The EC3 stock around The Monument to the Great Fire is recent new-build. ONS records 98% flats, 2% houses and 4,914 households in Monument and Eastcheap.
Private renting sits at 48% and owner-occupation at 37%; the first group books green waste removal at short notice, the second plans it.
Walls are dot-and-dab plasterboard over blockwork; locally that also means with metal stud partitions between rooms — a median age of 37 in this neighbourhood shapes what gets ordered here, so the fixing that matters in Monument and Eastcheap is chosen on site — the usual failure here is short screws that grip only the board and slowly lever it off the dabs on these streets — which is why City of London Corporation kerb rules get settled before the van is loaded.
Two streets can behave very differently in Monument and Eastcheap: riverside City streets between London Bridge and the Tower, dense with narrow lanes. The quote reflects the street the job is actually on. Monument and Eastcheap sits inside the Congestion Charge zone as well as ULEZ, so both are itemised on the quote rather than absorbed into an hourly rate.
On access, lower Thames Street is a red route; the lanes behind take a small van only — 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 Monument (Circle, District).
