Full Refurbishment
in Belgravia, SW1X
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We deliver Belgravia full refurbishment with architects, engineers, surveyors and builders under one fixed-price contract - design, technical coordination, procurement, directly managed site teams, Building Control, programme control and final handover through one accountable team.
Full Refurbishment in Belgravia: What You Need to Know
This is our broadest refurbishment service in Belgravia. It covers structural alterations, complete M&E replacement, new kitchens and bathrooms, joinery, flooring, and decoration in one coordinated programme — with a single project manager as your point of contact throughout. Fixed price, weekly progress reports, and a 10-year structural guarantee on completion. Belgravia properties typically include Regency stucco terraces, Grosvenor Estate townhouses, prime mansion flats.
Ultra-prime Grosvenor Estate neighbourhood with sweeping white stucco crescents. Belgrave Square, Eaton Square, and Chester Square. Westminster conservation area with the highest planning standards. A full refurbishment in Belgravia typically involves stripping the property back to its structural shell, upgrading mechanical and electrical services, reconfiguring layouts, and finishing to the highest standard — all while preserving and restoring original period features.
Our Belgravia refurbishment projects are managed through a single point of contact, coordinating architects, structural engineers, M&E specialists, and specialist subcontractors. We work within Westminster's planning and building control requirements to deliver on time and on budget.
A full refurbishment in Belgravia means taking a house back to its protected shell and rebuilding everything within it — new services, new layouts, new finishes — while the listed envelope stays exactly as the conservation framework demands. It is the deepest scope we offer, and in Westminster the back-to-brick band for a three-to-four-bedroom house runs £275,000–£475,000 excluding VAT, against £90,000–£180,000 where the work stays cosmetic.
What makes the Belgravia version singular is the approvals stack: Westminster consent, Grosvenor Estate consent, Listed Building Consent and Licence to Alter requirements can all attach to one project, and a scope this deep tends to trigger most of them at once. We map that stack before design begins, because at full-refurbishment depth the consents decide the programme as surely as the builder does.
The candidates go beyond the famous squares. Wilton Crescent sweeps in the same white-fronted manner as Cubitt's great terraces, and behind the set pieces sit the mews houses — compact homes reconfigured cleverly within a tightly-controlled envelope — and substantial mansion flats. Much of it is listed and largely leasehold on the Grosvenor Estate, which is precisely why a whole-building renewal here is planned as a consents project first and a construction project second.
What a Full Refurbishment Delivers
Many London homes are renovated piecemeal — a kitchen one year, a bathroom the next — and it shows: three eras of wiring, mismatched floor levels and no single idea holding the interior together. A full refurbishment is the opposite decision. The interior comes back to shell in one planned mobilisation, the services are renewed wholesale, and one design language is carried through every room. The package usually spans the elements below.
- Layout reconfiguration — walls repositioned, circulation improved and wasted corners turned into usable rooms
- Shell preparation — the interior opened to structure in one controlled operation, exposing defects while they are cheap to fix
- M&E renewal — electrics, heating, hot water and ventilation replaced as complete systems, not extended piecemeal
- Thermal & acoustic upgrades — insulation, draught control and sound separation added while the fabric is open
- Interior design — one palette of materials, ironmongery and colour developed for the whole house before ordering begins
- Kitchen & bathroom fit-out — designed into the new layout from day one rather than squeezed into leftover space
- Bespoke joinery — wardrobes, shelving and understair storage built to the room, matched across floors
- Lighting & decoration — layered lighting schemes and a consistent paint specification carried through to handover
How We Run Your Project
Six stages that keep a whole-house programme on rails, with every decision made before it is needed on site.
- Feasibility & measured survey — the building is recorded accurately and your ambitions tested against its constraints and your budget.
- Layout & interior concept — floor plans and the interior scheme are developed together, so the design is one idea, not two.
- Specification & fixed price — finishes, fittings and provisional sums locked into a single itemised contract sum.
- Back to shell — strip-out, structural changes and remedial repairs completed before any new installation starts.
- Rebuild & fit-out — services, plaster, kitchens, bathrooms, joinery and flooring installed in disciplined sequence.
- Styling & handover — decoration completed, systems demonstrated, and the certification file handed over with the keys.
Read the full refurbishment & interiors guide for the room-by-room breakdown and refurbish-versus-rebuild advice.
Taking a house back to shell brings the work squarely under the Building Regulations: the new wiring, heating, ventilation, structural openings and fire protection are all inspected and certified through building control in one coordinated application, which we manage from submission to completion certificate. Cutting into or loading a shared wall can also trigger notice duties under the Party Wall etc. Act 1996, and conservation-area or listed status adds consent layers in many boroughs. Our planning guide library covers the detail for your area.
Why Hampstead Renovations
A whole-house programme lives or dies on coordination, so we removed the hand-offs. The layout and interiors are designed by our in-house RIBA Chartered Architects, structure is engineered by our own team, and RICS surveying support through our sister company, Hampstead Chartered Surveyors, covers party wall and condition matters. You sign one fixed-price JCT contract with a company insured to £10M for public liability, protected by a 12-month defects period and a 10-year workmanship warranty. Send your enquiry before 2pm on a weekday and you will hear back from us the same day.
Transparent Pricing
Full refurbishments are priced by depth of work: a cosmetic refurbishment keeping the existing layout runs £650–£1,250/sqm, and a back-to-brick renovation runs £2,250–£3,250/sqm — a guide range of £650–£3,250/sqm across the service. Expect 16–32 weeks on site for a whole-house programme, with every line of the contract sum itemised before you commit.
Full Refurbishment in Belgravia: Questions
What does a full refurbishment cover in a Belgravia property?
Everything inside the protected envelope. Interiors are reconfigured and re-serviced within a strictly-protected listed shell — plant, wiring, plumbing, layouts and finishes renewed as one exercise — with the Grosvenor Estate's and listed-building requirements defining the limits of intervention before construction starts. As a Westminster benchmark, back-to-brick work on a three-to-four-bedroom house runs £275,000–£475,000 excluding VAT.
How many consents does a full refurbishment in Belgravia need?
Potentially four on a single project: Westminster consent, Grosvenor Estate consent, Listed Building Consent and a Licence to Alter can all apply at once. Full-scope work touches structure, services and fabric throughout the building, so it engages more of that stack than lighter schemes — which is why we sequence the consents strategy before the design is fixed.
Do you carry out full refurbishments of Belgravia mews houses?
Yes — the stable mews behind the squares are some of the most rewarding full-refurbishment subjects in Belgravia. They are compact houses that respond to clever reconfiguration, but they sit within a protected, tightly-controlled envelope, so the whole-house re-plan has to be achieved without leaning on external change.
Who controls what in a Belgravia full refurbishment — the council or the estate?
Both, in defined lanes. Westminster and the Grosvenor Estate each consent external change, while listed building consent governs the interiors — and since Belgravia carries a high concentration of listed buildings, it is usually the interior consent that shapes a full refurbishment most. We present one coordinated package to all three regimes.
Which Belgravia streets do your full refurbishment projects cover?
The characteristic ones: Belgrave Square, Eaton Square, Chester Square and Wilton Crescent, together with the mews behind them and the mansion flats among them. Because the stock is mostly listed and largely leasehold on the Grosvenor Estate, the street tells us a great deal about the consent route before we have seen inside the building.
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Full Refurbishment in Belgravia: Planning & Local Context
Westminster City Council · SW1X
Planning for full refurbishment in Belgravia
Whole-property refurbishment in Belgravia frequently involves conservation-area consent — and listed-building consent where applicable — so Westminster City Council assesses external alterations, windows and structural changes alongside Building Regulations, often with party wall agreements on terraced and semi-detached homes.
Westminster City Council context
Belgravia SW1X sits within Belgravia's conservation areas, and Westminster applies a demanding conservation and listed-building regime, and many mansion blocks and townhouses here are listed or sit within tightly controlled estates such as the Grosvenor, Howard de Walden and Crown estates. Belgravia sits within the Grosvenor Estate, which adds a separate licence regime on top of council consent. Our RIBA architects prepare and submit every application to Westminster City Council and handle pre-application discussions where a scheme is finely balanced.
Building Regulations
Full Refurbishment in Belgravia must satisfy Building Regulations — covering structural alterations to Part A, fire safety to Part B, thermal upgrades to Part L, and electrical and gas certification. Our in-house engineers manage Building Control from initial notice to completion certificate.
Recent work & local links
See recent Belgravia work: Carlton Lodge, Belgravia Greville House, Belgravia. Explore our Kitchen Renovation Loft Conversions in Belgravia, or the Belgravia hub.
Our in-house planning team prepares and submits every Westminster City Council application and manages building control end to end. View our planning track record →
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