In St Mary Cray and Cray Valley (BR5) the split is 23% flats to 77% houses over 10,135 households, and the stock is mainly Victorian.
Because 13% of St Mary Cray and Cray Valley is privately rented and 32% socially rented, a lot of BR5 work is agreed with a landlord or managing agent rather than the person opening the door.
Walls are precast concrete panels and dense blockwork; locally that also means often with surface conduit, which is why London Borough of Bromley kerb rules get settled before the van is loaded, so the fixing that matters in St Mary Cray and Cray Valley is chosen on site — the usual failure here is St Mary Cray and Cray Valley gives us drilling blind into a panel with reinforcement or a buried cable behind it, the reality on the streets around The River Cray and Nugent Shopping Park.
Valley industry, the Cray river and post-war estate housing. That character decides the practical detail of shed clearance and removal here far more than the borough boundary does. St Mary Cray and Cray Valley is outside the Congestion Charge zone but inside ULEZ; our vehicles are compliant, so nothing is added for it.
Getting to the door matters as much as the job: wide estate roads with kerbside parking and industrial-estate access nearby. St Mary Cray (Southeastern) is the nearest station, and two crew and a Luton on a standard timber shed; three crew where the shed is a workshop size, the base is concrete or the only route out is through the house.