Fulham Renovations & Design-Build — SW6

Yes. We take on standalone bathroom renovations: a single bathroom, en-suite or shower room in a Fulham house or flat can be the whole project, or one part of a wider refurbishment. Send its measurements and photographs, say which floor it is on and where you think the soil stack runs, and tell us whether another bathroom will be usable while the work goes on.

That depends on the exact address. Fulham’s conservation areas include Bishops Park, Putney Bridge, Hurlingham, Sands End, Fulham Reach, Moore Park, Walham Grove, Walham Green, Fulham Park Gardens and Central Fulham, and other SW6 areas include Crabtree, Barclay Road and Gunter Estate. Several boundaries changed in November 2018, so check the council’s current map rather than the street name or the postcode.

LBHF: conservation areas, character profiles and maps · LBHF: borough-wide conservation area map · LBHF: public notice of conservation area changes, November 2018

Possibly. The borough-wide direction removes householder basement rights, and older directions apply to named addresses: front roofs on Stevenage Road and in Cloncurry, Doneraile, Ellerby and Finlay Streets, roof coverings and brickwork in Fulham Park Gardens, and roofs and gables on Fabian Road and Mimosa Street outside any conservation area. Listing goes entry by entry; Fulham House on Fulham High Street is Grade II and Hurlingham House Grade II*.

LBHF: borough-wide basement Article 4 direction, in force 26 April 2018 · LBHF: properties affected by Article 4 directions · LBHF: properties affected by Article 4 directions, list last amended 1 October 2011 · Historic England: Fulham House, 87 Fulham High Street, Grade II · Historic England: Hurlingham House, Ranelagh Gardens, Grade II* · Historic England: listed-building consent

Start with the building’s status. Altering a listed house without listed building consent is an offence; in conservation areas the council’s guidance encourages owners of PVC windows to change them; and a Central Fulham direction covers front windows in Felden Street and at 88 Munster Road. A flat has no householder rights, so check whether permission is needed and what any lease allows before frames are ordered.

LBHF: statutory listed buildings · Historic England: listed-building consent · LBHF Planning Guidance SPD, adopted 28 February 2018 · LBHF: properties affected by Article 4 directions · Householder permitted development technical guidance · LEASE: alterations and home improvements

Usually not planning permission, because new layouts and finishes inside a flat are not normally development. For a leasehold flat, the lease decides whether the landlord must agree in writing, and that consent may still be needed after planning permission or Building Regulations approval. In a listed building, internal work can need listed building consent, and Building Regulations approval can be needed for new plumbing, electrics near a bath or shower and structural change.

When planning permission is required · LEASE: alterations and home improvements · LBHF: statutory listed buildings · When Building Regulations approval is needed · GOV.UK: Building Regulations approval

First, a structural engineer’s view of the wall and the joists around it; then the waste fall, water supply and extract route to the new position. Listing can bring internal alterations under consent as well. In a flat, read any lease, check whether Approved Document E applies to sound insulation and confirm whether the work is notifiable under the Party Wall Act.

When Building Regulations approval is needed · LBHF: statutory listed buildings · LEASE: alterations and home improvements · GOV.UK: Approved Document E, resistance to sound · Party-wall work requiring notice

Refitting an existing lower ground floor differs from building a new or extended basement. For that, the borough-wide direction removed the householder right, and DC11 allows one storey on most sites, within half the house’s depth and half of each garden’s depth. Points on several Fulham streets read as Flood Zone 3, so check your address on the flood map; CC3 asks for a non-return valve or equivalent for vulnerable uses below ground.

LBHF: borough-wide basement Article 4 direction, in force 26 April 2018 · LBHF Local Plan 2018: policy document · Environment Agency: Flood Zones 2 and 3 (rivers and sea) data · GOV.UK: flood map for planning, checked by address

If the address is in Hammersmith and Fulham, noise-making work is confined to Monday to Friday, 8am to 6pm, and Saturday, 8am to 1pm; nothing is allowed on Sundays or bank holidays, or at other times, without the council’s section 61 consent. Its construction code treats waste collection and concrete deliveries as noisy work. A lease or the building’s own rules may set tighter limits, so check them as well.

LBHF: construction site noise and permitted hours · LBHF Code of Construction Practice, version 1.0, February 2023 · LEASE: alterations and home improvements

Lay them side by side against a single schedule of rooms, quantities, repairs and finishes, and expect provisional sums, exclusions and VAT to be written out. Then ask how each treats brickwork, sashes and front roofs, the shared parts of the building, street licences and any landlord conditions. Neither the price nor a finish date is fixed by the SW6 postcode.

Unit 3 Palace Court, 250 Finchley Road, London NW3 6DN is our studio, and we serve Fulham from this office. The most useful first message gives the address, the rooms you want to change, a few photographs, any lease, drawings or planning papers you hold and the priorities for your budget.