Wandsworth is built largely from late Victorian and Edwardian terraces, with the streets of Tooting, Earlsfield, Balham, Southfields and Battersea laid out as the railways arrived. These homes predate asbestos, but a century of modernisation has added it: textured ceiling coatings, asbestos cement flue pipes, floor tiles, garage and shed roofs, and insulating board around boilers and beneath stairs.
The borough contains significant post-war housing at Roehampton, where the large estates built through the 1950s and 1960s stand as landmarks of British modernist architecture — and were constructed at the height of asbestos specification, with insulating board partitions, communal service duct linings, soffits and boiler-house lagging typical throughout.
The Battersea and Nine Elms riverside was heavily industrial for a century, with power generation, gasworks, railway land and warehousing along the Thames. That legacy, combined with one of the largest regeneration programmes in London, means demolition and refurbishment work is continuous — and every pre-2000 structure involved requires a fully intrusive survey before work starts.
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