Walk Lewisham from Lewisham Market on the High Street outwards and the mainly Victorian pattern is obvious: 75% of the 3,987 households in SE13 live in flats, 25% in houses.
Private renting sits at 33% and owner-occupation at 32%; the first group books house and flat clearance at short notice, the second plans it.
Expect precast concrete panels and dense blockwork in SE13, often with surface conduit — which is what a 75% flat share across the ONS neighbourhood covering Lewisham actually produces behind the plaster in SE13. That is why fixings are picked in the room rather than off a van shelf, and why in SE13, drilling blind into a panel with reinforcement or a buried cable behind it — and with 36% one-person households in Lewisham, 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 Lewisham: the market, the shopping centre and a cluster of new residential towers. The quote reflects the street the job is actually on. Lewisham is outside the Congestion Charge zone but inside ULEZ; our vehicles are compliant, so nothing is added for it.
Getting to the door matters as much as the job: roundabout red routes, market-day loading limits and booked lifts in the towers. Lewisham (DLR, Southeastern) is the nearest station, and a two-person crew and a Luton for flats; three or four crew and two vans for houses with lofts, cellars or garages.
