Single-storey rear extensions to Notting Hill houses — reaching into a private garden for a brighter ground floor, designed for conservation consent, with the communal-garden question answered honestly.
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A single-storey rear extension is the classic way to give a Notting Hill house the bright, garden-facing ground floor it was never built with — usually a kitchen-dining room that opens to the outside. But here it begins with a question that does not arise elsewhere: is the garden private, or is it one of the communal garden squares?
Where the house backs onto a communal garden, you generally cannot extend into it — it is shared, protected open space. Where there is a private rear garden, a single-storey extension can transform the ground floor, though the conservation area means permitted-development rights are restricted and the extension needs planning permission with a design that respects the rear elevation and the neighbours’ daylight.
We tell you straight what your house can take, design an extension that is both useful and consentable, engineer the structure and the opening back into the house, and build it through to a finished room — one contract, honest budgets in pounds sterling.
In Notting Hill a rear extension depends first on whether the garden is yours to build on.
Houses backing onto communal gardens generally cannot extend into them; private gardens can.
Conservation-area restrictions mean a rear extension needs a planning application, not permitted development.
Daylight, outlook and overlooking to neighbours shape the depth and the design.
Connecting the extension to the house means a structural opening, engineered and party-walled.
From an honest feasibility read to a finished garden room — under one team.
Confirming the garden is private and what depth can be built.
A single-storey rear extension that suits the house and the garden.
A planning application and heritage-led design for the conservation area.
Foundations, steel and the opening back into the house, with Building Control.
Notices and awards on the shared walls of the terrace.
Walls, roof, rooflights and glazed doors that bring light and the garden in.
Kitchen or living fit-out, flooring and decoration.
Two-stage snagging and a clean handover.
We design and build single-storey rear extensions on Notting Hill houses with private gardens, across the W11 conservation areas.
Notting Hill sits within the Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea — see our Notting Hill area page and South West London refurbishment overview.
Book a no-obligation consultation at 2 Eaton Gate in SW1, at our Hampstead studio, or at your property. We will give you an honest read on approvals, programme and budget band — in pounds sterling — before you commit.
Site visit · approvals read · outline budget band (GBP) · programme indication. No obligation.
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