2,354 households sit inside the KT2 neighbourhood covering Kingston Vale and Coombe. The build is post-war, the tenure profile owner-occupier-led, and 12% of those homes are flats.
Because 20% of Kingston Vale and Coombe is privately rented and 3% socially rented, a lot of KT2 work is agreed with a landlord or managing agent rather than the person opening the door.
Expect solid London stock brick in Kingston Vale and Coombe, some of it dry-lined during a later refurbishment, where 77% owner-occupation means the same home is booked again rather than a new tenant each year behind the plaster in KT2. That is why fixings are picked in the room rather than off a van shelf, and why Kingston Vale and Coombe gives us fixings landing in soft lime mortar joints instead of the brick body, the reality on the streets around Richmond Park's Robin Hood Gate is the fault we are called back to undo.
Kingston Vale and Coombe is outside the Congestion Charge zone but inside ULEZ; our vehicles are compliant, so nothing is added for it. What shapes the job more is the neighbourhood itself — private estates of large houses on the slope below Richmond Park's Robin Hood Gate — which is why a KT2 quote is not a Kingston upon Thames average.
Private-estate gates and codes, long gravel drives and narrow park-edge lanes. Nearest station is Norbiton (South Western), two miles south-west, and two crew and a 3.5-tonne Luton as standard; heavy rubble loads run below the legal weight limit rather than filling the space.