Census 2021 puts Brockley at 6,905 households with a median age of 33.6. The mainly Victorian stock is social-housing-led, which is why 30% houses and 70% flats need different handling in SE4.
30% of households rent privately and 39% own, which is why mirror and artwork hanging demand here peaks around tenancy changeovers and completion dates.
Expect often with surface conduit, over precast concrete panels and dense blockwork — where 39% owner-occupation means the same home is booked again rather than a new tenant each year behind the plaster in SE4. That is why fixings are picked in the room rather than off a van shelf, and why in SE4, drilling blind into a panel with reinforcement or a buried cable behind it — which is why London Borough of Lewisham 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 Brockley: conservation-area streets of large Victorian villas and the Hilly Fields view. The quote reflects the street the job is actually on. Brockley is outside the Congestion Charge zone but inside ULEZ; our vehicles are compliant, so nothing is added for it.
On access, steep hills, long front paths and conversion flats up two or three flights — one reason one fitter for pictures and mirrors up to about 25kg; two for overmantels, full-length glass and anything carried up a communal stairwell. Fitters travelling in use Brockley (Overground).
