Local knowledge with a purpose
Understand the building before changing it
Establish what kind of building you have before choosing finishes. An early twentieth-century house, a flat above a listed parade and a 1930s mansion-block apartment each raise different questions about fabric, tenure and consent.
Barnet’s August 2011 appraisal of the Golders Green Town Centre Conservation Area records that development began about two years before the station opened in 1907. Between 1907 and 1911 roads were laid out and some 744 homes built, and the appraisal describes two building phases, 1907–1918 and 1924–30. Record the age, construction and later alterations of your own building rather than assuming one local type.
Golders Green Town Centre Conservation Area appraisal, August 2011
Barnet describes the conservation area as the town centre together with the railway and bus/coach station. The appraisal identifies parades of shops with apartments and flats above as the main building type and counts seven listed buildings; the Cheapside and The Promenade parades, 78 retail units in all, are listed Grade II. For a flat above a shop, the survey brief should also cover any listing, the lease terms and the shared services.
Barnet: Golders Green conservation area · Golders Green Town Centre Conservation Area appraisal, August 2011 · Historic England: listed-building consent · LEASE: alterations and home improvements
Other buildings raise their own questions: West Heath Court, built in 1936, is a five-storey block of mansion flats in brick and stone, and The Parade on North End Road is two storeys in red brick with slate and lead roofs. Much of Golders Green is residential streets, so check whether your address is inside a conservation area on Barnet’s maps.
Golders Green Town Centre Conservation Area appraisal, August 2011 · Barnet conservation areas, appraisals and maps · Golders Green conservation area boundary map
The first local check
Let the address, not the NW11 postcode, decide
Golders Green describes where we work, not the rules for a particular home. Confirm the council through the official lookup, then check Barnet’s conservation maps, the Golders Green boundary map, the listing, any Article 4 direction and the planning history; neither the neighbourhood name nor an NW11 postcode settles the conservation boundary or the consent route.
Find the council for the property · Barnet conservation areas, appraisals and maps · Golders Green conservation area boundary map · Article 4 directions in Barnet · Historic England: listed-building consent