,391 households sit inside the E15 neighbourhood covering Stratford. The build is mainly Victorian, the tenure profile renter-heavy, and 61% of those homes are flats.
Because 37% of Stratford is privately rented and 35% socially rented, a lot of E15 work is agreed with a landlord or managing agent rather than the person opening the door.
Walls are precast concrete panels and dense blockwork; locally that also means often with surface conduit, where 28% owner-occupation means the same home is booked again rather than a new tenant each year, so the fixing that matters in Stratford is chosen on site — the usual failure here is drilling blind into a panel with reinforcement or a buried cable behind it, as the Stratford stock goes, and with 37% of homes here privately rented, it sets the booking date as often as the job does.
Stratford is outside the Congestion Charge zone but inside ULEZ; our vehicles are compliant, so nothing is added for it. What shapes the job more is the neighbourhood itself — westfield, the Olympic Park and a skyline of new residential towers — which is why a E15 quote is not a Newham average.
On access, every tower needs a booked goods lift and loading bay; estate roads are camera-controlled — one reason two crew and a Luton or tipper; three where everything has to be carried through a hallway. Fitters travelling in use Stratford (Central, Jubilee, Elizabeth line, DLR).