Walk Earlsfield from King George's Park outwards and the mainly Victorian pattern is obvious: 61% of the 7,243 households in SW18 live in flats, 39% in houses.
32% of households rent privately and 51% own, which is why green waste removal demand here peaks around tenancy changeovers and completion dates.
Earlsfield substrates run to dot-and-dab plasterboard over blockwork; locally that also means with metal stud partitions between rooms — and with 26% one-person households in Earlsfield, one adult is usually the only pair of hands on site. Nothing is drilled until the wall has been sounded, because in SW18, short screws that grip only the board and slowly lever it off the dabs — with 16% social-rented stock locally, block access is agreed with the estate office first is the mistake that costs a SW18 customer twice.
Two streets can behave very differently in Earlsfield: garratt Lane's independents and quiet grids of Victorian terraces. The quote reflects the street the job is actually on. Earlsfield is outside the Congestion Charge zone but inside ULEZ; our vehicles are compliant, so nothing is added for it.
Getting to the door matters as much as the job: narrow terraced streets, permit bays and railway-bridge height limits. Earlsfield (South Western) 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.
