The N22 stock around Alexandra Palace is mainly Victorian. ONS records 68% flats, 32% houses and 5,861 households in Wood Green.
Owner-occupation runs at 32% in Wood Green, so alongside the 43% rental churn there is steady planned work — refurbishments, downsizes and probate clearances booked weeks ahead.
Expect with metal stud partitions between rooms — and dot-and-dab plasterboard over blockwork — and with 43% of homes here privately rented, it sets the booking date as often as the job does behind the plaster in N22. That is why fixings are picked in the room rather than off a van shelf, and why short screws that grip only the board and slowly lever it off the dabs on these streets — and with 32% one-person households in Wood Green, one adult is usually the only pair of hands on site is the fault we are called back to undo.
Anyone who knows Wood Green knows the pattern near Alexandra Palace: the Mall shopping centre, Turkish and Greek high street and Alexandra Park behind. We plan the N22 visit around it. Wood Green is outside the Congestion Charge zone but inside ULEZ; our vehicles are compliant, so nothing is added for it.
High Road red route, shopping-centre service yards and estate lift booking. Nearest station is Wood Green (Piccadilly), and 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.