SW8
SW8 — Nine Elms, Vauxhall and South Lambeth
New Covent Garden Market starts work when everything else stops, and that alone makes SW8 unlike the districts around it. Vans and lorries move through the small hours, the road surfaces near the market take real punishment, and a commercial tyre that fails at four in the morning is not something that can wait for a garage to open. Around it, Nine Elms and the US Embassy sit in the middle of a construction landscape that changes every few months, with the screws and nails that come with it.
What we work on in SW8
6 places in this district, grouped by what they are.
Stations and transport
- Wandsworth Road
Retail and business
- New Covent Garden Market
Parks, landmarks and institutions
- US Embassy
Streets and estates
- Nine Elms
- South Lambeth
- Vauxhall
Getting to you
Around the market the traffic pattern is inverted, so the quietest hours on paper are the busiest in practice. Some roads near the US Embassy have security restrictions on stopping, and Wandsworth Road is a through-route with very limited standing. South Lambeth has residential streets that give us room if you can name the nearest junction.
Stopped somewhere in SW8?
Tell us the vehicle, the tyre size if you can see it, and exactly where the car is standing. We will say what we can do before anyone sets off.