Soft strip, structural demolition and site clearance across London and the South East. Planned top-down, run clean and handed back level — with the paperwork to prove it.
London City Demolition is a demolition contractor based in Bexley, south-east London. We strip out, take down and clear sites for main contractors, developers and property owners — from offices in the Square Mile to garage blocks on the Kent border.
We take buildings apart in reverse: services off, fit-out out, then the structure floor by floor from the top. It takes longer to describe than knocking a building over. On the day it's quicker, because nothing happens that we hadn't planned for.
Take one, or hand us the whole sequence from strip-out to a level slab. Same crew, same programme, one point of contact from first survey to final waste report.
Back to shell
Ceilings, partitions, floors, finishes and redundant services removed back to shell or frame — for a refurbishment, or as stage one of a demolition.
Top-down
Full and partial demolition of concrete, steel, masonry and timber structures — by hand, remote-controlled machine or excavator, whichever suits the slab and the neighbours.
To formation level
Slabs, foundations, basements and hardstanding broken out, obstructions grubbed up, and the site cleared and levelled for the next trade.
Segregated at source
Materials sorted as they come down, concrete crushed for reuse where space allows, metals to merchants — and every load on paper.
How a typical concrete frame comes down with us. Scroll to take it apart — and watch where every tonne goes.
Illustrative nine-storey concrete frame, about 5,400 m² — quantities are typical for this kind of building, not a record of a specific project.
In London, demolition happens three metres from somebody's kitchen window. These are the rules every one of our sites runs by.
Surveys, temporary works and the method statement are agreed before we mobilise, then walked through with the crew on site. If the plan changes, the paperwork changes first.
Water suppression on every cut, sheeting on the scaffold, pulverisers instead of breakers wherever we can, and monitors at the boundary. Working hours agreed with the borough — and kept.
Every operative holds a valid CSCS or CCDO card. Daily briefings, permits for hot works, exclusion zones on every lift.
Letters before we start, a named contact on the hoarding, wheel washing on the way out and a swept road at the end of every shift.
Terraces, party walls, live buildings next door, no room for a crane. We lift compact machines onto the slab and work down from there.
We're based in Bexley, half an hour by train from London Bridge, and work across all 32 boroughs and the City of London — plus north Kent, south Essex and Surrey.
Check your postcodeMost of our work comes from people who build things and need the site ready on a date. Some of it comes from people who just need one awkward structure gone, properly.
Demolition and enabling packages delivered under your CDM regime, your programme and your paperwork.
From vacant possession to a clean, level plot ready for piling — one price, one programme.
Cat A and Cat B strip-outs, in occupied buildings, out of hours when the tenants need it.
Strip back to shell between tenants, dilapidations works, unsafe structures made safe.
Garage blocks, void properties and estate renewal phases, with residents still living next door.
Outbuildings, extensions and partial demolition ahead of a rebuild — done properly, with the notices served.
Send us the address and a few photos. We'll visit, survey and come back with a fixed price and a programme — usually within the week.