Street-level notes from cleaning ovens across all 33 London boroughs: the housing each one hands us, the cookers inside it and where the van can stop, with every borough linked to its full guide.
We put this page together in 2026 from our own coverage research and the working notes behind our 33 borough guides. Treat it as a technician's sketch rather than a survey: the rows hold what we meet behind front doors and at kerbsides, and we correct them as we learn streets better.
Thirty-three boroughs at a glance
| Borough | Kitchens we meet | Parking reality |
|---|---|---|
| Barking and Dagenham | Reworked Becontree terraces with freestanding gas cookers; Barking Riverside hands over integrated singles. | Four new CPZs across 100-plus roads this year; Becontree streets stay wide. |
| Barnet | Interwar semis set the weekly pattern; AGAs surface toward The Bishops Avenue. | Station CPZs, one running a single afternoon hour at Totteridge and Whetstone. |
| Bexley | New Ideal Homesteads semis built cheap in the thirties; Rangemasters out at North Cray. | No tube, DLR or tram; almost every kitchen sits behind a driveway. |
| Brent | Slot-in gas cookers in Harlesden conversions; integrated singles across Wembley Park's 6,000 flats. | Stadium event days override the CPZ and resident permits do not exempt. |
| Bromley | Ranges and the odd AGA in Bickley and Chislehurst; thirties semis fill Petts Wood. | CPZs stick to the town centres; suburban drives and kerbs are unrestricted. |
| Camden | AGAs in Hampstead conservation streets, compact integrated ovens on Kentish Town estates. | Every street zoned CA-something; steep narrow Hampstead lanes mean longer carries. |
| City of London | Barbican and Golden Lane listed flats; eye-level ovens in tight housings. | No vehicle access inside the Barbican, so parts walk the highwalks. |
| Croydon | Integrated singles fill the East Croydon towers; the Webb Estate hides AGAs. | Central permit zone plus outer CPZs; Selsdon and Shirley park on driveways. |
| Ealing | Edwardian villas east, slot-in cookers toward Southall, AGAs around Pitshanger Village. | Station zones Q, QQ and V; Greenford residents voted a new one down. |
| Enfield | Freestanding cookers sit in Palmers Green chimney breasts; Rangemasters up The Ridgeway. | Controlled zones keep spreading through Edmonton Green, Lower Edmonton and Bowes Park. |
| Greenwich | 90cm ranges in the Crooms Hill townhouses; Royal Arsenal flats go integrated. | Fifty-plus zones, permits priced on emissions; Eltham's suburban kerbs stay easier. |
| Hackney | Rangemasters hide in Stoke Newington terraces; estate flats keep plain freestanding singles. | Over half the borough zoned; peak-hour street closures, market-day loading crushes. |
| Hammersmith and Fulham | Chimney-breast ranges in the bay-fronted terraces; Television Centre flats, integrated singles. | Lettered zones nearly wall to wall; tight turnings off Goldhawk Road. |
| Haringey | Ranges and AGAs in the leafy west; integrated singles near White Hart Lane. | Zone hours swing hard: Muswell Hill two hours, Wood Green 8am–10pm. |
| Harrow | Two-thirds Metro-land semis, freestanding cookers; AGAs on the Hill and around Pinner. | Wealdstone's Permit C runs Monday to Saturday; Pinner semis keep their drives. |
| Havering | Some 38,600 interwar homes, freestanding cookers and built-in doubles; Emerson Park's acre plots, AGAs. | Leaseholder bays complicate Romford; the green-belt half offers a driveway or quiet kerb. |
| Hillingdon | Metroland stock off Swakeleys Drive; EMI and Nestle factory sites hold integrated singles. | Uxbridge zone rings the terminus; most Metroland roads bring their own drive. |
| Hounslow | Bedford Park keeps cast-iron AGAs; compact Feltham kitchens run to slot-in singles. | Planning conditions bar many new Brentford flats from any parking permit. |
| Islington | Georgian squares carved into flats long ago; pyrolytics in newer Clerkenwell blocks. | Twenty-six zones lettered A to Z; Arsenal home games shut Highbury bays. |
| Kensington and Chelsea | Mews cottages, portered mansion flats and more AGAs than most boroughs. | Borough-wide permits, day-long single-yellow restrictions, a red route down King's Road. |
| Kingston upon Thames | Wall-set doubles in Norbiton's Victorian rows; ranges behind Coombe's private roads. | Zones in Surbiton and the town centre; off-street and easy at Coombe. |
| Lambeth | Victorian terraces suit a 90cm Rangemaster; Nine Elms towers, integrated singles throughout. | Around two dozen zones, heaviest north; short walks off Abbeville Road. |
| Lewisham | Dockworkers' terraces on sixteen-foot plots; 90cm ranges up in Forest Hill. | Kerbs tighten by Deptford High Street and New Cross Gate; Grove Park stays easy. |
| Merton | Wimbledon villas hold ranges and AGAs; St Helier cottage kitchens, compact ovens. | Village and town-centre zones Monday to Saturday; driveways out on St Helier. |
| Newham | Corbett-built Woodgrange terraces cook on freestanding ranges; East Village flats, all integrated. | Resident zones, market-day squeezes at Queen's Market; Stratford multi-storey as fallback. |
| Redbridge | Bay-fronted thirties semis, cookers where the back boiler stood; Wanstead AGAs. | Zoning covers only about 14 percent here; the van usually pulls up close. |
| Richmond upon Thames | Period houses on both banks of the Thames; AGAs toward Petersham and Castelnau. | Zones cover most residential streets; Twickenham match days suspend the normal bays. |
| Southwark | Integrated singles at Shad Thames warehouse flats; the AGAs live in Dulwich. | Solid zoning from Borough through Peckham; Dulwich adds private roads, a tollgate. |
| Sutton | Built-under doubles in the Cheam semis; abbey-named St Helier roads, compact singles. | Four CPZs in the whole borough, hugging the High Street and station. |
| Tower Hamlets | The widest split we cover: Bow terraces against E14 towers of singles. | Zones A to D control every street; ULEZ here since 2021. |
| Waltham Forest | E17 terraces were bedsits fifteen years ago, hence the ranges; Chingford leans AGA. | Mini-Holland bollards filter Walthamstow Village, so racks travel further on foot. |
| Wandsworth | Double-fronted Heaver-fringe houses take 90cm ranges; integrated singles at Battersea Power Station. | Permit bays or pay-and-display almost everywhere; new developments carved out of the zone. |
| Westminster | Mount Street townhouses run AGAs; lateral mansion flats sit up lifts, portered. | The tightest kerbs in London: loading bans, kerb blips, congestion charge below Marylebone Road. |
What the map shows
Read down the middle column and the range cookers sort themselves by plot size rather than by compass point, clustering wherever period houses stayed whole and gardens stayed long, which is why Dulwich, Richmond Hill, Coombe, Chislehurst, Emerson Park and Hampstead Garden Suburb keep the AGAs while Bow, Becontree and the E14 towers almost never hand us one.
Almost every flat handed over on London's regeneration land, from Barking Riverside to Nine Elms, holds the same kit: an integrated single oven, an induction or ceramic hob and a built-in hood.
The oven follows the housing. Everywhere.
Parking splits more simply. Inner boroughs control every kerb, Islington lettering its 26 zones A to Z and the City stacking a weekday congestion charge on top, while Bexley, with no tube, DLR or tram, parks nearly every job on a driveway and Redbridge zones barely a seventh of its streets. The stadiums are the odd ones out: Wembley, the Emirates and Twickenham all rewrite nearby kerbs on event days, so we check the fixture list before we book those streets.
Questions
How is this page compiled?
From our own coverage research and the working notes behind each borough guide, pulled together in 2026. Each row condenses what the fuller guide says about that borough's housing, its cookers and its kerbs. When a street proves us wrong, the row gets rewritten.
Does parking change the price?
No. Prices are fixed on the phone, a single oven at £77 and a double at £110, wherever the van ends up. A permit street, a long carry or a stadium fixture is ours to plan around and never reaches the invoice. The full list is on the prices page.
Do you cover all 33 boroughs?
Yes, all 33, the City included, seven days a week. Every borough name in the table links to its own guide, and the district-level pages sit on our areas page.