Walk West Ham and Plaistow from The former Boleyn Ground site outwards and the mainly Victorian pattern is obvious: 55% of the 3,460 households in E13 live in flats, 45% in houses.
30% of households rent privately and 29% own, which is why garden clearance demand here peaks around tenancy changeovers and completion dates.
Expect precast concrete panels and dense blockwork in E13, often with surface conduit — which is what a 55% flat share across the ONS neighbourhood covering West Ham and Plaistow actually produces behind the plaster in E13. That is why fixings are picked in the room rather than off a van shelf, and why in E13, drilling blind into a panel with reinforcement or a buried cable behind it — and with 25% one-person households in West Ham and Plaistow, one adult is usually the only pair of hands on site is the fault we are called back to undo.
Two streets can behave very differently in West Ham and Plaistow: terraced streets and the memory of the Boleyn Ground, with fast links in every direction. The quote reflects the street the job is actually on. West Ham and Plaistow is outside the Congestion Charge zone but inside ULEZ; our vehicles are compliant, so nothing is added for it.
On access, narrow terraced streets with permit bays; the A13 approach is a red route — one reason two crew and a Luton or tipper; three where everything has to be carried through a hallway. Fitters travelling in use West Ham (Jubilee, District, DLR, c2c).
