Walk Mill Hill from Mill Hill Village and Belmont Farm outwards and the mixed-era pattern is obvious: 37% of the 9,251 households in NW7 live in flats, 63% in houses.
Private renting sits at 24% and owner-occupation at 59%; the first group books green waste removal at short notice, the second plans it.
Expect cavity brickwork outside, over timber stud partitions inside — which is why London Borough of Barnet kerb rules get settled before the van is loaded behind the plaster in NW7. That is why fixings are picked in the room rather than off a van shelf, and why a four-hole bracket with two screws in a stud and two in fresh air on these streets — the pattern behind 9,251 households inside the NW7 neighbourhood is the fault we are called back to undo.
Anyone who knows Mill Hill knows the pattern near Mill Hill Village and Belmont Farm: hilltop village, green belt and large detached family houses. We plan the NW7 visit around it. Mill Hill 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: gravel drives and gated entrances; the Ridgeway is steep and narrow in places. Mill Hill Broadway (Thameslink) is the nearest station, and two crew and a Luton on most garden clearances; three crew and a tipper where the load is mainly soil, turf or rubble and weight rather than volume decides the run.