3,820 households sit inside the W10 neighbourhood covering North Kensington. The build is mainly Victorian, the tenure profile social-housing-led, and 81% of those homes are flats.
The social-housing-led mix here (31% owned, 23% privately rented) means a W10 diary swings between short-notice tenancy deadlines and appointments set a fortnight out.
North Kensington substrates run to often with surface conduit — and precast concrete panels and dense blockwork, the pattern behind 3,820 households inside the W10 neighbourhood. Nothing is drilled until the wall has been sounded, because drilling blind into a panel with reinforcement or a buried cable behind it, as the North Kensington stock goes, where 31% owner-occupation means the same home is booked again rather than a new tenant each year is the mistake that costs a W10 customer twice.
Dense residential streets between the Westway and Wormwood Scrubs. That character decides the practical detail of rubbish removal here far more than the borough boundary does. North Kensington sits inside the Congestion Charge zone as well as ULEZ, so both are itemised on the quote rather than absorbed into an hourly rate.
Westway underpasses, one-way estate roads and stair-only access in many blocks. Nearest station is Latimer Road (Circle, Hammersmith & City), and one person and a car for boot-loads; two crew and a 3.5-tonne Luton for anything from a quarter-load upward.