Walk West Hampstead from West End Lane outwards and the mainly Victorian pattern is obvious: 88% of the 4,309 households in NW6 live in flats, 12% in houses.
49% of households rent privately and 30% own, which is why green waste removal demand here peaks around tenancy changeovers and completion dates.
West Hampstead substrates run to lath and plaster over timber studs in West Hampstead, with solid brick on the party and external walls — with 21% social-rented stock locally, block access is agreed with the estate office first. Nothing is drilled until the wall has been sounded, because a plasterboard plug spun into lime plaster in NW6, which crumbles the key and drops the panel — measured on the walk in from West Hampstead (Jubilee, Overground, Thameslink) rather than assumed from a map is the mistake that costs a NW6 customer twice.
Two streets can behave very differently in West Hampstead: three stations, a busy high street and streets of red-brick Victorian conversions. The quote reflects the street the job is actually on. West Hampstead sits inside the Congestion Charge zone as well as ULEZ, so both are itemised on the quote rather than absorbed into an hourly rate.
Getting to the door matters as much as the job: very tight parking, narrow terraced streets and flats up two to four flights without lifts. West Hampstead (Jubilee, Overground, Thameslink) is the nearest station, and 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.
