Renovation builders in Hammersmith
Hammersmith is the same planning authority as Fulham, which makes it the most familiar patch we work in outside our own. The stock is a step different though: Brackenbury Village's tight artisan cottages, the larger houses around Ravenscourt Park, and a substantial stock of interwar mansion blocks. Each needs a different approach, and mansion block work in particular has a lease dimension that houses do not.
The housing stock in Hammersmith
Brackenbury Village is 1870s–1880s two-storey artisan cottages, small, solid-walled and with minimal floor void, which makes every services run a chase and every extension a tight site. Around Ravenscourt Park the houses are substantially larger Victorian villas, many subdivided into flats. The mansion blocks along the riverside and around Barons Court are 1900s–1930s, with shared risers, communal roofs and — critically — leases that govern what a leaseholder may alter.
Planning in Hammersmith & Fulham
Hammersmith and Fulham is our home authority, so the process and the officers are familiar. Brackenbury Village and parts of Ravenscourt Park are conservation areas. The distinctive constraint here is leasehold: mansion block alterations need landlord's consent under the lease as well as any statutory permission, and a licence to alter is a separate legal process that runs alongside planning and building control. We flag that at the outset because it is the thing that most often delays a flat project.
Services in Hammersmith
Each page covers what is specific to Hammersmith — the property types, the planning authority and the problems that combination throws up.
House renovations in Hammersmith
Whole-house refurbishment of Victorian and Edwardian homes, managed end to end.
Extensions in Hammersmith
Rear, side-return and wrap-around extensions that open up a Victorian ground floor.
Loft conversions in Hammersmith
Dormer, mansard and hip-to-gable conversions adding a bedroom and bathroom.
Basements in Hammersmith
Cellar conversions and full basement digs with underpinning and tanking.
Kitchens in Hammersmith
Kitchen replacement and open-plan reconfiguration, including structural openings.
Bathrooms in Hammersmith
Bathroom and en-suite refits with proper tanking, drainage and ventilation.
Period restoration in Hammersmith
Sympathetic repair of Victorian and Edwardian features, sash windows and lime plaster.
Design & build in Hammersmith
One contract from first sketch to completion — design, planning, and construction.
Renovating in Hammersmith?
Tell us what you have in mind and we will come back with an honest view on cost, timescale and what is achievable at your address.