The IG2 stock around Gants Hill station's Moscow-inspired concourse is inter-war. ONS records 30% flats, 70% houses and 4,097 households in Gants Hill.
Owner-occupation runs at 62% in Gants Hill, so alongside the 32% rental churn there is steady planned work — refurbishments, downsizes and probate clearances booked weeks ahead.
Gants Hill substrates run to solid London stock brick in Gants Hill, some of it dry-lined during a later refurbishment — and the roundabout is hard to load from; residential roads have driveways. Nothing is drilled until the wall has been sounded, because fixings landing in soft lime mortar joints instead of the brick body on these streets — the pattern behind 4,097 households inside the IG2 neighbourhood is the mistake that costs a IG2 customer twice.
Anyone who knows Gants Hill knows the pattern near Gants Hill station's Moscow-inspired concourse: the Moscow-style station rotunda, a busy roundabout and mansion flats around it. We plan the IG2 visit around it. Gants Hill is outside the Congestion Charge zone but inside ULEZ; our vehicles are compliant, so nothing is added for it.
On access, the roundabout is hard to load from; residential roads have driveways — 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 Gants Hill (Central).