Southwark's building stock runs from riverside industry to suburban villas. The Victorian terraces of East Dulwich, Peckham, Camberwell and Nunhead are among the most sought-after in south London, and decades of loft conversions, rear extensions and boiler replacements mean asbestos textured coatings, cement flues and floor tiles turn up regularly in otherwise immaculate homes.
The north of the borough was shaped by the Surrey Commercial Docks and the warehouses of Bermondsey and Rotherhithe, and then by severe wartime bombing. The reconstruction that followed produced very large council estates around Walworth, the Old Kent Road and Elephant and Castle, built through the 1950s to 1970s when asbestos products were standard specification for insulation, fire protection and cladding.
Southwark is now one of the most actively redeveloped boroughs in London. Sustained regeneration around Elephant and Castle, Canada Water and London Bridge means demolition, strip-out and refurbishment work is continuous — and every one of those projects on a pre-2000 building requires a refurbishment and demolition survey before the first wall comes down.
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