Walk Grove Park from Grove Park Nature Reserve outwards and the inter-war pattern is obvious: 38% of the 3,420 households in SE12 live in flats, 62% in houses.
21% of households rent privately and 60% own, which is why rubbish removal demand here peaks around tenancy changeovers and completion dates.
Expect some of it dry-lined during a later refurbishment, over solid London stock brick — which is why London Borough of Lewisham kerb rules get settled before the van is loaded behind the plaster in SE12. That is why fixings are picked in the room rather than off a van shelf, and why in SE12, fixings landing in soft lime mortar joints instead of the brick body — and with 28% one-person households in Grove Park, one adult is usually the only pair of hands on site is the fault we are called back to undo.
Two streets can behave very differently in Grove Park: the Baring Hall, the Downham estate edge and the railway-side nature reserve. The quote reflects the street the job is actually on. Grove Park is outside the Congestion Charge zone but inside ULEZ; our vehicles are compliant, so nothing is added for it.
On access, wide roads and driveways; the station approach is narrow at peak times — 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 Grove Park (Southeastern).
