Walk Surrey Quays from Greenland Dock outwards and the recent new-build pattern is obvious: 76% of the 4,588 households in SE16 live in flats, 22% in houses.
41% of households rent privately and 36% own, which is why rubbish removal demand here peaks around tenancy changeovers and completion dates.
Expect with metal stud partitions between rooms — and dot-and-dab plasterboard over blockwork — which is what a 76% flat share across the ONS neighbourhood covering Surrey Quays actually produces behind the plaster in SE16. That is why fixings are picked in the room rather than off a van shelf, and why in SE16, short screws that grip only the board and slowly lever it off the dabs — and with 32% one-person households in Surrey Quays, 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 Surrey Quays: retail park, Greenland Dock moorings and quiet dockland streets. The quote reflects the street the job is actually on. Surrey Quays sits inside the Congestion Charge zone as well as ULEZ, so both are itemised on the quote rather than absorbed into an hourly rate.
Wide estate roads with parking bays, but gated developments need codes and lift slots. Nearest station is Surrey Quays (Overground), and one person and a car for boot-loads; two crew and a 3.5-tonne Luton for anything from a quarter-load upward.
