Census 2021 puts Golders Green at 7,269 households with a median age of 33.9. The inter-war stock is renter-heavy, which is why 45% houses and 55% flats need different handling in NW11.
Private renting sits at 49% and owner-occupation at 45%; the first group books shed clearance and removal at short notice, the second plans it.
Golders Green substrates run to dot-and-dab plasterboard over blockwork; locally that also means with metal stud partitions between rooms — and with 33% one-person households in Golders Green, one adult is usually the only pair of hands on site. Nothing is drilled until the wall has been sounded, because short screws that grip only the board and slowly lever it off the dabs on these streets — and garden suburb trust rules on frontages, narrow service lanes and a busy bus station gyratory is the mistake that costs a NW11 customer twice.
Anyone who knows Golders Green knows the pattern near Hampstead Garden Suburb: kosher bakeries, the crematorium and Hampstead Garden Suburb next door. We plan the NW11 visit around it. Golders Green is outside the Congestion Charge zone but inside ULEZ; our vehicles are compliant, so nothing is added for it.
On access, garden Suburb Trust rules on frontages, narrow service lanes and a busy bus station gyratory — one reason 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. Fitters travelling in use Golders Green (Northern).