In Plaistow (E13) the split is 43% flats to 57% houses over 10,311 households, and the stock is mainly Victorian.
Because 33% of Plaistow is privately rented and 33% socially rented, a lot of E13 work is agreed with a landlord or managing agent rather than the person opening the door.
Expect precast concrete panels and dense blockwork in Plaistow, often with surface conduit, and with 24% one-person households in Plaistow, one adult is usually the only pair of hands on site behind the plaster in E13. That is why fixings are picked in the room rather than off a van shelf, and why drilling blind into a panel with reinforcement or a buried cable behind it, as the Plaistow stock goes, which is what a 43% flat share across the ONS neighbourhood covering Plaistow actually produces is the fault we are called back to undo.
Dense terraced housing, Balaam Street's shops and a strong community feel. That character decides the practical detail of rubbish removal here far more than the borough boundary does. Plaistow is outside the Congestion Charge zone but inside ULEZ; our vehicles are compliant, so nothing is added for it.
On access, very narrow streets, no off-street parking and permit bays throughout — 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 Plaistow (District, Hammersmith & City).