Census 2021 puts Friern Barnet and New Southgate at 4,005 households with a median age of 40. The mainly Victorian stock is owner-occupier-led, which is why 53% houses and 47% flats need different handling in N11.
30% of households rent privately and 60% own, which is why construction site clearance demand here peaks around tenancy changeovers and completion dates.
Friern Barnet and New Southgate substrates run to lath and plaster over timber studs; locally that also means with solid brick on the party and external walls — the reality on the streets around Princess Park Manor. Nothing is drilled until the wall has been sounded, because a plasterboard plug spun into lime plaster in Friern Barnet and New Southgate, which crumbles the key and drops the panel — measured on the walk in from New Southgate (Great Northern) rather than assumed from a map is the mistake that costs a N11 customer twice.
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.
Gated estate access codes at Princess Park Manor; driveways elsewhere. Nearest station is New Southgate (Great Northern), and two operatives with a 3.5t tipper as standard, scaling to four operatives and a 7.5t vehicle on strip-outs or where the waste has to be barrowed a long way to the frontage.