Walk Hornchurch from The Queen's Theatre, Hornchurch outwards and the inter-war pattern is obvious: 29% of the 10,631 households in RM12 live in flats, 71% in houses.
16% of households rent privately and 67% own, which is why green waste removal demand here peaks around tenancy changeovers and completion dates.
Expect cavity brickwork outside, over timber stud partitions inside — where 67% owner-occupation means the same home is booked again rather than a new tenant each year behind the plaster in RM12. That is why fixings are picked in the room rather than off a van shelf, and why a four-hole bracket with two screws in a stud and two in fresh air on these streets — measured on the walk in from Hornchurch (District) rather than assumed from a map is the fault we are called back to undo.
Anyone who knows Hornchurch knows the pattern near The Queen's Theatre, Hornchurch: a long high street, the Queen's Theatre and streets of interwar semis. We plan the RM12 visit around it. Hornchurch is outside the Congestion Charge zone but inside ULEZ; our vehicles are compliant, so nothing is added for it.
On access, driveways almost everywhere; the high street has timed loading 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 Hornchurch (District).