The CR7 stock around Selhurst Park is mainly Victorian. ONS records 38% flats, 62% houses and 12,862 households in Thornton Heath.
Private renting sits at 31% and owner-occupation at 54%; the first group books shed clearance and removal at short notice, the second plans it.
Walls are some of it dry-lined during a later refurbishment — and solid London stock brick — which is why London Borough of Croydon kerb rules get settled before the van is loaded, so the fixing that matters in Thornton Heath is chosen on site — the usual failure here is fixings landing in soft lime mortar joints instead of the brick body on these streets — with 15% social-rented stock locally, block access is agreed with the estate office first.
Anyone who knows Thornton Heath knows the pattern near Selhurst Park: a busy high street, the pond junction and Selhurst Park's match-day crowds. We plan the CR7 visit around it. Thornton Heath is outside the Congestion Charge zone but inside ULEZ; our vehicles are compliant, so nothing is added for it.
Match-day parking bans, high-street loading windows and narrow terraced streets. Nearest station is Thornton Heath (Southern), 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.