Landlord Certificates & Repairs in Colindale

Colindale housing stock

Colindale has been rebuilt within living memory, mostly on land that used to belong to the RAF and the police. Grahame Park came first: a joint Greater London Council and Barnet scheme on part of the former Hendon Aerodrome, approved in 1964, whose first family moved in on 23 October 1971. It had 1,777 council homes, and residents voted for full regeneration in 2003. The private-led building followed. On the former RAF East Camp beside the RAF Museum, St George bought the land in 2003, Barnet approved the plans in April 2005, and Beaufort Park grew into a neighbourhood of 3,337 homes, with the last phase of 485 homes occupied from 2024.

To the north, Redrow's Colindale Gardens is being built on the Metropolitan Police's former training ground at the Peel Centre; a third phase of 1,200 flats was approved in 2021, taking the planned total to about 4,000 homes. The Census shows the result. In 2021, purpose-built flats made up 74.5% of homes in Colindale South and 64.9% in Colindale North; detached houses were under 3% in both. Tenure differs sharply between the two wards. Colindale South was 43.5% private rented, 34.5% owner-occupied and 4.1% shared ownership. Colindale North, which includes Grahame Park, was 42.6% social rented, about half of that from the council, with 26.0% private rented.

What that means for certificates and repairs

• Most homes are leasehold flats, so the lease decides what you may alter and the managing agent controls the communal pipes, roof, risers and entrances
• Blocks finished in the last few years may still be inside the developer's two-year warranty period, so snags should go to the developer first, while that cover lasts
• New flats have plasterboard walls, push-fit plumbing and boxed-in pipes, so fixings and leak tracing work differently from the older houses in Hendon or Kingsbury
• Concierge desks, fobs, loading bays and lift bookings shape how a visit runs, and some buildings limit noisy work to set hours
• With 43.5% of Colindale South households renting privately, a lot of work is end-of-tenancy snagging and tenant-reported faults for landlords and agents
• Affinity Water's Colindale/Kingsbury zone measured 333 mg/l hardness in 2025, so even brand-new showers and taps scale up within a few years

Getting to you

From Kenton Lane we head east along Kenton Road and Kingsbury Road to the Edgware Road, then into Colindale; it is about four miles. Beaufort Park and the blocks along Aerodrome Road and Colindale Avenue are closest, with Colindale Gardens and Grahame Park a little further north. Parking is the main practical issue. Barnet began an experimental Colindale South controlled parking zone on 27 October 2025, running 8am to 6.30pm on weekdays, and many developments have private roads with their own permits.

Tell us whether there is a visitor bay, a loading area or a concierge who can sign us in, and whether we need to book the lift. Urgent jobs in Colindale are attended the same day within opening hours, Monday to Saturday; on a Sunday we respond to emergency calls only.

Neighbourhoods we cover in and around Colindale include Beaufort Park, Colindale Gardens and Grahame Park.

Nearby areas we cover: Hendon, Edgware, Mill Hill, Kenton and Wembley.