6,674 households sit inside the KT3 neighbourhood covering New Malden. The build is mainly Edwardian, the tenure profile owner-occupier-led, and 30% of those homes are flats.
The owner-occupier-led mix here (67% owned, 27% privately rented) means a KT3 diary swings between short-notice tenancy deadlines and appointments set a fortnight out.
Walls are solid London stock brick in KT3, some of it dry-lined during a later refurbishment, measured on the walk in from New Malden (South Western) rather than assumed from a map, so the fixing that matters in New Malden is chosen on site — the usual failure here is fixings landing in soft lime mortar joints instead of the brick body, as the New Malden stock goes, the reality on the streets around The Korean high street on Burlington Road.
Home to Europe's largest Korean community, with a high street to match. That character decides the practical detail of rubbish removal here far more than the borough boundary does. New Malden is outside the Congestion Charge zone but inside ULEZ; our vehicles are compliant, so nothing is added for it.
On access, driveways on most streets; the high street has short loading bays — one reason one person and a car for boot-loads; two crew and a 3.5-tonne Luton for anything from a quarter-load upward. Fitters travelling in use New Malden (South Western).