The N11 stock around Princess Park Manor is mainly Victorian. ONS records 47% flats, 53% houses and 4,005 households in Friern Barnet and New Southgate.
Private renting sits at 30% and owner-occupation at 60%; the first group books pathway jet washing at short notice, the second plans it.
Expect with solid brick on the party and external walls — and lath and plaster over timber studs — and with 30% of homes here privately rented, it sets the booking date as often as the job does behind the plaster in N11. That is why fixings are picked in the room rather than off a van shelf, and why a plasterboard plug spun into lime plaster; locally that also means which crumbles the key and drops the panel — and with 25% one-person households in Friern Barnet and New Southgate, one adult is usually the only pair of hands on site is the fault we are called back to undo.
Two streets can behave very differently in Friern Barnet and New Southgate: quiet residential grid around the former Colney Hatch asylum, now Princess Park Manor. The quote reflects the street the job is actually on. Friern Barnet and New Southgate is outside the Congestion Charge zone but inside ULEZ; our vehicles are compliant, so nothing is added for it.
On access, gated estate access codes at Princess Park Manor; driveways elsewhere — one reason one technician for a private path; two where a communal walkway has to stay open to residents while the work is done, so one can manage access while the other washes. Fitters travelling in use New Southgate (Great Northern).