The NW9 stock around The former Hendon Aerodrome and Colindale Gardens is inter-war. ONS records 80% flats, 20% houses and 7,659 households in Colindale.
35% of households rent privately and 32% own, which is why all hanging and mounting services demand here peaks around tenancy changeovers and completion dates.
Walls are precast concrete panels and dense blockwork; locally that also means often with surface conduit — the reality on the streets around The former Hendon Aerodrome and Colindale Gardens, so the fixing that matters in Colindale is chosen on site — the usual failure here is in NW9, drilling blind into a panel with reinforcement or a buried cable behind it — and with 30% one-person households in Colindale, one adult is usually the only pair of hands on site.
Two streets can behave very differently in Colindale: the fastest-growing new-build district in north London, around the old aerodrome. The quote reflects the street the job is actually on. Colindale is outside the Congestion Charge zone but inside ULEZ; our vehicles are compliant, so nothing is added for it.
On access, every new block requires booked goods lifts and loading bays; estate roads are gated — one reason one fitter for a typical multi-item visit; two where anything crosses 30kg or has to be carried up a shared stairwell. Fitters travelling in use Colindale (Northern).
