Walk Primrose Hill from Primrose Hill summit outwards and the mainly Victorian pattern is obvious: 80% of the 3,616 households in NW1 live in flats, 20% in houses.
Private renting sits at 32% and owner-occupation at 35%; the first group books rubbish removal at short notice, the second plans it.
Walls are precast concrete panels and dense blockwork; locally that also means often with surface conduit — the reality on the streets around Primrose Hill summit, so the fixing that matters in Primrose Hill is chosen on site — the usual failure here is in NW1, drilling blind into a panel with reinforcement or a buried cable behind it — with 33% social-rented stock locally, block access is agreed with the estate office first.
Two streets can behave very differently in Primrose Hill: pastel terraces around the hill with the best skyline view in north London. The quote reflects the street the job is actually on. Primrose Hill sits inside the Congestion Charge zone as well as ULEZ, so both are itemised on the quote rather than absorbed into an hourly rate.
On access, very narrow streets, resident bays all week and steep basement stairs on nearly every terrace — 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 Chalk Farm (Northern).
