In Mill Hill (NW7) the split is 37% flats to 63% houses over 9,251 households, and the stock is mixed-era.
Because 24% of Mill Hill is privately rented and 17% socially rented, a lot of NW7 work is agreed with a landlord or managing agent rather than the person opening the door.
Mill Hill substrates run to timber stud partitions inside; locally that also means cavity brickwork outside, which is why London Borough of Barnet kerb rules get settled before the van is loaded. Nothing is drilled until the wall has been sounded, because a four-hole bracket with two screws in a stud and two in fresh air, as the Mill Hill stock goes, where 59% owner-occupation means the same home is booked again rather than a new tenant each year is the mistake that costs a NW7 customer twice.
Hilltop village, green belt and large detached family houses. That character decides the practical detail of rubbish removal here far more than the borough boundary does. Mill Hill is outside the Congestion Charge zone but inside ULEZ; our vehicles are compliant, so nothing is added for it.
On access, gravel drives and gated entrances; the Ridgeway is steep and narrow in places — one reason one person and a car for boot-loads; two crew and a 3.5-tonne Luton for anything from a quarter-load upward. Fitters travelling in use Mill Hill Broadway (Thameslink).