The SE28 stock around Southmere Lake is post-war. ONS records 47% flats, 53% houses and 7,133 households in Thamesmead.
28% of households rent privately and 32% own, which is why all hanging and mounting services demand here peaks around tenancy changeovers and completion dates.
Expect precast concrete panels and dense blockwork; locally that also means often with surface conduit — the reality on the streets around Southmere Lake behind the plaster in SE28. That is why fixings are picked in the room rather than off a van shelf, and why in SE28, drilling blind into a panel with reinforcement or a buried cable behind it — which is why Royal Borough of Greenwich kerb rules get settled before the van is loaded is the fault we are called back to undo.
Two streets can behave very differently in Thamesmead: brutalist canals and lakes, now under one of London's biggest regeneration programmes. The quote reflects the street the job is actually on. Thamesmead is outside the Congestion Charge zone but inside ULEZ; our vehicles are compliant, so nothing is added for it.
On access, deck-access blocks with limited lifts, long walkway carries and estate service roads — one reason one fitter for a typical multi-item visit; two where anything crosses 30kg or has to be carried up a shared stairwell. Fitters travelling in use Abbey Wood (Elizabeth line).