The NW2 stock around Cricklewood Broadway is mainly Edwardian. ONS records 74% flats, 26% houses and 4,362 households in Cricklewood.
47% of households rent privately and 34% own, which is why construction site clearance demand here peaks around tenancy changeovers and completion dates.
Expect dot-and-dab plasterboard over blockwork in NW2, with metal stud partitions between rooms — and with 34% one-person households in Cricklewood, one adult is usually the only pair of hands on site behind the plaster in NW2. 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 — which is why London Borough of Brent kerb rules get settled before the van is loaded is the fault we are called back to undo.
Anyone who knows Cricklewood knows the pattern near Cricklewood Broadway: broadway shops on the A5, with Edwardian terraces and the Brent Cross works beyond. We plan the NW2 visit around it. Cricklewood is outside the Congestion Charge zone but inside ULEZ; our vehicles are compliant, so nothing is added for it.
A5 red route, permit bays and terraced streets with tight parking. Nearest station is Cricklewood (Thameslink), 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.