Lambeth's housing is overwhelmingly Victorian and Edwardian, with dense terraced streets running through Brixton, Herne Hill, Stockwell, Clapham and Streatham. Much of it was subdivided into flats during the 20th century, and each conversion typically brought asbestos insulating board to meter cupboards, service risers and fire-resisting linings, alongside textured ceiling coatings and asbestos cement flues.
The borough was badly damaged during the Blitz and rebuilt extensively. Post-war and 1960s–70s council estates across Kennington, Stockwell, Brixton and Clapham Park were built in the peak asbestos years, using panel systems, communal duct linings, soffit boards and boiler-house lagging that remain in place across much of the stock today.
The riverside north of the borough is under continuous redevelopment. Sustained construction around Vauxhall, Nine Elms and Waterloo, together with rolling refurbishment of Brixton's Victorian commercial parades and mid-century civic buildings, means intrusive surveying before structural works is a constant requirement for developers and landlords in Lambeth.
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