In Wood Green (N22) the split is 68% flats to 32% houses over 5,861 households, and the stock is mainly Victorian.
The renter-heavy mix here (32% owned, 43% privately rented) means a N22 diary swings between short-notice tenancy deadlines and appointments set a fortnight out.
Wood Green substrates run to dot-and-dab plasterboard over blockwork; locally that also means with metal stud partitions between rooms, the reality on the streets around Alexandra Palace. Nothing is drilled until the wall has been sounded, because Wood Green gives us short screws that grip only the board and slowly lever it off the dabs, which is why London Borough of Haringey kerb rules get settled before the van is loaded is the mistake that costs a N22 customer twice.
The Mall shopping centre, Turkish and Greek high street and Alexandra Park behind. That character decides the practical detail of green waste removal here far more than the borough boundary does. Wood Green is outside the Congestion Charge zone but inside ULEZ; our vehicles are compliant, so nothing is added for it.
On access, high Road red route, shopping-centre service yards and estate lift booking — one reason 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. Fitters travelling in use Wood Green (Piccadilly).