Kitchen renovation in Pinner

Plan the kitchen around movement, storage and services.

Start with the kitchen renovation brief

Map preparation, cooking, washing and storage before choosing cabinet fronts. Measure clearances with doors and drawers open, and decide which existing walls, floors and details belong in the finished room.

Coordinate the cabinetry with water, drainage, extraction, electrics and lighting. Confirm appliance dimensions and access for installation before the layout is signed off; structural alterations need their own design and approval checks.

The local building context

The Pinner High Street conservation area, designated in 1968, is in its appraisal’s words a remarkable survival of a medieval village, with timber-framed buildings, some listed, from as early as the 15th century. Many have brick facades and tiled roofs, often relatively steeply pitched; timber-framed walls were historically rendered or weatherboarded, and the appraisal records timber sashes, lattices and casements from every century since the 15th. The grade II* Church of St John the Baptist, with 14th- and 15th-century work, is the area’s oldest building, and 25–27 High Street was originally a Wealden hall house, rare in Middlesex.

The Pinner Hill Estate conservation area, designated in 1990, is characterised by detached houses on large plots with spacious rear gardens. After 1919, F. W. Griggs’s Country Garden Estates Ltd sold plots of at least half an acre, many houses were architect designed, and since the 1970s plots have been subdivided and houses extended or redeveloped. The appraisal records houses of up to three storeys in Art Deco, Tudor Revival, Arts and Crafts and Neo Classical inspired designs, mainly in hand-made brick, clay tile, timber and render, on roads that are private except Potter Street Hill and Potter Street.

Pinner’s population, 761 in 1801, reached 44,392 by 1951, and the Metropolitan Railway station opened behind the High Street in 1885. Pinnerwood Park is a garden-suburb estate of inter-war cottage-style houses, Waxwell Close a crescent of red-brick semi-detached houses and Moss Lane a blend of Edwardian and 1930s Arts and Crafts-style houses. Borough-wide, Harrow’s Local Plan records a greater share of whole houses, and a lower share of flats, than the London average, its evidence base finds semi-detached housing the borough’s most common type, and the Pinner Road appraisal notes several 1930s blocks of flats in the Pinner area.

Local design and consent context

The Local Plan says these SPDs and appraisals can provide further material considerations, so read the guidance for your area. For Pinner Hill, the 2009 management strategy encourages extensions at the rear and subservient to the house, protects front and side roofs from dormers and rooflights, asks for original features such as timber windows and doors to be kept and usually avoids change of use to flats. It records pressure for large extensions and hard-surfaced front gardens, and overuse of rooflights on South View Road.

Policy HO2 sets criteria for converting a house into self-contained flats, among them an internal floor area as originally built above 130 square metres, or one that could be accepted for extension to that size, at least one family-sized home of 74 square metres or more, and a site in an area of PTAL 3 to 6. Harrow’s Residential Design Guide SPD (2010), which is not statutory but is considered in planning applications, covers extensions and conversions of houses to flats.

Harrow has 909 locally listed buildings, protected by local planning policy rather than by listing; its High Street schedule marks 1 and 2 Chapel Lane, Church Cottage and Lavender Cottage at 82 Paines Lane among them. Pinner Hill Golf Course and St John the Baptist Churchyard were adopted as locally listed parks and gardens on 23 September 2021. Medieval Pinner, around the High Street, and Old Pinner Deer Park are archaeological priority areas where Historic England is consulted on development, and the Pinner Hill ice house is a scheduled monument.

Access and site planning

For an address in Harrow, the council permits noisy construction work from 8am to 6pm, Monday to Friday, and 8am to 1pm on Saturday, with none on Sundays or bank holidays, and suggests giving neighbours advance warning of the work and its duration; residents should not carry out DIY before 8am or after 8pm. In a flat, ask the managing agent about building rules on hours, deliveries and common parts; if you stay at home, agree which rooms stay in use and when water or power will be off.

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