The NW9 stock around The former Hendon Aerodrome and Colindale Gardens is inter-war. ONS records 80% flats, 20% houses and 7,659 households in Colindale.
Private renting sits at 35% and owner-occupation at 32%; the first group books clearance services at short notice, the second plans it.
Colindale substrates run to precast concrete panels and dense blockwork in Colindale, often with surface conduit — and with 35% of homes here privately rented, it sets the booking date as often as the job does. Nothing is drilled until the wall has been sounded, because in NW9, drilling blind into a panel with reinforcement or a buried cable behind it — measured on the walk in from Colindale (Northern) rather than assumed from a map is the mistake that costs a NW9 customer twice.
Two streets can behave very differently in Colindale: the fastest-growing new-build district in north London, around the old aerodrome. The quote reflects the street the job is actually on. Colindale is outside the Congestion Charge zone but inside ULEZ; our vehicles are compliant, so nothing is added for it.
Every new block requires booked goods lifts and loading bays; estate roads are gated. Nearest station is Colindale (Northern), and standard crews are two people with a 3.5-tonne Luton; bigger clears run two vans or return the same day rather than overfilling.
