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Parsons Green Renovations & Design-Build — SW6

Updated 10 November 2026

Victorian terraces around a village green

Bring us the building as it stands: a Victorian terrace house on the Green or the streets behind it, a half-gabled red-brick house south of New King’s Road, a flat made from one of these houses, or an older listed terrace house. Say what should change, what must stay and what the lease or list entry records.

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01 Terraces by the Green

House refurbishment in Parsons Green

The conservation area’s profile finds mainly Victorian terraces that remain substantially intact, and across New King’s Road stand the half-gabled red-brick terraces of the Studdridge Street conservation area. Plan rewiring, heating and new bathrooms together with the sashes, porches, front gable and roof, and find out whether a direction lists the house number before any front detail is touched.

Direction list checked for the house number
Front gable, porch, sashes and roof surveyed
Brick front recorded as painted or unpainted

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02 Flats in converted terraces

Flat renovation in Parsons Green

Where a terrace house has been split into flats, they usually share the roof, the drainage stack and often the front door and stair. Start with any lease and the written consent it may require, then trace who controls the drains and isolation valves before fixing the layout; a flat has no householder permitted development rights to fall back on.

Any landlord’s consent and its conditions confirmed
Stack, supplies and stopcocks traced
Sound and floor build-up checked against any lease

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03 Top-floor and flat bathrooms

Bathroom renovation in Parsons Green

A standalone bathroom is welcome as a project of its own, whether it is the main bathroom at the top of a terrace house, a shower room under a mansard roof or the only bathroom in a flat. Begin with the joists, the route to the stack and where extract air will leave, then choose waterproofing, lighting and tiles together.

Joist direction and floor condition checked
Route and fall to the stack measured
Temporary washing if no other bathroom exists

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04 Kitchens in the Nichols terraces

Kitchen renovation in Parsons Green

Most Parsons Green kitchens sit in red-brick terraces built quickly and to a pattern after the Peterborough Estate was sold in the late 1880s. Because the houses repeat, an extension or knock-through can follow what neighbours have done, but the structure and party walls still need checking.

Rear rooms and structure surveyed
Party wall matters identified early
Neighbours' alterations used as a guide

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Understand the building before changing it

Parsons Green is built around a green that, its profile says, keeps much of its village character, framed by Victorian terraces, with a separate conservation area of red-brick streets across New King’s Road. Pin down which area covers the house, whether a direction lists it and who shares the building before you plan.

The council’s profile draws the conservation area from the District Railway in the north-west to New King’s Road in the south-east, and from Harwood Road in the north-east to Parsons Green Lane, taking in the properties on its western side. It describes mainly Victorian terraces that remain substantially intact and a Green that retains much of its original village character, and it asks for the absence of painted brick facades to be maintained.

LBHF: Parsons Green Conservation Area character profile, pages 7–11

South-east of New King’s Road, the streets of the Studdridge Street conservation area were laid out after the Peterborough Estate was sold in 1888 and 1890. Its profile records two-storey red-brick half-gabled terraces with paired arched recessed porches, terracotta friezes, sash windows and terracotta lion finials, and notes that mansards with roof lights have become so common that they now form part of the area’s character.

LBHF: Studdridge Street Conservation Area character profile, approved 29 March 2004 · LBHF: Parsons Green Conservation Area character profile, pages 12–15

Older houses survive among the Victorian streets. Historic England lists Elm House at 11 Parsons Green, an early 19th-century brown-brick house of three storeys and basement, at Grade II, together with New King’s Road, a terrace of about 1795, and New King’s Road, an early 19th-century terrace of two storeys plus basement listed with its iron railings. St Dionis’ Vicarage and Parish Hall have been listed Grade II since the profile appeared.

Historic England: Elm House, 11 Parsons Green, Grade II · Historic England: New King’s Road, Grade II · Historic England: New King’s Road, including iron railings, Grade II · LBHF: Parsons Green Conservation Area

The first local check

One name, several official boundaries

The name is carried by the Parsons Green conservation area, by an archaeological priority area spelt Parson’s Green and by Article 4 directions grouped under it, each with its own extent; the streets across New King’s Road belong to the separate Studdridge Street area. The name and an SW6 postcode decide nothing about the council, a conservation boundary, listing, direction coverage, ownership or the consent route; check the full address against the council’s current map, the list and the direction list, and read the lease or title and planning history.

LBHF: Parsons Green Conservation Area · LBHF Local Plan 2018: policy document · LBHF: properties affected by Article 4 directions · LBHF: Studdridge Street Conservation Area · Find the council for the property · LBHF: conservation areas, character profiles and maps · Historic England: listed-building consent · LBHF: properties affected by Article 4 directions, list last amended 1 October 2011 · 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 and householder rights

What needs planning permission around the Green?

Changes kept to the inside of a Parsons Green house or flat are generally not development. Flats and maisonettes have no Part 1 householder rights at all. A house has them only within set limits and conditions. In a conservation area they exclude roof additions and upward extensions, the borough-wide direction in force since April 2018 has removed basement rights, and the Parsons Green and Studdridge Street directions take away more at the numbers they list.

When planning permission is required · Planning Portal: permitted development rights · Householder permitted development technical guidance · GPDO 2015, Schedule 2 Part 1: householder permitted development · LBHF: borough-wide basement Article 4 direction, in force 26 April 2018 · LBHF: properties affected by Article 4 directions, list last amended 1 October 2011

Listed buildings and conservation areas

Does listing reach inside the house?

It can. Altering a listed building inside or out without listed building consent is a criminal offence, even where the owner did not know it was listed, and pre-1948 structures within its curtilage are covered too. Listed examples here include Elm House and the terraces at New King’s Road. Conservation-area control is separate, and the Local Plan permits work affecting a designated heritage asset only where its significance is conserved or enhanced.

LBHF: statutory listed buildings · Historic England: listed-building consent · Historic England: Elm House, 11 Parsons Green, Grade II · Historic England: New King’s Road, Grade II · Historic England: New King’s Road, including iron railings, Grade II · LBHF Local Plan 2018: policy document

Building Regulations

What does building control look at?

Building Regulations are an independent regime: neither planning permission, listed building consent nor any lease replaces them. In a Parsons Green refit they can apply to a bathroom with new plumbing, electrics close to a bath or shower, new windows or doors and heating. The council accepts both Full Plans applications and Building Notices, so decide at the outset which suits each part of the work, who arranges inspections and who keeps the completion certificates.

When Building Regulations approval is needed · GOV.UK: Building Regulations approval · LBHF: make a building control application

Lease consent and Party Wall

Who else has to agree to the work?

For a leasehold flat in a divided terrace, the lease decides whether the landlord must consent in writing and on what terms, and that consent may be needed even when planning permission or Building Regulations approval is already in hand. The Peterborough Estate sales of 1888 and 1890 are history and say nothing about who owns a freehold today. The Party Wall Act stands apart again, and comes in only for work it covers on or near a shared boundary.

LEASE: alterations and home improvements · LBHF: Studdridge Street Conservation Area character profile, approved 29 March 2004 · Party-wall work requiring notice

Local facts that affect the brief

Apply the controls to the work you actually need

Profiles approved 1996 and 2004

Two conservation areas, two profiles

The Parsons Green conservation area was designated in August 1975, extended in April 1989 and extended again on 2 July 2002 to take in Parsons Green Underground station and the railway bridge. Its profile was approved as supplementary planning guidance on 11 December 1996 and published in April 1999, and an addendum covers the later extension. Rely on the council’s current boundary map rather than the profile’s plan.

LBHF: Parsons Green Conservation Area character profile, pages 7–11 · LBHF: Parsons Green Conservation Area character profile, pages 1–6 · LBHF: Parsons Green Conservation Area character profile addendum · LBHF: Parsons Green Conservation Area

Studdridge Street was designated in the same month, August 1975, extended on 2 July 2002 to include 81–89 odd Peterborough Road and again on 13 November 2018, and has a profile approved by committee on 29 March 2004. That profile says the loss of front gardens to basements is now prevented by a preferred pattern of stepped, planted lightwells.

LBHF: Studdridge Street Conservation Area character profile, approved 29 March 2004 · LBHF: Studdridge Street Conservation Area · LBHF: public notice of conservation area changes, November 2018

Directions served 1975–1986

Directions that list houses by number

As the council summarises them, Parsons Green’s directions cover rear boundary gates, fences and walls, and access over them, at 19–65 odd Campana Road from 1976; any alteration to the front roof and gable at named numbers in Blake Gardens, Favart Road, Musgrave Crescent and Tyrawley Road from 1978; and front roofs, roof materials and gables at 31–57 odd Basuto Road from 1986. Sources number these directions differently, so identify each one by its street.

LBHF: properties affected by Article 4 directions · LBHF: properties affected by Article 4 directions, list last amended 1 October 2011 · LBHF: Parsons Green Conservation Area character profile addendum · LBHF: Parsons Green Conservation Area character profile, pages 25–30

In the Studdridge Street conservation area, a 1975 direction covers alterations to front roofs and gables, and a 1984 direction front elevations, including cladding and rendering, doors, windows, porches, ornamental features and the painting of front brickwork, at named numbers in streets including Bovingdon, Chiddingstone, Perrymead, Quarrendon and Studdridge. Because those summaries are not part of the legal documentation and the address list dates from 2011, rely on the wording of the direction itself.

LBHF: properties affected by Article 4 directions · LBHF: properties affected by Article 4 directions, list last amended 1 October 2011

Adopted 28 February 2018; draft emerging

The 2018 plan and its guidance decide applications

Once you have confirmed that the address falls in Hammersmith and Fulham, expect applications to be judged against its Local Plan of 28 February 2018 and the Planning Guidance SPD adopted that day. The supporting text to Policy DC4 expects roof additions, front mansards included, to integrate with the building, taking existing extensions on the street into account. In conservation areas, the SPD resists the loss of original hipped roofs and significant chimney stacks and calls front roof extensions generally unacceptable on the borough’s typical buildings.

Find the council for the property · LBHF: Local Plan, adopted 28 February 2018 · LBHF: Local Plan adoption statement · LBHF Local Plan 2018: policy document · LBHF Planning Guidance SPD, adopted 28 February 2018

A replacement Local Plan went out to Regulation 18 consultation late in 2025, in a draft dated October 2025 that looks ahead to 2042. It is emerging and has not replaced the adopted plan. The Parsons Green profile was prepared under an earlier development plan, so read its policy references against the 2018 plan rather than treating them as current policy.

LBHF: draft Local Plan, Regulation 18 consultation (emerging, not adopted) · LBHF: draft Local Plan introduction, October 2025 · LBHF: Local Plan adoption statement · LBHF: Parsons Green Conservation Area character profile, pages 7–11

Basement direction 2018; Policy DC11

Lightwells and basements around the Green

Every house in Hammersmith and Fulham outside the Old Oak and Park Royal Development Corporation area lost its householder right to basement development, lightwells and other works below the house or its curtilage on 26 April 2018, when the borough-wide direction, made on 25 April 2017 and confirmed on 16 April 2018, came into force. For conservation areas, the Planning Guidance SPD adds that creating or enlarging a front lightwell needs planning permission and that basements under front and side gardens will not normally be acceptable.

LBHF: Article 4 directions, including the borough-wide basement direction · LBHF: borough-wide basement Article 4 direction, in force 26 April 2018 · LBHF Planning Guidance SPD, adopted 28 February 2018

Policy DC11 permits a new basement only where it is one storey except on large sites, reaches beyond the main rear wall by no more than half the host building’s depth and under no more than half the garden depth, and is protected from sewer flooding by a pumped solution or active drainage devices with non-return valves. New self-contained basement flats are barred in Flood Zone 3 areas at risk of rapid inundation unless a satisfactory means of escape is provided. Emerging draft policy DH10 repeats these tests and adds avoiding loss of amenity space.

LBHF Local Plan 2018: policy document · LBHF draft Local Plan (emerging, not adopted): basements and lightwells, draft policy DH10

Before ordering new sashes, re-covering a front roof slope, painting brickwork or booking excavation at a Parsons Green address, establish which conservation area and which direction apply. Planning permission, listed building consent, conservation-area guidance, Article 4 directions, Building Regulations, the landlord’s consent and Party Wall notices are distinct; one being granted does not settle any of the others.

LBHF: properties affected by Article 4 directions, list last amended 1 October 2011 · LBHF: conservation areas, character profiles and maps · Historic England: listed-building consent · When Building Regulations approval is needed · LEASE: alterations and home improvements · Party-wall work requiring notice

Local guidance checked 5 October 2026. The linked sources help you prepare a brief; requirements depend on the address, building and complete proposal.

From retained details to shared services

Front gables, unpainted brick, converted houses and low ground

Sashes, gables and front roofs

Repair is the starting point for original sashes, and the council’s conservation guidance encourages owners of PVC windows to change them. On the Blake Gardens group, Basuto Road and the named Studdridge Street addresses, front roofs and gables are under Article 4 control, and the 1984 Studdridge direction adds front windows, doors and porches. Read the direction and any list entry before ordering frames or roofing.

LBHF Planning Guidance SPD, adopted 28 February 2018 · LBHF: properties affected by Article 4 directions · LBHF: properties affected by Article 4 directions, list last amended 1 October 2011 · Historic England: listed-building consent

Top-floor and flat bathrooms

A bathroom high in the house, under a mansard or on the top floor, depends on how far the waste must run to the stack and which way the joists span. In a converted house the stack is usually shared, so ask who maintains it and the stopcocks. Agree the fall, the tanking and the point where extract air leaves before choosing fittings; plumbing can need Building Regulations approval.

When Building Regulations approval is needed · GOV.UK: Building Regulations approval · LEASE: alterations and home improvements

Conversions, floors and sound

Policy HO2 permits dividing a house into flats only where, among other tests, its original net floor area exceeds 120 square metres, and the council may support turning smaller flats back into a house; both are planning matters, separate from a refit. Within a flat, settle floor build-up, sound insulation (see Approved Document E) and any lease conditions together, and have an engineer confirm any wall to be removed.

LBHF Local Plan 2018: policy document · GOV.UK: Approved Document E, resistance to sound · LEASE: alterations and home improvements · When Building Regulations approval is needed

Unpainted brick, boundaries and trees

The Parsons Green profile asks that the absence of painted brick facades be kept, the SPD says brick walls in conservation areas should not be painted, rendered or clad, and the 1984 Studdridge direction covers painting front brickwork. There the SPD also resists losing traditional front boundaries and planted front gardens. For a conservation-area tree with a trunk diameter of 75mm or more, give six weeks’ written notice before work.

LBHF: Parsons Green Conservation Area character profile, pages 7–11 · LBHF Planning Guidance SPD, adopted 28 February 2018 · LBHF: properties affected by Article 4 directions · LBHF: trees and tree preservation orders · Tree preservation orders and conservation-area trees

Low ground and the old settlement

Point readings of Environment Agency data at the Green, Favart Road, Studdridge Street and New King’s Road return Flood Zone 3; the council notes defences mitigate the tidal extent, so look up your address. The Local Plan names Parson’s Green an archaeological priority area, where relevant applications need field evaluation before decision, and the Studdridge profile records evidence of Roman, medieval and post-medieval settlement around the Green, including Peterborough House.

Environment Agency: Flood Zones 2 and 3 (rivers and sea) data · GOV.UK: flood map for planning, checked by address · LBHF Local Plan 2018: policy document · LBHF: Studdridge Street Conservation Area character profile, approved 29 March 2004

Energy upgrades in a Victorian terrace

Plan insulation, heating and ventilation together so that moisture can still leave older brick and timber. Because the SPD says brick walls in conservation areas should not be painted, rendered or clad, look first at measures that leave the front untouched, such as draught-proofing and roof or floor insulation. Check the Basuto Road direction before changing front roof materials, and any list entry before fixing flues or vents.

Historic England: a whole-building approach · LBHF Planning Guidance SPD, adopted 28 February 2018 · LBHF: properties affected by Article 4 directions · Historic England: listed-building consent

A practical plan for the street and building

Working hours, deliveries and shared access

Getting materials to the house

Check the route from the pavement to the room, including any shared hall or stair. On a reading of TfL’s data, New King’s Road, Parsons Green Lane and Wandsworth Bridge Road were not TfL roads at the points checked, so confirm the road at your address; on council roads, licences come from the council. It takes skip applications only from skip companies, for at least 14 days, with five working days to process and the bay suspended first; scaffolding and hoarding licences run for at least a month. A bay suspension needs eight days’ notice for small, short ones and two or four weeks for larger or longer ones, with weekends counted.

TfL: red routes and the TLRN map · LBHF: skip licences · LBHF: scaffolding licences · LBHF: hoarding licences · LBHF: parking suspensions and road closures

Working hours around the Green

Hammersmith and Fulham allows noisy building work between 8am and 6pm on weekdays and between 8am and 1pm on Saturdays; Sundays and bank holidays are excluded, and any other hours need its section 61 consent. Its 2023 Code of Construction Practice, which it expects every construction site in the borough to meet, places a single-level basement in Category 3 and a basement of two or more levels in Category 2, and confines high-impact activities to set daytime windows. Confirm the council for the address, warn neighbours, check any lease and decide whether you will move out.

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

A clear scope before a price

Plan your renovation budget and quotation

Base a Parsons Green price on a measured survey and a written scope. Show repairs to gables, porches, brickwork and sashes apart from room work, and give items that affect a listed building, a shared house or the street lines of their own.

The house as found

Establish the building’s present condition before it turns into an assumption in the price.

Measured survey and condition notes
Gable, porch, sash and roof repairs identified
Damp, joists and drains to investigate

Each room specified

Specify the rooms tightly enough that rival prices answer one brief.

Room layouts and a finishes schedule
Plumbing, heating, ventilation and wiring
Client-supplied items and who fits them

Consents and site arrangements

Allow only for the approvals and street arrangements the work needs.

Direction, listing or lease consents needed
A Party Wall notice only if the work requires one
Skip, scaffold, hoarding and bay suspension

Allowances, exclusions and timing

Make open items, and whose risk they are, visible before the contract is agreed.

Provisional sums stated, with VAT
Order points for windows and fittings
Completion paperwork named in the contract

A Parsons Green postcode adds no fixed sum to the price and sets no programme. Each quotation should show how VAT, professional fees, consents, licences and defects found during the work are handled. If you only need a bathroom, it receives its own room-specific quotation.

From an idea to a workable scope

Prepare your brief and renovation budget

Locate the house precisely
Send the full address with the house number, since the directions here list houses by number. Say whether it is a whole house or a flat within a converted house, which floor, which rooms you want to change, and add photographs of the front, the roof and any damp.
Collect the records
Gather any lease and rules for the building, drawings from earlier work, planning or listed building decisions and certificates from building control. Tell us if you know the conservation area, a direction covering the house or a list entry, and whether any tree stands near the work.
Mark what is fixed and what is open
Note the repairs you already know about and the layout and finishes you prefer. Then flag what depends on opening up, an engineer’s check, a survey or the landlord’s answer, so those items can be carried as provisional sums until they are resolved.
Settle responsibilities early
Settle in advance who files each application and serves each notice, who calls building control out and who arranges skip, scaffold and bay licences. Plan deliveries and protection of the hall and stair, decide whether you will stay at home, and agree how changes and completion papers will be recorded.

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

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

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Renovating in Parsons Green: practical answers

Can one Parsons Green bathroom be renovated on its own?

Yes. One bathroom, an en-suite or a shower room in a Parsons Green house or flat can be a standalone project. Send its size, a few photographs and the floor it is on, note where the soil stack seems to run, and say whether there is a second bathroom you can use while the work is under way.

Is my house inside the Parsons Green conservation area?

Check the council’s current map for the address. The profile runs the area from the District Railway to New King’s Road and from Harwood Road to Parsons Green Lane, including its western side, and it was extended in 2002. The streets laid out after the Peterborough Estate sales, across New King’s Road, form the separate Studdridge Street area. Neither the name nor SW6 decides it.

LBHF: Parsons Green Conservation Area · LBHF: Parsons Green Conservation Area character profile, pages 7–11 · LBHF: Parsons Green Conservation Area character profile addendum · LBHF: Studdridge Street Conservation Area character profile, approved 29 March 2004 · LBHF: Parsons Green Conservation Area character profile, pages 12–15

Does an Article 4 direction cover my Parsons Green house?

Only if it lists your address, apart from the borough-wide basement direction. Others here cover front roofs and gables in Blake Gardens, Favart Road, Musgrave Crescent, Tyrawley Road and Basuto Road, rear boundaries in Campana Road, and front roofs, elevations, windows, porches and brick painting at named Studdridge Street addresses. Sources number the Parsons Green directions differently, so identify yours by street.

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 · LBHF: Parsons Green Conservation Area character profile addendum · LBHF: Parsons Green Conservation Area character profile, pages 25–30

Can I put double glazing into the sash windows?

Check the house first. A listed building needs listed building consent for relevant changes; at the addresses the 1984 Studdridge Street direction lists, it removes permitted development rights for front windows; and the council’s conservation guidance encourages owners of PVC windows to change them. A flat has no householder rights to rely on, so ask whether permission is needed and what any lease says. Compare repair, draught-proofing and secondary glazing with replacement before deciding.

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

Does a refit inside my flat need anyone’s approval?

Internal layouts and finishes in a flat are not normally development, so planning permission is rarely involved. For a leasehold flat, whether the landlord’s written agreement is needed comes from the lease, and it can be required even once planning permission or Building Regulations approval has been granted. In a listed building, internal alterations can need consent, and plumbing, electrics near a bath or shower and structural work can each need Building Regulations approval.

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

Is it possible to remove a wall or relocate the bathroom?

Perhaps, once the structure and services are understood. Have an engineer check whether the wall carries load and how the joists run, then trace the waste, supply and extract route to the new room. In a listed building, internal alterations can need consent; in a flat, check any lease, the sound insulation and whether the Party Wall Act applies to work on a shared wall.

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

Is a new basement possible under a Parsons Green house?

That is a planning matter, not a refit. Since April 2018 the borough-wide direction has removed the householder right to basement development, the SPD says a front lightwell in a conservation area needs permission, and DC11 restricts size, depth and drainage. Point readings at the Green and nearby streets return Flood Zone 3, and DC11 bars new self-contained basement flats in rapid-inundation areas without a safe escape. Check the address on the flood map.

LBHF: borough-wide basement Article 4 direction, in force 26 April 2018 · LBHF Planning Guidance SPD, adopted 28 February 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

When is noisy building work allowed in Parsons Green?

For an address in Hammersmith and Fulham, noisy work is allowed from 8am to 6pm Monday to Friday and from 8am to 1pm on Saturday, with none on Sundays or bank holidays; the council’s section 61 consent is needed for other times. Its construction code restricts high-impact activities to 9am to noon and 2pm to 5.30pm on weekdays and 9am to noon on Saturdays. A lease or building rules may be stricter still.

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

How do I compare quotations for a Parsons Green house?

Line the quotations up against one written scope: the same rooms, quantities, repairs and finishes, with every provisional sum, exclusion and the VAT position stated. Then compare how each deals with front gables and porches, unpainted brick, listed fabric, shared parts and street licences. Being in Parsons Green neither adds a set sum nor fixes when the work will finish.

Which office handles Parsons Green enquiries?

Enquiries are handled from our studio at Unit 3 Palace Court, 250 Finchley Road, London NW3 6DN, and we serve Parsons Green from this office. Include the full address and house number, the rooms to change, photographs, and any lease, drawings or planning history you hold, with your budget priorities.

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Understand the building before changing it

One name, several official boundaries

Planning, listed buildings, building control and leases

Planning and householder rights

Listed buildings and conservation areas

Building Regulations

Lease consent and Party Wall

Apply the controls to the work you actually need

Two conservation areas, two profiles

Directions that list houses by number

The 2018 plan and its guidance decide applications

Lightwells and basements around the Green

Front gables, unpainted brick, converted houses and low ground

Sashes, gables and front roofs

Top-floor and flat bathrooms

Conversions, floors and sound

Unpainted brick, boundaries and trees

Low ground and the old settlement

Energy upgrades in a Victorian terrace

Working hours, deliveries and shared access

Getting materials to the house

Working hours around the Green

Plan your renovation budget and quotation

The house as found

Each room specified

Consents and site arrangements

Allowances, exclusions and timing

Prepare your brief and renovation budget

Locate the house precisely

Collect the records

Mark what is fixed and what is open

Settle responsibilities early

Talk to our Finchley Road studio

Renovating in Parsons Green: practical answers

Guides for your property and project

Plan the work room by room

Questions for the landlord or agent

Refurbish a Victorian terrace house

Fit a bathroom into a small room

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