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Renovations in Temple Fortune

Artisans’ cottages, Suburb houses and flats above shops

Homes in Temple Fortune range from flats above the Finchley Road shops and in 1930s blocks to Arts and Crafts cottages on Temple Fortune Hill and larger houses on Temple Fortune Lane. Plan your house, flat or bathroom around the building you actually have, its tenure and the consents it needs, and bring layout, services and approvals together in a single written brief.

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Choose a focused room renovation or a coordinated refurbishment. Each service page explains the scope in more detail and gives you a direct route to discuss the work.

01 Artisans’ cottages and larger houses

House refurbishment in Temple Fortune

Whether you own an artisans’ cottage on Temple Fortune Hill or a larger house on Temple Fortune Lane, begin with a survey of what is original and what later owners changed. Our architects can then draw up one scheme covering bathrooms, heating, wiring and insulation alongside repairs to roughcast, brickwork, roof tiles and windows. Treat each change to the outside as a separate item, since Trust consent and Barnet’s controls can both apply.

  • Original fabric recorded before layouts are drawn
  • Listing, Article 4 and Trust Scheme checked for the address
  • External changes consented and priced separately
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02 Parade flats and 1930s blocks

Flat renovation in Temple Fortune

Temple Fortune’s flats include homes above the shops in the Finchley Road gateway blocks and in blocks such as Temple Fortune Court, Belmont Court and The Pantiles, where structure, drainage stacks and entrances are usually shared with neighbours. Read the lease before any layout is drawn. The Hampstead Garden Suburb Trust is freeholder of many Suburb blocks of flats, and if it holds your freehold, contact it about internal alterations; a listed block can also need listed building consent for internal changes.

  • Lease clauses on alterations read first
  • Freeholder, Trust or managing agent identified
  • Shared stacks, risers and valves located
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03 Bathrooms in cottages and flats

Bathroom renovation in Temple Fortune

We welcome a standalone bathroom renovation, whether the room is a cottage’s family bathroom on Temple Fortune Hill, an en-suite in a larger house or a flat’s only bathroom above the shops. Swapping a bath, toilet or basin like for like is exempt from building regulations approval, but installing a bathroom that involves plumbing, or changing electrics near a bath or shower, may need it. On the Suburb, a new pipe or vent on an outside wall can need Trust consent.

  • Waste fall, stack and extract route confirmed
  • Building regulations route agreed before work
  • A second bathroom or shower to use meanwhile
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Real projects, clearly located

Ideas for your Temple Fortune refurbishment

Photographs of our work elsewhere in London

Explore a whole house in Belsize Park, an apartment on Chesterfield Street in Mayfair and a bathroom in Pimlico. Use these examples to discuss the scale of work and finishes you have in mind for your own home.

Completed exterior at Belsize Park Gardens after refurbishment

Whole-house refurbishment · Belsize Park, NW3

Belsize Park Gardens, NW3

Full-house refurbishment in Belsize Park with basement, extension and loft works.

Conservation Area · 5 Storeys · Documented programme: 12 months

Documentary programme, not verified elapsed construction time or a timetable for another project.

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Local knowledge with a purpose

Understand the building before changing it

In Temple Fortune, blocks of flats are concentrated along the Finchley Road frontage, with Suburb cottages and houses in the streets east of the road, and each raises different questions of fabric, tenure and consent. Establish which kind of building you have, and which controls reach it, before choosing finishes.

Finchley Road became the main shopping centre for Hampstead Garden Suburb, and the London Plan 2021 lists Temple Fortune as a District centre in Barnet. Only the road’s eastern side lies in the Suburb conservation area, though most shops are on the western side. On the east, Arcade House and Temple Fortune House, which the Finchley Road appraisal says were completed in 1912, are listed at Grade II and have shops below and flats above. The 1930s blocks that followed include Belmont Court and The Pantiles, a listed block of 40 flats.

Hampstead Garden Suburb character appraisal: introduction, October 2010 · The London Plan 2021, GLA (Annex 1 town centre network) · Hampstead Garden Suburb character appraisal: Finchley Road (Area 16), October 2010 · Hampstead Garden Suburb character appraisal: Artisans’ Quarter (Area 2), October 2010 · Historic England: Arcade House, 788–800 Finchley Road, Grade II, list entry 1188691 · Historic England: Temple Fortune House, 802–818 Finchley Road, Grade II, list entry 1359054 · Historic England: The Pantiles, Finchley Road, Grade II, list entry 1096075

Behind the parade, the Artisans’ Quarter takes its main influence from the Arts and Crafts movement, with cottages grouped in terraces and linked pairs and most homes built between 1909 and 1912. Lower Temple Fortune Hill has white roughcast cottages in symmetrical groups, and brick half quadrangles face each other midway up. The appraisal names roughcast rendered walls, red brick plinths, London stock and red brick, shingle tiles and decorative tiled elements as traditional materials, and says most houses are nationally or locally listed; 5–11 Temple Fortune Hill are Grade II.

Hampstead Garden Suburb character appraisal: Artisans’ Quarter (Area 2), October 2010 · Historic England: 5–11 Temple Fortune Hill, Grade II, list entry 1259558

The Temple Fortune Lane and Willifield Way area has larger houses than the Artisans’ Quarter, built for middle-class families with large gardens and unified by white roughcast or render, tiles and brick decorative features; Temple Fortune Lane, built in 1907, was the Suburb’s first road. House types run from small three-bedroom properties to four- and five-bedroom houses, in formal squares, semi-detached and detached forms. On Temple Fortune Lane, Historic England lists the Palser Square houses of 1908–10, Arnold Mitchell’s pair at 34 and 36 and the flats of Temple Fortune Court at Grade II.

Hampstead Garden Suburb character appraisal: Temple Fortune Lane and Willifield Way (Area 3), October 2010 · Historic England: 18, 20 and 22 Temple Fortune Lane, Palser Square, Grade II, list entry 1259502 · Historic England: 34 and 36 Temple Fortune Lane, Grade II, list entry 1259506 · Historic England: 1–16 Temple Fortune Court, Temple Fortune Lane, Grade II, list entry 1259494

The first local check

The Suburb boundary runs along Finchley Road

Temple Fortune’s shops stand on both sides of Finchley Road, the Suburb’s western boundary, but only the eastern side lies in the conservation area, and Barnet notes that the conservation area and the Trust’s Scheme of Management area are not entirely the same. The place name and the NW11 postcode do not decide the council, a boundary, a listing, Trust consent or the consent route. Confirm the council, then check Barnet’s conservation map, the list entry, the Article 4 schedule and map, whether the Trust’s Scheme or a Trust lease applies, the title or lease, and past planning decisions.

Hampstead Garden Suburb character appraisal: Finchley Road (Area 16), October 2010 · Barnet: Hampstead Garden Suburb conservation area · Find the council for the property · Barnet: Hampstead Garden Suburb conservation area map (PDF) · Historic England: listed-building consent · Barnet: Hampstead Garden Suburb Article 4 directions and schedules (scanned PDF) · Hampstead Garden Suburb Scheme of Management, 1974, amended 1983 (PDF) · LEASE: alterations and home improvements

Separate checks, one coordinated brief

Planning, listed buildings, building control and leases

One approval does not settle every requirement. Identify the applicable routes before ordering work, and record who will prepare submissions, arrange inspections and provide the relevant completion information.

Planning permission and householder rights

Is the work development that needs planning permission?

Work confined to the inside of a house or flat is generally not development, so it seldom needs planning permission. Flats, whether above the shops or in a 1930s block, do not benefit from Part 1 householder permitted development rights. For a house, check the limits and any conditions on earlier permissions, then whether Barnet’s Suburb Article 4 directions cover the address. Their Area 1 list withdraws rights including enlarging or altering a house, altering the roof, adding a porch, laying hard surfaces, changing gates, fences and walls and painting the exterior.

When planning permission is required · Householder permitted development technical guidance · Barnet: Hampstead Garden Suburb Article 4 directions

Listed buildings and the conservation area

Does a listing reach inside the building?

Historic England lists Arcade House and Temple Fortune House on Finchley Road, the flats of Temple Fortune Court and The Pantiles, the Palser Square houses and cottages on Temple Fortune Hill at Grade II. The Trust’s FAQs say that a listed property, freehold or leasehold, needs Barnet’s listed building consent for internal changes. The conservation area is a separate designation with its own controls, covering the eastern side of Finchley Road and the Suburb streets behind it, so check both for the building.

Historic England: Arcade House, 788–800 Finchley Road, Grade II, list entry 1188691 · Historic England: Temple Fortune House, 802–818 Finchley Road, Grade II, list entry 1359054 · Historic England: 1–16 Temple Fortune Court, Temple Fortune Lane, Grade II, list entry 1259494 · Historic England: The Pantiles, Finchley Road, Grade II, list entry 1096075 · Historic England: 18, 20 and 22 Temple Fortune Lane, Palser Square, Grade II, list entry 1259502 · Historic England: 5–11 Temple Fortune Hill, Grade II, list entry 1259558 · Hampstead Garden Suburb Trust: planning FAQs · Historic England: listed-building consent · Hampstead Garden Suburb character appraisal: Finchley Road (Area 16), October 2010

Building Regulations

Who confirms the work meets building standards?

Building Regulations are a separate regime from planning permission, listed building consent, Trust consent and a landlord’s approval. Barnet says approval may be needed to install a bathroom that will involve plumbing, to change electrics near a bath or shower and to replace windows and doors, while like-for-like replacements of baths, toilets, basins and sinks are exempt. Work by someone registered with a competent person scheme needs no separate application, so agree who certifies each element.

When Building Regulations approval is needed · Barnet building regulations approval

Trust consent, lease consent and Party Wall notices

Whose agreement do you need beyond the council’s?

Where the Trust’s Scheme of Management applies, no alteration may be made to a building’s external appearance without Trust consent, which needs its own application, separate from planning permission. The Trust is freeholder of many Suburb blocks of flats; many of its leases forbid any alteration, internal or external, and a leaseholder whose freeholder is the Trust should contact it about internal alterations. Other leases set their own consent terms. The Party Wall Act applies only where the work qualifies, for example cutting into a wall shared with a neighbour.

Hampstead Garden Suburb Scheme of Management, 1974, amended 1983 (PDF) · Hampstead Garden Suburb Trust: planning FAQs · Hampstead Garden Suburb Trust: what the Trust does · Hampstead Garden Suburb Trust: buying and selling on the Suburb · LEASE: alterations and home improvements · Party-wall work requiring notice

Local facts that affect the brief

Apply the controls to the work you actually need

Designated 1968; appraisal adopted October 2010

Hampstead Garden Suburb Conservation Area

The Hampstead Garden Suburb Conservation Area was designated in 1968 and later extended to take in Golders Green Crematorium; to the west it reaches the east side of Finchley Road. The Trust says the character appraisal was formally adopted in October 2010 and divides the conservation area into 22 character areas. For Temple Fortune, read the chapters for the Artisans’ Quarter (Area 2), Temple Fortune Lane and Willifield Way (Area 3) and Finchley Road (Area 16).

Barnet: Hampstead Garden Suburb conservation area · Hampstead Garden Suburb Trust: conservation area character appraisal · Hampstead Garden Suburb character appraisal: Artisans’ Quarter (Area 2), October 2010 · Hampstead Garden Suburb character appraisal: Temple Fortune Lane and Willifield Way (Area 3), October 2010 · Hampstead Garden Suburb character appraisal: Finchley Road (Area 16), October 2010

Barnet lists sixteen conservation areas, and none is named Temple Fortune. The western side of Finchley Road, where most of the shops are and where Barnet’s local history links housebuilding to the 1910 tramline, lies outside the Suburb conservation area, so check Barnet’s maps for the address rather than assuming that any designation does or does not apply.

Barnet conservation areas, appraisals and maps · Hampstead Garden Suburb character appraisal: Finchley Road (Area 16), October 2010 · Barnet local studies: Temple Fortune (Hendon NW11) pocket history · Barnet: Hampstead Garden Suburb conservation area map (PDF)

Earliest direction 5 March 1971; HGS 10 sealed 2010

Article 4 directions on the Suburb

Barnet’s Hampstead Garden Suburb Article 4 page lists the rights withdrawn in Area 1, including enlarging, improving or otherwise altering a house, other roof alterations, porches, hard surfaces, gates, fences and walls, means of access to a highway, exterior painting and microgeneration equipment such as solar panels and ground or water source heat pumps; for that equipment the withdrawal covers blocks of flats as well as houses. Barnet notes that its scanned direction file may hold historical classes and maps, and that it has translated the old classes into modern ones.

Barnet: Hampstead Garden Suburb Article 4 directions

The file’s earliest listed direction is dated 5 March 1971, and its 1991 schedule of affected properties, which predates the 2010 direction, names addresses on Temple Fortune Hill and Temple Fortune Lane. Barnet sealed a further direction, HGS 10, on 15 October 2010 for specific residential properties shown on its map. A separate borough-wide direction has required planning permission since 29 May 2016 for converting a dwelling house into a small house in multiple occupation, a change of use rather than refurbishment.

Barnet: Hampstead Garden Suburb Article 4 directions and schedules (scanned PDF) · Article 4 directions in Barnet

Plan adopted 4 March 2025; Design Guidance 2010

Barnet’s Local Plan and the Suburb Design Guidance

Barnet adopted its new Local Plan on 4 March 2025. With the London Plan and other plans it makes up the development plan used to decide planning applications, and its Policies Map shows designations such as conservation areas and town centres. The London Plan 2021 classifies Temple Fortune as a District centre. Read the adopted policies against your whole proposal and its exact location.

Barnet Local Plan adoption statement, 4 March 2025 · Barnet Local Plan 2021–2036 · The London Plan 2021, GLA (Annex 1 town centre network)

The Hampstead Garden Suburb Design Guidance was produced jointly by the Trust and Barnet, and planning applications are determined in the light of it. It was formally approved after public consultation and is given due weight as a material consideration; the Trust dates the current guidance to 2010. Read it before settling windows, external pipework, boundaries or finishes on a Suburb home.

Hampstead Garden Suburb Conservation Area Design Guidance, Barnet and the Trust · Hampstead Garden Suburb Trust: planning FAQs

Scheme approved 17 January 1974; amended 1983

The Trust’s Scheme of Management

The Scheme of Management was approved under the Leasehold Reform Act 1967 by a High Court order of 17 January 1974, amended in 1983, and extends to enfranchised property within the areas shown on its Plan A. Its schedule requires Trust consent for any alteration to the external appearance of a building, and also covers building on or substantially paving gardens and forecourts, and boundary walls, fences, trees and hedges.

Hampstead Garden Suburb Scheme of Management, 1974, amended 1983 (PDF)

Barnet notes that the conservation area and the Scheme area are not entirely the same. The Artisans’ Quarter appraisal says that quarter, which includes the Finchley Road gateway, Temple Fortune Court and Temple Fortune Hill, is protected by the Scheme. Whether the Scheme or a Trust lease applies to a particular property is a separate question, so confirm it with the Trust and the title.

Barnet: Hampstead Garden Suburb conservation area · Hampstead Garden Suburb character appraisal: Artisans’ Quarter (Area 2), October 2010 · Hampstead Garden Suburb Scheme of Management, 1974, amended 1983 (PDF) · LEASE: alterations and home improvements

Before windows are ordered, roof tiles renewed or any excavation planned, establish which consents the exact Temple Fortune address and the proposal need. Planning permission, listed building consent, conservation-area and Article 4 controls, Hampstead Garden Suburb Trust consent, Building Regulations, lease consent and any Party Wall procedure are separate regimes, so approval under one does not settle any of the others.

When planning permission is required · Historic England: listed-building consent · Barnet: Hampstead Garden Suburb conservation area · Barnet: Hampstead Garden Suburb Article 4 directions · Hampstead Garden Suburb Trust: planning FAQs · When Building Regulations approval is needed · LEASE: alterations and home improvements · Party-wall work requiring notice

Local guidance checked . The linked sources help you prepare a brief; requirements depend on the address, building and complete proposal.

From retained details to shared services

Roughcast cottages, Suburb houses and flats on Finchley Road

Windows, glazing bars and doors

Record each window’s condition before any replacement is considered. The Artisans’ Quarter appraisal lists inappropriate replacement doors and windows and lost glazing bars among its negative features, and The Pantiles has small-paned Crittall steel casements. The Trust requires a formal application even for like-for-like window replacements, and under the joint guidance, altering windows or external doors, even in detail, material or colour, can need both Trust consent and Barnet’s permission. Its authors have not yet seen an acceptable UPVC product for Suburb properties, and double glazing will not normally be approved in listed buildings.

Hampstead Garden Suburb character appraisal: Artisans’ Quarter (Area 2), October 2010 · Historic England: The Pantiles, Finchley Road, Grade II, list entry 1096075 · Hampstead Garden Suburb Trust: planning FAQs · Hampstead Garden Suburb Conservation Area Design Guidance, Barnet and the Trust

Bathrooms, stacks and outside pipework

In a flat, the bathroom can drain to a stack shared with other homes, so find where it runs and how supplies are isolated before choosing a layout. On the Suburb, the Trust’s FAQs note that some internal alterations require exterior changes such as new pipework, flues or vents, which need its consent, and the joint guidance lists new external pipework, flues and vents among changes that may also need Barnet’s permission. The Trust’s retrofit guidance adds ventilation systems to the measures needing its consent.

LEASE: alterations and home improvements · When Building Regulations approval is needed · Hampstead Garden Suburb Trust: planning FAQs · Hampstead Garden Suburb Conservation Area Design Guidance, Barnet and the Trust · Hampstead Garden Suburb Trust: home retrofit guidance (PDF)

Structure, clay and sound between homes

The Trust notes that terraced and linked Suburb houses sit on shallow foundations on clay, so establish how a wall or floor carries load before removing it or adding heavy finishes. On the Suburb, the joint guidance requires Trust consent for underpinning and for structural works inside a building leased from the Trust, and Building Regulations cover structural alterations. Between flats, decide the floor build-up, acoustic layers and lease terms together, using Approved Document E for the sound standards that apply to relevant building work.

Hampstead Garden Suburb Trust: supplementary basement guidance, February 2016 (PDF) · Hampstead Garden Suburb Conservation Area Design Guidance, Barnet and the Trust · When Building Regulations approval is needed · GOV.UK: Approved Document E, resistance to sound · LEASE: alterations and home improvements

Front gardens, hedges and boundaries

The Artisans’ Quarter appraisal says front gardens contribute to the setting of houses and the Garden Suburb aesthetic, and counts painted brick arches and plinths and mass-produced repair tiles as detracting from Temple Fortune Hill’s character. The Scheme covers building on or substantially paving gardens and forecourts, and boundary walls, fences, trees and hedges, and the joint guidance requires Trust consent to remove or renew a hedge or repave a drive or path in different materials. Barnet’s Area 1 Article 4 list for the Suburb also withdraws rights for hard surfaces, gates, fences and walls.

Hampstead Garden Suburb character appraisal: Artisans’ Quarter (Area 2), October 2010 · Hampstead Garden Suburb Scheme of Management, 1974, amended 1983 (PDF) · Hampstead Garden Suburb Conservation Area Design Guidance, Barnet and the Trust · Barnet: Hampstead Garden Suburb Article 4 directions

Trees, clay and the basement question

Give Barnet six weeks’ written notice before work on trees in a conservation area, and remember that working on a protected tree without permission is a criminal offence; on the Suburb, tree work also needs the Trust’s written consent. The joint guidance notes that the Suburb was specifically designed without basements, and the Trust’s basement guidance says one will not normally be approved under a semi-detached or terraced house, citing differential movement where houses stand on shallow foundations on clay. Refitting rooms you already have is a different brief.

Barnet protected trees and tree works · Tree preservation orders and conservation-area trees · Hampstead Garden Suburb Trust: works to trees and hedges · Hampstead Garden Suburb Conservation Area Design Guidance, Barnet and the Trust · Hampstead Garden Suburb Trust: supplementary basement guidance, February 2016 (PDF)

Insulation, heating and solar

Under the Trust’s retrofit guidance, no Trust consent is needed for draught-proofing, adjusting heating controls, internal wall insulation, internal secondary glazing, electric boilers or underfloor heating, but consent is needed for window replacement, air and ground source heat pumps, solar panels, roof and cavity-wall insulation, boiler flues and ventilation systems, and leaseholders may need consent for internal retrofit work. Barnet’s Area 1 Article 4 list for the Suburb also withdraws rights for solar equipment and ground or water source heat pumps at houses and blocks of flats. Plan insulation, heating and ventilation as one package.

Hampstead Garden Suburb Trust: home retrofit guidance (PDF) · Barnet: Hampstead Garden Suburb Article 4 directions · Historic England: a whole-building approach

A practical plan for the street and building

Working hours, deliveries and shared access

Parking, parklets, skips and scaffolding

Scaffold on the footpath, like any building work that uses or infringes on the public highway or footway, needs a Barnet highways licence, and the landowner is ultimately responsible for having one in place. Residents hire a skip through a skip company, which arranges the licence; if a bay suspension is needed, it must be approved before the skip licence is applied for, with at least 7 working days’ notice on Barnet’s highways page and 7 calendar days on its parking page. Barnet cannot suspend bays turned into parklets at 24, 25, 26 and 30 Temple Fortune Parade and 1255 Finchley Road, and asks you to contact customer services first for a suspension nearby; vehicles for the works must park inside any suspended area.

Barnet highways licences and skip licences · Barnet parking suspensions and dispensations

Noisy work, neighbours and living at home

Barnet’s published construction working hours for noisy work are Monday to Friday, 8am to 6pm, and Saturday, 8am to 1pm, with none on a Sunday or bank holiday; check whether the lease or building rules are stricter. Where you share a building, whether above a shop or in a block, agree delivery times, protection of stairs and common parts and any water shut-offs with whoever manages the building, and tell neighbours what to expect. If you stay at home, decide which rooms remain usable and how you will manage while a bathroom is out of use.

Barnet construction working hours · LEASE: alterations and home improvements

A clear scope before a price

Plan your renovation budget and quotation

Quotations compare fairly only when each prices the same written scope. Separate room work from repairs to original fabric, external changes that need consent and anything shared with the rest of a block.

Existing condition and original fabric

Record the building as it stands, so that nothing is priced on a guess.

  • A measured survey and photographic record
  • Roughcast, brickwork, roof tiles and windows to repair
  • Areas to open up for damp, structure or services

Rooms, finishes and services

Write a specification for each room so that all quotations price the same work.

  • Layouts, fittings and finishes with quantities
  • Pipework, heating, extract and wiring described
  • Items you will supply and when they arrive

Approvals and site arrangements

Include the consents, notices and street arrangements the proposal actually needs.

  • Planning, listed building, Trust and lease consents
  • Party Wall notices for qualifying work
  • Highways licence, skip and bay suspension

Written allowances and sequence

Write down uncertain items, exclusions and responsibilities before anything is signed.

  • VAT, exclusions and provisional sums stated
  • Lead times for windows and fittings noted
  • Inspections, certificates and handover records

A Temple Fortune address carries no fixed surcharge and sets no programme. Ask each contractor to state how VAT and professional fees are treated and how unexpected findings will be handled. A standalone bathroom receives its own room-specific quotation.

From an idea to a workable scope

Prepare your brief and renovation budget

  1. Describe the home and the rooms

    Send the full address and say whether the home is a cottage, a larger house, a flat above the shops or a flat in a block. Name the rooms you want to change and add photographs of the front and rear, the entrance and stairs, the roof and any damp or leaks.

  2. Gather the papers you hold

    Look out the lease or title, any Trust consents or letters, earlier planning and listed building decisions, drawings and building control certificates. If you already know the home is listed, inside the Suburb conservation area, covered by an Article 4 direction or held from the Trust, say so, and mention trees and hedges near the work.

  3. Separate decisions from unknowns

    List what is settled, such as repairs you know are needed and finishes you like, apart from what depends on opening up, an engineer’s check or a reply from the Trust or your landlord. Open items can then be carried as written allowances in each quotation rather than as guesses.

  4. Agree who does what

    Agree who applies for each consent, serves each notice and books each inspection. Plan deliveries, the skip and any bay suspension, protection of shared parts and Barnet’s working hours, say whether you will live at home during the work, and agree how changes and handover records will be dealt with.

Ready to take the next step? Send the property address and a short outline of what you want to change.

Discuss your Temple Fortune project

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Talk to our Finchley Road studio

Our studio is in Hampstead on Finchley Road, at NW3 6DN. We serve Temple Fortune from this office. Bring us the practical questions about your house, flat or bathroom and the result you want to achieve.

Contact the studio to discuss your brief and arrange the next step. If you already have drawings, a lease or planning correspondence, tell us what is available.

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Questions before you begin

Renovating in Temple Fortune: practical answers

Will you take on a standalone bathroom renovation in Temple Fortune?

Yes. A standalone bathroom, en-suite or shower room is a project in its own right for us, whether it is in a cottage, a larger house or a flat above the shops. Send the room’s measurements, a few photographs and the current layout, with the position of the soil stack if you know it, and say whether there is another bathroom to use during the work.

Is every Temple Fortune home in the Hampstead Garden Suburb Conservation Area?

No. In Temple Fortune, the conservation area takes in the eastern side of Finchley Road and the Suburb streets behind it, such as Temple Fortune Hill; most of the shops are on the western side, which is outside it. Barnet lists sixteen conservation areas and none is named Temple Fortune. Check the full address on Barnet’s maps, and remember that the Trust’s Scheme area is not entirely the same as the conservation area.

Hampstead Garden Suburb character appraisal: Finchley Road (Area 16), October 2010 · Hampstead Garden Suburb character appraisal: Artisans’ Quarter (Area 2), October 2010 · Hampstead Garden Suburb character appraisal: Temple Fortune Lane and Willifield Way (Area 3), October 2010 · Barnet conservation areas, appraisals and maps · Barnet: Hampstead Garden Suburb conservation area map (PDF) · Barnet: Hampstead Garden Suburb conservation area

Do Article 4 directions or listings apply to Temple Fortune homes?

Yes, but only address by address. Barnet’s Area 1 list for the Suburb withdraws rights including altering or enlarging a house, roof alterations, porches, hard surfaces, gates, fences and walls and exterior painting, and the 1991 schedule in Barnet’s scanned file names Temple Fortune Hill and Temple Fortune Lane addresses. Historic England lists Arcade House, Temple Fortune House, Temple Fortune Court, The Pantiles, the Palser Square houses and cottages such as 5–11 Temple Fortune Hill at Grade II, so read the entry for your building.

Barnet: Hampstead Garden Suburb Article 4 directions · Barnet: Hampstead Garden Suburb Article 4 directions and schedules (scanned PDF) · Historic England: Arcade House, 788–800 Finchley Road, Grade II, list entry 1188691 · Historic England: Temple Fortune House, 802–818 Finchley Road, Grade II, list entry 1359054 · Historic England: 1–16 Temple Fortune Court, Temple Fortune Lane, Grade II, list entry 1259494 · Historic England: The Pantiles, Finchley Road, Grade II, list entry 1096075 · Historic England: 18, 20 and 22 Temple Fortune Lane, Palser Square, Grade II, list entry 1259502 · Historic England: 5–11 Temple Fortune Hill, Grade II, list entry 1259558 · Historic England: listed-building consent

Can I fit new windows or double glazing in Temple Fortune?

Check before ordering anything. The Trust needs a formal application even for like-for-like replacement windows, and the Trust and Barnet say in their joint guidance that they have not yet seen an acceptable UPVC product for Suburb properties. Under the Trust’s retrofit guidance, internal secondary glazing needs no Trust consent, but in a listed building internal changes can need listed building consent, and double glazing will not normally be approved. Replacement windows can also need building regulations approval, and a lease may control them.

Hampstead Garden Suburb Trust: planning FAQs · Hampstead Garden Suburb Conservation Area Design Guidance, Barnet and the Trust · Hampstead Garden Suburb Trust: home retrofit guidance (PDF) · Barnet building regulations approval · LEASE: alterations and home improvements

Whose consent do I need for internal works to my flat?

Internal works alone are generally not development, so planning permission is rarely the issue, though Part 1 householder rights do not extend to flats for outside changes. The lease decides whether your landlord must agree. If the Trust is your freeholder, it asks you to contact it about internal alterations, and many of its leases forbid alterations outright. A listed block such as Temple Fortune Court or The Pantiles can also need listed building consent for internal changes, and Building Regulations may still apply.

When planning permission is required · Householder permitted development technical guidance · LEASE: alterations and home improvements · Hampstead Garden Suburb Trust: planning FAQs · Hampstead Garden Suburb Trust: buying and selling on the Suburb · Historic England: 1–16 Temple Fortune Court, Temple Fortune Lane, Grade II, list entry 1259494 · Historic England: The Pantiles, Finchley Road, Grade II, list entry 1096075 · When Building Regulations approval is needed

Can I move the bathroom or take out a wall?

That depends on what the survey finds. Our structural engineers establish whether the wall is load-bearing and how the floor is built, which matters in terraced or linked Suburb houses on shallow foundations on clay. Relocating a bathroom depends on a water supply, a route for extract air and a workable fall for the waste, which in a flat may run to a shared stack. Structural works inside a building leased from the Trust need Trust consent, and Building Regulations, the lease and any Party Wall procedure need checking too.

Hampstead Garden Suburb Trust: supplementary basement guidance, February 2016 (PDF) · Hampstead Garden Suburb Conservation Area Design Guidance, Barnet and the Trust · When Building Regulations approval is needed · LEASE: alterations and home improvements · Party-wall work requiring notice

Could I add a basement under a Temple Fortune house?

Not as a matter of course. The joint Design Guidance notes that the Suburb was specifically designed without basements, and the Trust’s basement guidance, approved in 2016, says one will not normally be approved under a semi-detached or terraced house, a small cottage or a modest family house, and should not add light wells to the front or visible side; each case is judged on its merits. Refitting rooms you already have is a separate brief, and Barnet’s adopted Local Plan is used in deciding planning applications inside and outside the Suburb.

Hampstead Garden Suburb Conservation Area Design Guidance, Barnet and the Trust · Hampstead Garden Suburb Trust: supplementary basement guidance, February 2016 (PDF) · Barnet Local Plan adoption statement, 4 March 2025

What hours can builders work in Temple Fortune?

Barnet’s published construction working hours for noisy work are Monday to Friday, 8am to 6pm, and Saturday, 8am to 1pm, with none on a Sunday or bank holiday. A lease, building manager or the rules of a block of flats may set tighter limits on noisy work and deliveries, so check those too before the programme is agreed, and tell your neighbours what is planned.

Barnet construction working hours · LEASE: alterations and home improvements

How can I compare renovation quotations fairly?

Send each contractor one written scope covering every room, with quantities, finishes, the original details you are keeping and the repairs already known. Ask each to show its treatment of VAT, professional fees, consents, licences, protection of shared parts and unexpected findings, and what it assumes about working hours. Investigate the biggest unknowns first; a Temple Fortune address does not by itself justify a surcharge or fix a completion date.

Where is your studio, and what helps you start on my project?

Our studio is at Unit 3, Palace Court, 250 Finchley Road, London NW3 6DN, and we serve Temple Fortune from this office. In a first message, send the address and the type of home, list the rooms involved, attach a few photographs and mention any lease, Trust, drawing or planning papers you hold, and tell us what matters most within your budget.

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Explore the relevant property guide, then check the current official sources above for your address and proposed work.

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Client Reviews
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I would like to thank Ross and his team for their consistent commitment to quality and their unerring reliability. They delivered our property to specification and on time, proving to be an extremely effective, experienced, and proactive contractor.

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James WardInvestment Director, Belgravia
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We have worked with Ross and his company many times. They are extremely professional and hardworking individuals who can work under any circumstances. There was no variation to the works.

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Cirus RehmanFinance Director, Grosvenor Street, Mayfair
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A company where you get value for your money while at the same time achieving excellent quality. Their work is carried out on time and within budget. We've worked with them on multiple projects and they never disappoint.

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Brian InghamDirector, Green Evolution Limited
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Hampstead Renovations operates alongside Hampstead Chartered Surveyors & Building Consultancy — an RICS Regulated firm providing chartered building surveying, fire safety and project advisory services, under shared directorship. Both practices are based in Hampstead NW3 6DN, giving our clients local professional oversight from survey through to handover.
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