Census 2021 puts Roehampton at 9,539 households with a median age of 33.4. The inter-war stock is social-housing-led, which is why 25% houses and 75% flats need different handling in SW15.
Private renting sits at 25% and owner-occupation at 35%; the first group books garden clearance at short notice, the second plans it.
Roehampton substrates run to precast concrete panels and dense blockwork; locally that also means often with surface conduit — with 40% social-rented stock locally, block access is agreed with the estate office first. Nothing is drilled until the wall has been sounded, because in SW15, drilling blind into a panel with reinforcement or a buried cable behind it — and with 31% one-person households in Roehampton, one adult is usually the only pair of hands on site is the mistake that costs a SW15 customer twice.
Two streets can behave very differently in Roehampton: the Alton Estate's modernist slabs beside Richmond Park's Roehampton Gate. The quote reflects the street the job is actually on. Roehampton is outside the Congestion Charge zone but inside ULEZ; our vehicles are compliant, so nothing is added for it.
Slab blocks with limited lifts, long walkway carries and steep estate approaches. Nearest station is Barnes (South Western), and two crew and a Luton or tipper; three where everything has to be carried through a hallway.
