Landlord Certificates & Repairs in Wembley

Wembley housing stock

Wembley is really two housing markets sitting side by side. Around the stadium, Quintain has been rebuilding Wembley Park since it acquired the land in 2002, under a masterplan for 8,500 homes, and says the estate is on track to become the largest single build to rent site in the UK. At the 2021 Census, 98.2% of households in Wembley Park ward lived in a purpose-built block of flats and 61.9% rented privately, against 36.0% across Brent. Shared ownership, at 5.4%, was also well above the borough figure. Outside that ward the picture changes quickly.

Tokyngton ward had 56.3% of households in semi-detached houses in 2021, and Preston ward, running up towards Kenton, had 43.2%. North of Wembley Park station, the Barn Hill estate was bought for building in 1923 by Haymills, and its first roads, Corringham Road and Barn Rise, were laid out between 1926 and 1929 in a mock-Tudor style with leaded casement windows. Wembley Central and Wembley Hill wards are mixed: roughly a third purpose-built flats, a quarter to a third semis, and about one household in ten in a house split into flats or rooms.

What that means for certificates and repairs

• In the Wembley Park blocks, much of the plumbing and wiring that serves a flat sits in risers and ceiling voids owned by the building, so the managing agent's permission and permit-to-work rules decide what can be opened up on the day
• A large part of the Quintain estate draws its heat from a shared district network rather than a gas boiler in each flat, which changes who is responsible for a cold radiator and what a gas safety record covers
• Flat entrance doors in blocks over 11 metres are fire doors that the building's responsible person has to check, so a new lock, letterbox or spyhole needs the right fire-rated parts
• The interwar semis in Tokyngton, Preston and Barn Hill bring older consumer units, altered kitchens and stored hot water, the familiar mix of faults in 1920s and 1930s houses
• Every Wembley ward except Wembley Park sits in Brent's selective licensing scheme, and Brent's licence conditions set 14-day deadlines for producing safety paperwork, so records matter as much as repairs
• Wembley's mains water is hard, at 295 mg/l in Affinity Water's 2025 report for the zone, which shortens the life of shower valves, taps and immersion elements

Getting to you

From 6 Station Parade we go down Kenton Lane, along Kenton Road and south on Preston Road, which brings us past Preston Road station into Wembley Park. Wembley Central and the High Road are a few minutes further. Preston Road, Barn Hill and North Wembley are the closest parts of the town to us. Parking is the part that needs planning. On stadium event days, when up to 90,000 people can attend, only permit holders may park in the Wembley event day zone. Restrictions run 8am to midnight on the main routes and generally 10am to midnight in residential streets outside controlled zones, and unpermitted vehicles can be ticketed or removed.

Residents in the zone but outside a controlled parking zone can buy up to two paper visitor permits for event days, so if you have one, keep it for us. On other days, many Wembley Park blocks have a concierge desk, and the concierge usually decides where a trade van can wait. For a skip or a long job in a controlled bay, Brent needs a suspension application at least seven working days ahead.

Neighbourhoods we cover in and around Wembley include Wembley Park, Wembley Central, North Wembley, Tokyngton, Preston Road, Barn Hill and Wembley Hill.

Nearby areas we cover: Kenton, Harrow, Northolt and Colindale.