What we see in N22
A number of the flats above Wood Green's High Road parades share a rear yard that also carries a fire escape route down from the upper floors, and that escape route has to stay clear along its full width whatever boundary treatment goes in around it. A fence or gate proposed for one of these shared yards needs positioning against the escape route first, which is a different starting point to a standard domestic garden where the only constraint is the neighbour's boundary line. The Victorian and interwar streets away from the parades don't carry this shared-yard consideration at all.
Towns & neighbourhoods in N22
Haringey Council · N4, N8, N15, N17, N22
Property: Victorian terraces (Harringay Ladder, Crouch End), 1930s semis in Muswell Hill, and post-war estates around Tottenham
Garden: long thin Victorian rear gardens with London clay and mature street trees
Near A105 Green Lanes / A503 Seven Sisters Road / A406 North Circular (5 min) / M25 J25 (20 min) · Turnpike Lane, Wood Green, Harringay (Piccadilly / Overground)
Commercial anchors: Wood Green High Road, Green Lanes (Harringay Ladder), Tottenham High Road
Haringey Council · N22
Property: Edwardian terraces near Alexandra Palace and 1960s tower blocks around the shopping centre
Garden: mid-length rear gardens with mature planting; several with rear-alley access
Near A105 High Road / A406 North Circular · Wood Green (Piccadilly line)
Commercial anchors: Wood Green High Road, The Mall
N22 shared-yard assessment
We check for a fire escape route before proposing a fence line in any shared yard behind Wood Green's parades.
Services across N22
Frequently asked — N22
Why can't a fence go anywhere in a shared N22 yard?
Where a fire escape route runs through the yard, it has to stay clear along its full width, which limits where any new fence or gate line can sit.
Is this the same for ordinary N22 gardens?
No — it's specific to yards shared by flats above the High Road parades; standard residential gardens elsewhere in N22 don't have an escape route to work around.
Who confirms where the escape route runs?
The building's fire risk assessment or managing agent will usually have this marked; we check it before proposing a layout.