Census 2021 puts Friern Barnet and New Southgate at 4,005 households with a median age of 40. The mainly Victorian stock is owner-occupier-led, which is why 53% houses and 47% flats need different handling in N11.
Private renting sits at 30% and owner-occupation at 60%; the first group books shed clearance and removal at short notice, the second plans it.
Friern Barnet and New Southgate substrates run to with solid brick on the party and external walls, over lath and plaster over timber studs — the reality on the streets around Princess Park Manor. Nothing is drilled until the wall has been sounded, because a plasterboard plug spun into lime plaster in N11, which crumbles the key and drops the panel — and with 25% one-person households in Friern Barnet and New Southgate, one adult is usually the only pair of hands on site is the mistake that costs a N11 customer twice.
Anyone who knows Friern Barnet and New Southgate knows the pattern near Princess Park Manor: quiet residential grid around the former Colney Hatch asylum, now Princess Park Manor. We plan the N11 visit around it. Friern Barnet and New Southgate is outside the Congestion Charge zone but inside ULEZ; our vehicles are compliant, so nothing is added for it.
Gated estate access codes at Princess Park Manor; driveways elsewhere. Nearest station is New Southgate (Great Northern), and two crew and a Luton on a standard timber shed; three crew where the shed is a workshop size, the base is concrete or the only route out is through the house.