Mottingham SE9 is inter-war and social-housing-led: 25% of homes here are flats and 75% are houses, across 3,789 households (ONS Census 2021).
The social-housing-led mix here (50% owned, 17% privately rented) means a SE9 diary swings between short-notice tenancy deadlines and appointments set a fortnight out.
Mottingham substrates run to often with surface conduit, over precast concrete panels and dense blockwork, which is why London Borough of Bromley kerb rules get settled before the van is loaded. Nothing is drilled until the wall has been sounded, because Mottingham gives us drilling blind into a panel with reinforcement or a buried cable behind it, where 50% owner-occupation means the same home is booked again rather than a new tenant each year is the mistake that costs a SE9 customer twice.
A quiet interwar suburb between Eltham and Chislehurst. That character decides the practical detail of green waste removal here far more than the borough boundary does. Mottingham is outside the Congestion Charge zone but inside ULEZ; our vehicles are compliant, so nothing is added for it.
On access, wide roads and driveways throughout, with easy turning for a Luton — one reason two crew and a Luton on most garden clearances; three crew and a tipper where the load is mainly soil, turf or rubble and weight rather than volume decides the run. Fitters travelling in use Mottingham (Southeastern).