Sutton is one of London's most consistently interwar suburban boroughs. The building boom of the 1920s and 1930s covered Cheam, North Cheam, Worcester Park, Belmont and Carshalton Beeches with semi-detached and detached housing, built in the decades when asbestos cement became the default material for garage roofs, outbuildings, soffits, gutters and cold water storage tanks.
The borough also contains a large part of the St Helier Estate, one of the biggest cottage estates ever built by the London County Council, laid out from the late 1920s. Its houses and the associated public buildings have been maintained and modernised continuously ever since, and asbestos insulating board, textured coatings and cement products from those later programmes are widespread across the estate.
Commercially, Sutton town centre and the Beddington and Hackbridge industrial areas hold mid-century offices, warehousing and light-industrial units from the peak asbestos decades. Flat-roof coverings, sprayed coatings to steelwork, insulating board partitions and boiler-room lagging all feature regularly, making refurbishment and demolition surveys essential before any commercial strip-out in the borough.
Sutton · Cheam · North Cheam · Carshalton · Carshalton Beeches · Wallington · Belmont · Worcester Park · Hackbridge · Rosehill · Beddington · St Helier · Benhilton · The Wrythe
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