Walk Purley from Purley Rotary Field outwards and the inter-war pattern is obvious: 44% of the 7,502 households in CR8 live in flats, 56% in houses.
Owner-occupation runs at 64% in Purley, so alongside the 26% rental churn there is steady planned work — refurbishments, downsizes and probate clearances booked weeks ahead.
Walls are some of it dry-lined during a later refurbishment, over solid London stock brick — and with 26% of homes here privately rented, it sets the booking date as often as the job does, so the fixing that matters in Purley is chosen on site — the usual failure here is fixings landing in soft lime mortar joints instead of the brick body on these streets — and with 29% one-person households in Purley, one adult is usually the only pair of hands on site.
Two streets can behave very differently in Purley: a downland town at the foot of the Brighton Road hills, with big detached houses above. The quote reflects the street the job is actually on. Purley is outside the Congestion Charge zone but inside ULEZ; our vehicles are compliant, so nothing is added for it.
On access, steep hill roads with sharp turns; driveways on most residential streets — 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 Purley (Southern).
