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Fire Safety & Security Services in Hendon & Colindale

Fire risk assessments, fire alarm installation, CCTV and access control for landlords, managing agents and businesses in Hendon, West Hendon, Colindale and Grahame Park, across NW4 and NW9.

This corner of Barnet holds a Grade II listed fire station, a church with 13th century origins, a 26 storey tower at West Hendon and estates built on the former Hendon Aerodrome and police college land. Each asks something different of a fire alarm or a camera.

IDS Global has traded since 2011 and is a member of the IFSM and the FPA. From its Hayes head office, the A40, the A406 North Circular and the A41 at Brent Cross lead to Hendon.

Businesses and buildings in Hendon & Colindale

The Greater London Authority's 2025 portrait of the Colindale and Burnt Oak Opportunity Area gives it 250 hectares across Barnet and Brent and a London Plan capacity of 7,000 homes and 2,000 jobs by 2041. Barnet's Local Plan, adopted in 2025, designates Colindale a Growth Area. At Colindale Gardens, on the former Hendon Police College site, Barratt Redrow said in February 2026 that 2,888 of 4,041 homes had been delivered. Grahame Park, built on the aerodrome, began with 1,777 council homes in the 1970s. The RAF Museum on Grahame Park Way has six hangars and free entry.

In West Hendon, a late 1960s estate of about 680 homes gave way to Hendon Waterside, whose 26 storey Hawfinch House stands 85 metres tall, and a 2018 planning approval added a 28 storey tower as part of 732 more homes. Middlesex University's Hendon campus on The Burroughs has over 12,000 students. Barnet designates four industrial sites in the Colindale area, including Colindale Technology Park, Hurricane Industrial Park and Propeller Way, and the GLA counted more than 11,000 jobs there in 2023, mostly in public administration and health.

Fire Risk Assessments in Hendon and Colindale

GOV.UK defines a higher-risk building in occupation as one of at least 18 metres or seven storeys with two or more homes. Hawfinch House clears that height easily, but lower blocks in West Hendon and Colindale need measuring rather than assuming. We check each block against both tests and record the result, so the assessment reflects the right regime.

Landlords letting near the Middlesex University campus should also expect each shared house that qualifies as an HMO to be assessed for escape routes, detection and fire doors.

Fire risk assessments

Fire Alarm Installation in Hendon and Colindale

In June 2026 a lithium-ion power bank charger set fire to a fourth floor room in a flat on The Concourse, Colindale. Nobody was hurt, but the rest of the flat was damaged by smoke, and in a block a fire in one home puts the neighbours at risk too.

We design detection so that the flat, the shared corridor and any shop or office at ground level work as one scheme, with sounders and panel information that a caretaker can act on quickly.

Fire alarm installation

CCTV Installation in Hendon and Colindale

Police.uk data for August 2025 to July 2026, counted inside Metropolitan Police neighbourhood boundaries, shows about 513 shoplifting offences in West Hendon and 340 in Hendon, against 48 in Colindale North and 38 in Colindale South. Colindale South stands out instead for burglary, at about 159.

We cover shop floors, tills and service yards on West Hendon Broadway and Hendon's parades, and cycle stores, car parks and communal entrances at residential blocks, with recording the police can use.

CCTV installation

Access Control in Hendon and Colindale

Where units on an industrial estate share a road or yard, a fob or card system on each unit's door and gate shows who entered and when, and a lost fob can be cancelled without changing locks. The same approach suits communal doors, bike stores and plant rooms in the newer residential blocks.

Access control

Colindale Opportunity Area and Grahame Park

The GLA's 2025 portrait describes the Colindale and Burnt Oak area as largely built out, and names the Public Health England site as a further opportunity for more than 400 homes once its planned move happens. It also calls the Colindale and The Hyde centre vehicle dominated, with poor public realm. Grahame Park saw its first family move in on 23 October 1971, and residents approved its regeneration in 2003. With building phased beside occupied blocks, escape routes and shared alarm links can change, so assessments need a review at each phase.

Hendon Church End conservation area and the listed fire station

Barnet designated the Church End conservation area on 27 July 1983. Its 2012 appraisal counts four listed buildings, graded II or II*, nine listed tombs in the churchyard, and two locally listed buildings, The Chequers and Church House. The Greyhound Inn has stood on its site since 1676. Barnet is the authority for listed building consent, and works that affect a listed building's special interest without it are a criminal offence. Hendon fire station on The Burroughs, built in 1911 and opened in 1914, has been Grade II listed since April 2002.

Recorded crime in Hendon, West Hendon and Colindale

We counted police.uk street-level crimes inside four Metropolitan Police neighbourhood boundaries for August 2025 to July 2026, using simplified boundaries, so figures are approximate. Hendon recorded about 2,782 crimes, including 340 shoplifting, 291 vehicle crimes and 128 burglaries. West Hendon recorded about 2,815, with 513 shoplifting, 242 vehicle crimes and 109 burglaries. Colindale South recorded about 2,309, with 159 burglaries and 130 vehicle crimes. Colindale North recorded about 1,083, with 61 vehicle crimes and 36 burglaries.

Hendon fire station and false alarm calls

Hendon is one of four London Fire Brigade stations in Barnet, at 91 The Burroughs, NW4. On 9 January 2026 four engines and about 25 firefighters, mobilised from Finchley, West Hampstead and Willesden, tackled a house fire on Queens Way that damaged most of the ground floor and part of the first floor and loft.

The Brigade does not attend automatic alarms between 7am and 8.30pm unless a call confirms a fire, but it always attends flats, HMOs, student accommodation, schools and listed buildings. Offices and industrial units are in the first group.

Services available in Hendon & Colindale

Frequently asked questions

Will my Hendon or Colindale rental need a selective licence?

Barnet's consultation on selective licensing ran until 15 September 2026 and proposed it for ten wards, including Hendon, West Hendon, Colindale North and Colindale South. Two earlier proposals, in 2021 and 2023, were not implemented, so check the council for the outcome. HMO licensing already applies borough wide: mandatory at five or more occupants, and the additional scheme since 27 October 2022 for smaller shared houses.

How do we reduce lithium battery fire risk in a Colindale block?

The Brigade traced the June 2026 fire on The Concourse to a failed lithium-ion battery in a power bank charger. Four engines and about 25 firefighters attended the fourth floor fire. Managing agents can remind residents about safe charging, cover battery and bike storage in the block's fire risk assessment, and have communal detection tested during routine visits.

Will the fire brigade attend our Colindale unit if the alarm sounds at midday?

Not unless someone confirms a fire. Between 7am and 8.30pm the Brigade does not attend automatic alarms from offices and industrial units, though it does attend at other times. Your procedure should name who checks the panel, who calls 999 and where staff gather, and each unit on a shared estate should agree the same routine.

Can I add an alarm or camera to a listed building at Church End?

Only with care. Barnet is the listed building authority, and Church End has four listed buildings and two locally listed ones, including The Chequers pub. Unauthorised works that affect special interest are a criminal offence. We survey first, keep cable runs and fixings to a minimum, and prepare drawings you can send to the council before any work begins.