Walk Highgate from Highgate Cemetery outwards and the Georgian and early Victorian pattern is obvious: 65% of the 5,593 households in N6 live in flats, 35% in houses.
Owner-occupation runs at 51% in Highgate, so alongside the 37% rental churn there is steady planned work — refurbishments, downsizes and probate clearances booked weeks ahead.
Highgate substrates run to with solid brick on the party and external walls, over lath and plaster over timber studs — where 51% 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 which crumbles the key and drops the panel, over a plasterboard plug spun into lime plaster — and with 34% one-person households in Highgate, one adult is usually the only pair of hands on site is the mistake that costs a N6 customer twice.
Two streets can behave very differently in Highgate: hilltop village of Georgian houses, the cemetery and Waterlow Park. The quote reflects the street the job is actually on. Highgate is outside the Congestion Charge zone but inside ULEZ; our vehicles are compliant, so nothing is added for it.
On access, steep, narrow lanes where a Luton is the practical limit, plus listed-building constraints — 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 Highgate (Northern).
