Professional cleaning in Brent

Almost every private let in Brent needs a licence. Selective licensing reaches all wards bar one, Wembley Park, and came in two designations, each lasting five years. The first, from 1 August 2023, took in three wards: Dollis Hill, Willesden Green and the combined Harlesden and Kensal Green ward. The second, starting 1 April 2024, covers the remaining 18. Brent has also run an additional HMO scheme from 2 February 2026 for homes where three or four people from at least two households share. A landlord with several flats in the borough will usually hold a licence for each.

Every one of those lets changes hands sooner or later. For an end of tenancy clean, a studio starts at £156 and a two-bedroom flat at £243, and a double oven or 90cm range can be added for £62. If the flat is let furnished, a mattress can be cleaned during the same visit for £35.

Of Brent’s 22 wards, only Wembley Park has no selective licensing, and it is also the most rented. Private tenants were 61.9 per cent of its households in 2021, more than in any other Brent ward, and only 14.0 per cent owned their home. Much of it is new. Quintain, the developer, puts its delivery so far at almost 6,000 homes, one in three affordable, with outline consent for 8,500, and describes Wembley Park as Britain’s biggest build-to-rent scheme on a single site. Wembley Central, Wembley Hill and Tokyngton, the other wards counted here, have been in designation 2 from 1 April 2024.

Plan around the stadium. When Wembley Stadium has an event, only permit holders can park in the event day zone. Restrictions last until midnight, starting at 8am on the main routes to the stadium and generally at 10am in other streets outside the controlled zones, so a visiting car cannot use the street there. Pick another day if you can. When a new block is handed over, an after builders clean deals with plaster dust and paint spots on glass and fittings, from £212. Affinity Water’s Wembley zone gives the stadium 295 mg/l, so professional cleaning here includes descaling too.

Stonebridge has already been rebuilt once. The estate of more than 2,000 homes was mostly high-rise blocks from 1967; the Stonebridge Housing Action Trust rebuilt it after 2000 as two- and three-storey houses, plus four-storey flats on the street corners. A three-storey house means two flights of stairs, and the stair carpet wears fastest. Our carpet cleaning charges £41 a flight and £9 a landing, with portable hot water extraction machines.

Central Harlesden is older. Its houses went up between late Victorian times and the 1930s, most terraces before 1920, and many flats are conversions of them. The town centre around NW10 4NE became a conservation area in March 1994. Social renting is the largest tenure, 43.7 per cent of households in 2021, with 30.6 per cent renting privately. Harlesden and Kensal Green ward has been licensed from 1 August 2023 and Stonebridge from 1 April 2024. Thames Water’s Harlesden zone gave the High Street a mean of 270 mg/l, enough to leave a white edge round the bath between visits. For professional cleaning in a converted terrace, let us know the floor and whether the flat has its own street door.

Two places share the name. Brent’s Queen’s Park grew from the north side of Harvist Road, mostly finished by 1899, with many different builders giving Kempe, Keslake and Chamberlayne Roads their mixed look. The Queen’s Park Estate of the 1870s, south of it, is in Westminster, so say which one you mean when you book. Queens Park ward holds three conservation areas, Queens Park (30 June 1986), Kensal Green (March 1990) and Kensal Rise (27 May 2024).

No Brent ward had more terraced houses at the census, 27.8 per cent of households, while flats in converted or shared houses held 34.1 per cent. Owners made up 43.6 per cent. A terraced house on two or three floors suits a regular domestic cleaning rota, costing £23 an hour for weekly visits (fortnightly is £24). The ward has been in designation 2 from 1 April 2024, so a single-household let here needs a licence. Victorian houses and the flats made from them are the usual homes for professional cleaning here, and the water near the station is from the same Thames Water zone as Kilburn.

Neasden has no ward of its own, so this section covers Dollis Hill and Welsh Harp wards. The North Circular Road, opened in 1922 and 1923, set off a wave of building here. By 1935 the last farm had been built over, and a year later Neasden Shopping Parade opened. Dollis Hill, around the 35 hectares of Gladstone Park, is mainly Edwardian terraces and semis of the 1920s and 1930s. The Neasden Village conservation area (November 1987) is in Welsh Harp ward and Homestead Park (1993) in Dollis Hill.

The two wards sit in different licensing designations: Dollis Hill in the first, from 1 August 2023, and Welsh Harp in the second, from 1 April 2024. Owners were 42.7 per cent of households in 2021 and private tenants 37.1 per cent, and terraces housed almost one in five (19.9 per cent). For a family let, professional cleaning of a three-bedroom terrace at the end of the tenancy starts at £339, and a living room carpet can be added at £36. Thames Water supplies Neasden station from its Willesden Central zone, averaging 265 mg/l.