The SE22 stock around Dulwich Park is mainly Victorian. ONS records 43% flats, 57% houses and 3,337 households in East Dulwich.
Owner-occupation runs at 58% in East Dulwich, so alongside the 25% rental churn there is steady planned work — refurbishments, downsizes and probate clearances booked weeks ahead.
Expect solid London stock brick in East Dulwich, some of it dry-lined during a later refurbishment — the pattern behind 3,337 households inside the SE22 neighbourhood behind the plaster in SE22. That is why fixings are picked in the room rather than off a van shelf, and why in SE22, fixings landing in soft lime mortar joints instead of the brick body — and with 26% one-person households in East Dulwich, one adult is usually the only pair of hands on site is the fault we are called back to undo.
Two streets can behave very differently in East Dulwich: lordship Lane's shops and rows of bay-fronted Victorian family houses. The quote reflects the street the job is actually on. East Dulwich 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: narrow terraced streets, resident bays and side returns too tight for a Luton. East Dulwich (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.
