Walk Friern Barnet and New Southgate from Princess Park Manor outwards and the mainly Victorian pattern is obvious: 47% of the 4,005 households in N11 live in flats, 53% in houses.
Private renting sits at 30% and owner-occupation at 60%; the first group books garden clearance at short notice, the second plans it.
Friern Barnet and New Southgate substrates run to with solid brick on the party and external walls, over lath and plaster over timber studs — where 60% owner-occupation means the same home is booked again rather than a new tenant each year. Nothing is drilled until the wall has been sounded, because a plasterboard plug spun into lime plaster; locally that also means which crumbles the key and drops the panel — the pattern behind 4,005 households inside the N11 neighbourhood 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.
Getting to the door matters as much as the job: gated estate access codes at Princess Park Manor; driveways elsewhere. New Southgate (Great Northern) is the nearest station, and two crew and a Luton or tipper; three where everything has to be carried through a hallway.