Walk Highgate from Highgate Cemetery outwards and the Georgian and early Victorian pattern is obvious: 65% of the 5,593 households in N6 live in flats, 35% in houses.
37% of households rent privately and 51% own, which is why warehouse clearance demand here peaks around tenancy changeovers and completion dates.
Highgate substrates run to with solid brick on the party and external walls — and lath and plaster over timber studs — and steep, narrow lanes where a luton is the practical limit, plus listed-building constraints. Nothing is drilled until the wall has been sounded, because a plasterboard plug spun into lime plaster in Highgate, which crumbles the key and drops the panel — which is why London Borough of Haringey kerb rules get settled before the van is loaded is the mistake that costs a N6 customer twice.
Anyone who knows Highgate knows the pattern near Highgate Cemetery: hilltop village of Georgian houses, the cemetery and Waterlow Park. We plan the N6 visit around it. Highgate is outside the Congestion Charge zone but inside ULEZ; our vehicles are compliant, so nothing is added for it.
On access, steep, narrow lanes where a Luton is the practical limit, plus listed-building constraints — one reason four operatives with a 7.5t tail-lift vehicle on a standard unit, scaling to six with a second vehicle where the handover date is tight. Fitters travelling in use Highgate (Northern).