In Temple and Aldwych (WC2) the split is 95% flats to 5% houses over 3,927 households, and the stock is period conversion.
The renter-heavy mix here (28% owned, 44% privately rented) means a WC2 diary swings between short-notice tenancy deadlines and appointments set a fortnight out.
Temple and Aldwych substrates run to with metal stud partitions between rooms — and dot-and-dab plasterboard over blockwork, which is why Westminster City Council kerb rules get settled before the van is loaded. Nothing is drilled until the wall has been sounded, because Temple and Aldwych gives us short screws that grip only the board and slowly lever it off the dabs, and with 44% of homes here privately rented, it sets the booking date as often as the job does is the mistake that costs a WC2 customer twice.
Barristers' chambers, King's College buildings and the crescent of Aldwych. That character decides the practical detail of green waste removal here far more than the borough boundary does. Temple and Aldwych 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: embankment red route, Inns gate control and no loading on the Strand at peak times. Temple (Circle, District) 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.