Pest Control Honor Oak

Pest Control in Honor Oak

Honor Oak sits in the SE postcode of south-east London, straddling the border of Lewisham and Southwark. The neighbourhood is built around One Tree Hill and the surrounding streets, with the green space of Camberwell Old Cemetery and Brockley Cemetery adding to the area's leafy character. The housing is predominantly Victorian and Edwardian terraces, many converted into flats, with some later infill. These older properties have the pest challenges that come with their age. Mice move through shared party walls, connected roof voids and along pipe runs, travelling between properties in a terrace without anyone knowing until droppings appear in a kitchen or scratching is heard at night.

One Tree Hill and the cemeteries provide green habitat right in the middle of the residential area and brown rats live in the overgrown sections of the cemeteries, in the rough ground on the hill and along the railway embankments that cut through the area. From there they move into the gardens and bin storage areas of nearby houses. The railway lines connecting Honor Oak Park and Brockley stations run through cuttings and embankments that give rats undisturbed habitat and clear corridors to travel along. Food waste from the local shops and restaurants adds to the draw.

Grey squirrels are common in the mature trees on One Tree Hill and in the cemetery grounds and they regularly get into the roof spaces of houses in the surrounding streets. Squirrel damage to wiring in lofts is a real concern in the period properties here. Wasp nests turn up in the complex rooflines and garden structures every summer and the combination of Victorian architecture and mature trees provides plenty of nesting opportunities. Honor Oak is a characterful part of south-east London, but the mix of old housing, green spaces and railways creates a pest environment that is always active.