In Newington Green (N16) the split is 89% flats to 11% houses over 3,496 households, and the stock is Georgian and early Victorian.
The social-housing-led mix here (24% owned, 29% privately rented) means a N16 diary swings between short-notice tenancy deadlines and appointments set a fortnight out.
Expect precast concrete panels and dense blockwork in N16, often with surface conduit, and with 33% one-person households in Newington Green, one adult is usually the only pair of hands on site behind the plaster in N16. 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 Newington Green stock goes, the reality on the streets around Newington Green's 1658 terrace is the fault we are called back to undo.
Newington Green is outside the Congestion Charge zone but inside ULEZ; our vehicles are compliant, so nothing is added for it. What shapes the job more is the neighbourhood itself — historic green with London's oldest brick terrace, ringed by cafés and conversions — which is why a N16 quote is not a Hackney average.
On access, green-side loading limits, one-way streets and permit bays all week — one reason 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. Fitters travelling in use Canonbury (Overground), ten minutes east of the green.