Walk Forest Hill from The Horniman Museum and Gardens outwards and the mainly Victorian pattern is obvious: 58% of the 6,684 households in SE23 live in flats, 42% in houses.
27% of households rent privately and 54% own, which is why green waste removal demand here peaks around tenancy changeovers and completion dates.
Forest Hill substrates run to dot-and-dab plasterboard over blockwork; locally that also means with metal stud partitions between rooms — a median age of 36 in this neighbourhood shapes what gets ordered here. Nothing is drilled until the wall has been sounded, because short screws that grip only the board and slowly lever it off the dabs on these streets — measured on the walk in from Forest Hill (Overground) rather than assumed from a map is the mistake that costs a SE23 customer twice.
Two streets can behave very differently in Forest Hill: the Horniman Museum, the hill views and a compact village centre. The quote reflects the street the job is actually on. Forest Hill is outside the Congestion Charge zone but inside ULEZ; our vehicles are compliant, so nothing is added for it.
On access, steep gradients, narrow hill roads and permit bays around the station — 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 Forest Hill (Overground).
