Walk Shepherd's Bush from Westfield London and Shepherd's Bush Market outwards and the mainly Victorian pattern is obvious: 87% of the 9,929 households in W12 live in flats, 13% in houses.
Private renting sits at 40% and owner-occupation at 26%; the first group books cat flap fitting at short notice, the second plans it.
Walls are often with surface conduit — and precast concrete panels and dense blockwork — which is what a 87% flat share across the ONS neighbourhood covering Shepherd's Bush actually produces, so the fixing that matters in Shepherd's Bush is chosen on site — the usual failure here is in W12, drilling blind into a panel with reinforcement or a buried cable behind it — and with 41% one-person households in Shepherd's Bush, one adult is usually the only pair of hands on site.
Two streets can behave very differently in Shepherd's Bush: the green, the market and Westfield's mall on the old exhibition grounds. The quote reflects the street the job is actually on. Shepherd's Bush is outside the Congestion Charge zone but inside ULEZ; our vehicles are compliant, so nothing is added for it.
On access, mall service yards, Uxbridge Road bus lanes and permit-only side streets — one reason one fitter for doors and panels; two where a wall tunnel is core-drilled and the debris has to be carried out of a flat. Fitters travelling in use Shepherd's Bush (Central, Overground).
