Ealing grew fastest exactly when asbestos use was becoming universal. The interwar suburban expansion of Greenford, Perivale, Northolt and Hanwell — driven by the Central line and the A40 — produced tens of thousands of 1930s semi-detached homes with asbestos cement garage roofs, soffits, rainwater goods, cold water tanks and airing-cupboard panels fitted as standard.
The borough contains part of Park Royal, the largest industrial estate in London. Factories, warehouses, food-production units and workshops built there from the 1930s through the 1970s made heavy use of corrugated asbestos cement roofing, sprayed coatings to structural steel, pipe and boiler lagging and insulating board partitions. Units are continuously re-let, refitted and redeveloped — and every pre-2000 building needs surveying before that work starts.
Ealing's older stock adds a further layer: Victorian and Edwardian terraces in Acton, Ealing Broadway and West Ealing carry textured coatings, cement flues and floor tiles from decades of modernisation, while Southall's dense terraced streets and commercial premises combine both patterns. With Crossrail-driven regeneration around all the borough's Elizabeth line stations, refurbishment and demolition surveys are in constant demand.
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