There is no site, only a house
On most prime central London projects the site boundary is the front door. There is no laydown area, no welfare cabin on a hardstanding and often no parking. Everything that arrives must be installed or stored inside the building, which means the building has to be planned as a warehouse as well as a workplace.
Call-off, not stockpile
The response is to procure early and deliver late: fix the specification, place orders with long lead times, then call materials off against the programme in quantities that can be absorbed the same day. That requires a programme detailed enough to be trusted by suppliers, and a site team disciplined enough to keep to it.
Waste leaves as fast as it arrives
Regular waste removal is not housekeeping on a constrained site; it is the mechanism that creates working space. At Brompton Square in Knightsbridge, where storage and working space were very limited, waste was removed frequently throughout the project to maintain progress and keep the works from silting up.
Neighbours are part of the programme
Working hours, noisy works windows, scaffold alarms, dust and the state of the pavement all belong in the plan. Considerate Constructors Scheme registration formalises much of this, but the practical version is simpler: tell people what is happening before it happens, and leave the street as you found it each evening.
Protection
In a listed or high-value interior, the cost of damage exceeds the cost of the works that caused it. Protection is designed — floor protection specification, temporary partitions, dust-controlled cutting, agreed routes for materials — and it is inspected as often as the work itself.