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Putney Renovations & Design-Build — SW15

Victorian and Edwardian houses, mansion flats and the river

Plan your house, flat or bathroom around the building itself, whether a Victorian house in the Oxford Road area, an Edwardian house in West Putney, a mansion flat near the Embankment or a small terraced house around Lifford Street. Say which rooms are changing, and share anything a lease, a list entry or the flood map tells you.

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Choose the work your Putney home needs

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 Victorian and Edwardian houses

House refurbishment in Putney

Putney houses range from Victorian terraces and semi-detached houses to the Edwardian streets of West Putney and the Deodar Road houses, built just after 1896, whose long gardens back onto the Thames. Plan heating, wiring and bathrooms around the windows, roof and front boundary you mean to keep, and check the conservation area, listing and any Article 4 direction first.

  • Conservation area, listing and flood zone confirmed
  • Windows, roof and front boundary surveyed
  • Structure and services traced room by room
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02 Mansion blocks and converted houses

Flat renovation in Putney

A Putney flat may sit in a mansion block near the river or on one floor of a converted house, sharing roof, stacks and stair with neighbours. Read the lease and get any written landlord consent before fixing a layout, trace the stack and stopcocks, and note that Policies LP25 and LP26 govern joining flats or splitting a house.

  • Lease read and written consent obtained
  • Shared stack and isolation valves located
  • Floor build-up and sound between flats planned
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03 Bathrooms in flats and houses

Bathroom renovation in Putney

You can book a standalone bathroom renovation with us, whether the room is the only bathroom in a mansion flat, an en-suite in an Edwardian house or a shower room on an upper floor. Start with the floor build, the waste fall to the stack and where the extract discharges; waterproofing, lighting, tiles and fittings then follow together.

  • Stack connection and extract outlet confirmed
  • Joists and wet-area build-up assessed
  • Temporary washing arranged if it is the only bathroom
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Real projects, clearly located

Ideas for your Putney 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

Putney’s homes run from late Victorian and Edwardian terraces and mansion flats by the river to the Edwardian streets of West Putney and the small terraced houses around Lifford Street. Settle the designations, the flood zone and the neighbours who share the structure before a layout is drawn.

Wandsworth’s Putney Embankment appraisal calls it the first part of Putney to be developed and finds it predominantly late Victorian and Edwardian: shop terraces, the well-detailed houses of Ruvigny Gardens, slightly later mansion blocks and boathouses that give the riverside a character of its own. The Deodar Road appraisal records houses built in the years just after 1896 whose long back gardens run down to the river, an arrangement it calls unique in Wandsworth.

Putney Embankment conservation area appraisal and management strategy, approved 22 November 2010 · Deodar Road conservation area appraisal and management strategy, approved 22 November 2010

The West Putney conservation area, between Putney Hill and the Dover House Estate and between Upper Richmond Road and Chartfield Avenue, is described as predominantly suburban and residential, largely Victorian in the north and east and overwhelmingly Edwardian in the centre, south and west. It wraps around the separate Coalecroft Road and Parkfields conservation areas. The East Putney appraisal describes an area centred on Upper Richmond Road and West Hill that mixes quiet residential streets with busy main roads.

West Putney conservation area appraisal and management strategy, approved 1 March 2010 · East Putney conservation area appraisal and management strategy, approved 1 March 2010

The Oxford Road appraisal records high-quality detached, semi-detached and terraced Victorian houses, and the Charlwood Road and Lifford Street appraisal finds a distinctly rural feel on Charlwood Road and narrow streets tightly packed with small terraced houses around Lifford Street. Historic England lists 37, 39 and 41 Lower Richmond Road, an early 19th-century two-storey terrace of yellow stock brick with a pantile roof, and 25 Oakhill Road, a house dated 1880, both at Grade II.

Oxford Road conservation area appraisal, approved 3 March 2008 · Charlwood Road and Lifford Street conservation area appraisal, approved 1 March 2010 · Historic England: 37, 39 and 41 Lower Richmond Road, Grade II · Historic England: 25 Oakhill Road, Grade II

The first local check

Check the address, not the SW15 postcode

Wandsworth has no conservation area called simply Putney. The name is shared by the East Putney, West Putney, Putney Embankment, Putney Lower Common and Putney Heath conservation areas, the Local Plan’s Area Strategy for Putney and a Putney archaeological priority area in Historic England’s 2017 appraisal. Use the full address, not the SW15 postcode, to confirm the council, any conservation boundary, listing or Article 4 direction, the freehold owner and the consents required, checking the council’s map, the national list, the Article 4 page, the lease or title and the flood map.

Wandsworth: conservation area appraisals · East Putney conservation area appraisal and management strategy, approved 1 March 2010 · West Putney conservation area appraisal and management strategy, approved 1 March 2010 · Putney Heath conservation area appraisal and management strategy · Wandsworth Local Plan 2023–2038: policy document · Historic England: Wandsworth Archaeological Priority Areas appraisal, June 2017 · Find the council for the property · Wandsworth: find out if you live in a conservation area · Historic England: listed-building consent · Wandsworth: Article 4 directions · LEASE: alterations and home improvements · GOV.UK: flood map for planning, checked by address

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

Where does planning permission begin for a Putney house or flat?

Ordinary work inside a Putney house or flat is generally not development, so planning permission is not usually needed; exterior changes, a change of use and joining or dividing homes are assessed in their own right. A flat has no Part 1 householder rights at all. In a conservation area a house loses Class B roof additions and Class AA upward extensions, and directions at Commondale and the Dover House Estate remove more, so check the council’s list.

When planning permission is required · Householder permitted development technical guidance · Planning Portal: permitted development rights · GPDO 2015, Schedule 2 Part 1: householder permitted development · Wandsworth Local Plan 2023–2038: policy document · Wandsworth: Article 4 directions · Wandsworth: Putney Lower Common conservation area Article 4 direction · Wandsworth: Dover House Estate conservation area Article 4 direction

Listed buildings and conservation areas

Can listing cover the inside of a Putney house?

It can. Wandsworth explains that listed building consent includes alterations to the interior, and that working on a listed building without consent is a criminal offence. The Grade II entry for Winchester House (Putney Constitutional Club) at 10 Lower Richmond Road, an 18th-century building, records its Palladian window and panelled hall. Conservation-area status is a separate control, and each conservation area has its own appraisal.

Wandsworth: listed buildings · Historic England: listed-building consent · Historic England: Winchester House (Putney Constitutional Club), 10 Lower Richmond Road, Grade II · Wandsworth: conservation area appraisals

Building Regulations

Which approval covers the construction itself?

Building Regulations stand apart from planning, listed building consent and any lease, and Wandsworth points out that building regulations and planning are handled by separate application processes. Bathroom work involving plumbing, electrics near a bath or shower, new windows and doors and heating can all need approval. Blocks of seven or more storeys, or 18 metres and above, with at least two homes are higher-risk buildings, for which the Building Safety Regulator is the approving body.

When Building Regulations approval is needed · GOV.UK: Building Regulations approval · Wandsworth: do I need building or planning consent

Lease consent and Party Wall

Whose agreement is needed apart from the council’s?

If you hold a lease, it sets out whether the landlord or freeholder must agree in writing before you alter floors, services or windows, and that permission can be needed even with planning permission or Building Regulations approval already granted. Wandsworth’s basement guidance adds that basement work in a flat or leasehold house may need the freeholder’s consent. The Party Wall Act runs on its own track and applies only where the work qualifies, such as cutting into a shared wall.

LEASE: alterations and home improvements · Wandsworth: basements and extensions guidance · Party-wall work requiring notice

Local facts that affect the brief

Apply the controls to the work you actually need

Appraisals approved 2008–2010

Read the appraisal for your conservation area

Wandsworth’s Executive approved the East Putney and West Putney appraisals on 1 March 2010 and those for Putney Embankment and Deodar Road on 22 November 2010. East Putney was designated on 7 January 1987 and extended in 1990 and 2010; West Putney on 2 January 1986, with an extension in November 1987; Putney Embankment on 1 April 1971, extended in 1978, 1988 and 2010; and Deodar Road on 11 October 1985.

East Putney conservation area appraisal and management strategy, approved 1 March 2010 · West Putney conservation area appraisal and management strategy, approved 1 March 2010 · Putney Embankment conservation area appraisal and management strategy, approved 22 November 2010 · Deodar Road conservation area appraisal and management strategy, approved 22 November 2010

Oxford Road, designated on 24 May 1989, has an appraisal approved on 3 March 2008; Putney Lower Common, designated on 21 July 1978, one of 2 March 2009; and Charlwood Road and Lifford Street, amalgamated in 1978, one of 1 March 2010. None of the appraisals Wandsworth adopted on 31 August 2023 is in Putney, and these older documents cite the Core Strategy, DMPD or UDP, so read them with the 2023 Local Plan.

Oxford Road conservation area appraisal, approved 3 March 2008 · Putney Lower Common conservation area appraisal and management strategy, approved 2 March 2009 · Charlwood Road and Lifford Street conservation area appraisal, approved 1 March 2010 · Wandsworth: conservation area appraisal programme 2021–23 · Wandsworth: the adopted Local Plan (19 July 2023) and Partial Review (4 March 2026)

Commondale and Dover House Estate directions

Check Wandsworth’s Article 4 list for the address

Among Putney’s conservation areas, Wandsworth lists Article 4 directions only for Putney Lower Common and the Dover House Estate, whose appraisal places its northern part in Putney. At 15–36 Commondale, permission is needed for visible external alterations, replacement windows and doors included, re-roofing in a different material, front porches, hard surfaces and boundaries, demolition and painting the outside walls of houses and flats. The council’s Dover House Estate page lists similar controls, except that rough-cast or render may be painted light beige, cream or off-white.

Wandsworth: Article 4 directions · Wandsworth: Putney Lower Common conservation area Article 4 direction · Wandsworth: Dover House Estate conservation area Article 4 direction · Dover House Estate conservation area appraisal

The East Putney appraisal states that no Article 4 direction has been proposed there, and the council lists none for West Putney, Putney Embankment, Oxford Road, Deodar Road or the other Putney areas. Wandsworth has no basement direction either, and its change-of-use directions do not concern refitting a home. A flat still has no Part 1 householder rights, and a house in a conservation area has reduced ones.

East Putney conservation area appraisal and management strategy, approved 1 March 2010 · Wandsworth: Article 4 directions · Householder permitted development technical guidance · GPDO 2015, Schedule 2 Part 1: householder permitted development

Local Plan adopted 19 July 2023

Apply the Local Plan as partly updated in March 2026

The Local Plan 2023–2038, which Wandsworth adopted on 19 July 2023, still applies; its Partial Review, adopted on 4 March 2026, swapped out only housing policies LP23, LP24 and LP28 to LP31. LP5 supports extensions that are visually subservient, keeps roof extensions and dormers to the rear, leaves a substantial depth of the original rear garden free of buildings and lightwells, and expects changes to the street elevation to be of a minor scale and unobtrusive.

Wandsworth: the adopted Local Plan (19 July 2023) and Partial Review (4 March 2026) · Wandsworth Local Plan adoption statement, 2023 · Wandsworth Local Plan Partial Review adoption statement, 4 March 2026 · Wandsworth Local Plan 2023–2038: policy document

Policy PM5, the Area Strategy for Putney, concerns mostly the town centre and its site allocations; it supports upward extensions on Putney High Street where they are subordinate to the host building and seeks to avoid a canyon-like effect. LP3 welcomes removing pebbledash, paint from brickwork and non-original style windows. The Housing and Historic Environment SPDs, both adopted in November 2016, cite policies since replaced, so rely on the current policy numbers.

Wandsworth Local Plan 2023–2038: policy document · Wandsworth: Housing SPD, adopted November 2016 · Wandsworth: Historic Environment SPD, adopted November 2016

Policies LP6 and LP12

Keep a lower-ground refit apart from basement digging

An existing cellar or lower ground room can be refitted as internal work; lowering its floor or extending under the garden is a different project to raise with the council, whose basement guidance says a lightwell needs permission. For a new basement, LP6 allows one storey beneath no more than half the existing rear or other undeveloped garden, requires lightwells in conservation areas to leave at least two metres or half the original front garden depth, whichever is greater, and asks for a metre of soil and a 200mm drainage layer above, plus a positive pumped device against sewer flooding.

Wandsworth Local Plan 2023–2038: policy document · Wandsworth: basements and extensions guidance

LP12’s tables rule out basements and basement conversions in Flood Zone 3b, refuse self-contained basement homes in Zones 3a and 2, and allow no basement bedrooms in tidal Zone 3a where the breach hazard is extreme, significant or moderate. A point by the Embankment boathouses read Flood Zone 3, while Putney High Street, Oxford Road and Felsham Road read Zone 1, so check the address. Wandsworth says permission is usually, but not always, required for a basement.

Wandsworth Local Plan 2023–2038: policy document · Environment Agency: Flood Zones 2 and 3 (rivers and sea) data · GOV.UK: flood map for planning, checked by address · Wandsworth: basements and extensions guidance

Nothing should be ordered or dug until the consent route for the full Putney address is clear, whether the job is new windows, re-roofing, painting a front or excavation. Planning permission, any Article 4 direction, listed building consent, conservation-area controls, Building Regulations, a landlord’s written consent and Party Wall procedures each run separately, and one approval never stands in for another; LP6 and LP12 still govern any new basement.

When planning permission is required · Wandsworth: Article 4 directions · Historic England: listed-building consent · Wandsworth: conservation areas · When Building Regulations approval is needed · LEASE: alterations and home improvements · Party-wall work requiring notice · Wandsworth Local Plan 2023–2038: policy document

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

Windows, mansion-flat stacks, riverside ground and older brick

Windows, doors and front elevations

Look closely at every window and door; repair and draught-stripping can then be compared fairly with secondary glazing or new frames. At 15–36 Commondale the Article 4 direction brings replacement windows and doors under planning control, and LP3 welcomes removing non-original style windows. Works affecting a listed building’s character need consent, and a flat has no householder rights, so confirm the route before frames are ordered.

Wandsworth: Putney Lower Common conservation area Article 4 direction · Wandsworth Local Plan 2023–2038: policy document · Wandsworth: listed buildings · Householder permitted development technical guidance

Bathrooms, stacks and damp

In a mansion block or converted house, the shared stack and its fall usually fix where a bathroom can sit, so find out who controls the stack, the isolation valves and the ceiling below. Waterproofing, floor build-up and the extract outlet come before tile choices, and any damp needs its cause found. Building Regulations can cover new pipework and electrics near the bath or shower.

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

Floors, partitions and sound

Check how the joists run, what earlier pipe runs have notched and whether a partition carries load before taking a wall out or laying stone. Where flats sit one above another, sound insulation, floor build-up and any lease have to be planned together, and Approved Document E applies to relevant work. Work at a shared wall may need Party Wall notice, and works to a listed interior can need consent.

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

Front gardens, boundaries and trees

LP5 wants hardstandings to be permeable and, in conservation areas, resists them where they conflict with the appraisal; at 15–36 Commondale, front hard surfaces, porches and boundary walls, fences and gates need permission, and the council lists similar controls for the Dover House Estate. Give Wandsworth six weeks’ notice before work to a conservation-area tree, and get its permission for work to a tree under a preservation order.

Wandsworth Local Plan 2023–2038: policy document · Wandsworth: Putney Lower Common conservation area Article 4 direction · Wandsworth: Dover House Estate conservation area Article 4 direction · Wandsworth: tree preservation orders and conservation-area trees · Tree preservation orders and conservation-area trees

Lower floors, flood zones and archaeology

Check damp, drainage and ventilation in a lower floor before fitting it out. Near the river, points checked vary: one on the Embankment by the boathouses read Flood Zone 3, while Putney Wharf, Felsham Road and Lower Richmond Road by the Lower Common read Zone 1. Historic England’s 2017 appraisal names Putney, Putney Riverside and Putney Lower Common, and Putney Heath priority areas; check the Policies Map before digging.

Environment Agency: Flood Zones 2 and 3 (rivers and sea) data · GOV.UK: flood map for planning, checked by address · Historic England: Wandsworth Archaeological Priority Areas appraisal, June 2017 · Wandsworth Local Plan 2023–2038: policy document

Insulation, heating and older brick

Choose insulation, heating, ventilation and moisture control together, because each affects how an older brick or rendered house handles damp. In a conservation area, Class A.2 of the householder rules restricts cladding the outside of a house, and at Commondale painting the outside walls needs permission. Before fixing flues, vents or outdoor units, check whether they would alter a listed building or a street-facing elevation.

Historic England: a whole-building approach · GPDO 2015, Schedule 2 Part 1: householder permitted development · Wandsworth: Putney Lower Common conservation area Article 4 direction · Historic England: listed-building consent

A practical plan for the street and building

Working hours, deliveries and shared access

Red routes, licences and deliveries

Work out how materials will travel from the street to the room, through any shared entrance hall or stair. At the points checked, TfL’s data placed West Hill (A3) and most points on Upper Richmond Road (A205) under TfL, while Putney High Street, Putney Hill and Lower Richmond Road were not TfL roads; check TfL’s map and Wandsworth’s red-route list for the frontage, because the council does not license skips, scaffolds or hoardings on red routes. On council roads, a skip licence lasts at least five days, is sought five working days ahead, covers up to 12 cubic yards, rules out grab lorries for emptying and needs no separate bay-suspension application; scaffold and hoarding licences last at least 28 days. Book a domestic bay suspension at least seven clear working days ahead.

TfL: red routes and the TLRN map · Wandsworth: red routes in the borough · TfL: highway licences on red routes · Wandsworth: apply for a skip licence · Wandsworth: apply for a scaffold licence · Wandsworth: apply for a hoarding or fencing licence · Wandsworth: apply for a parking bay suspension

Working hours, neighbours and living at home

Wandsworth allows building noise audible at the site boundary from 8am to 6pm, Monday to Friday, and 8am to 1pm on Saturday, and its Construction Code of Practice of January 2022 permits no noisy activities on Sundays or bank holidays and counts scaffolding as noisy work. The code is attached to relevant planning approvals and building control applications. A lease or house rules may be stricter; let neighbours and any managing agent know the timetable in advance, and work out whether the household can stay during noisy stages.

Wandsworth: building noise and permitted hours · Wandsworth Construction Code of Practice, January 2022 · LEASE: alterations and home improvements

A clear scope before a price

Plan your renovation budget and quotation

Measured drawings and a written description of the work, rather than the SW15 postcode, should drive every Putney quotation. Separate room work from repairs to windows, roof and front boundary, show listed fabric and the shared parts of a mansion block as their own items, and state which consents, licences and flood checks each quotation includes.

The building as it stands

Capture today’s condition so that no part of the price depends on a guess.

  • Measured drawings and dated photographs
  • Windows, roof and front boundary inspected
  • Joists, damp and drainage flagged for opening up

Rooms, fittings and services

Specify each room fully, so every contractor is pricing the same scope.

  • Room layouts, quantities and finishes
  • Plumbing, heating, extract and wiring scope
  • Items you supply and who will fit them

Consents, licences and access

Include the approvals and street arrangements this address needs, and no others.

  • Planning, listed building or freeholder consent
  • Party Wall notice only where the Act applies
  • Council or TfL licences and parking suspensions

Allowances and order of work

Put open questions, risk ownership and the working sequence in writing before signing.

  • Provisional sums, exclusions and VAT treatment
  • Lead times for windows, doors and fittings
  • Inspections, certificates and handover records

A Putney location brings no standard surcharge and does not decide how long the work will take. Each contractor should explain where VAT, professional fees, licences, lease requirements and defects found once work starts appear in the price. When the work is one standalone bathroom, it is priced on a separate quotation for that room.

From an idea to a workable scope

Prepare your brief and renovation budget

  1. Tell us about the home

    Begin with the full address and the kind of home, whether a house, a flat in a converted house or a flat in a mansion block, giving the floor for a flat. List the rooms in the brief and include photographs of the street front, roof, any cellar and any damp, cracking or leaks.

  2. Gather the papers you have

    Pull together the papers you hold: the lease and house rules, old plans, any planning or listed building decisions and building control completion certificates. Mention the conservation area or Article 4 direction if you have found one, the flood zone the map gives for the address, and any trees close to the work.

  3. Split decisions from open questions

    List the repairs and finishes already decided, and the questions waiting on opening up a floor, an engineer’s inspection, a drainage survey or the freeholder’s reply. Open questions can then be priced as provisional sums instead of hidden assumptions.

  4. Settle roles, access and occupation

    Before work starts, agree responsibility for each application, notice and inspection, and check TfL’s map to see whether the frontage lies on a red route. Time deliveries and parking suspensions to Wandsworth’s hours, protect common parts, say whether you will live in, and agree a written record of changes.

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 Putney 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 Putney: practical answers

Will you take on a standalone bathroom renovation in Putney?

Yes. Renovating one bathroom, en-suite or shower room is a complete job in itself, in a Putney house or a mansion flat alike, and bathrooms can also form part of a larger refurbishment. Tell us the room’s size and floor, attach a few photographs, mark the soil stack if you know where it is, and say whether the household will have another bathroom during the work.

Which conservation area covers my Putney address?

Check the full address on Wandsworth’s map, because no conservation area is called simply Putney. Those in and around it include Putney Embankment, Deodar Road, Oxford Road, Charlwood Road and Lifford Street, East Putney, West Putney with Coalecroft Road and Parkfields inside it, Putney Lower Common, Putney Heath and the Dover House Estate, whose northern part lies in Putney. A neighbourhood name or SW15 postcode settles nothing.

Wandsworth: find out if you live in a conservation area · Wandsworth: conservation area appraisals · Putney Embankment conservation area appraisal and management strategy, approved 22 November 2010 · Deodar Road conservation area appraisal and management strategy, approved 22 November 2010 · Oxford Road conservation area appraisal, approved 3 March 2008 · Charlwood Road and Lifford Street conservation area appraisal, approved 1 March 2010 · East Putney conservation area appraisal and management strategy, approved 1 March 2010 · West Putney conservation area appraisal and management strategy, approved 1 March 2010 · Putney Lower Common conservation area appraisal and management strategy, approved 2 March 2009 · Putney Heath conservation area appraisal and management strategy · Dover House Estate conservation area appraisal

Could an Article 4 direction or a listing affect my plans?

It depends on the address. Wandsworth lists directions for 15–36 Commondale on Putney Lower Common and for the Dover House Estate, partly in Putney, controlling windows, doors, roofs, porches, front boundaries and painting; it lists none for the other Putney conservation areas and has no basement direction. Listing is separate: 9 Putney Hill and The Pines, 11 Putney Hill, are Grade II*, and consent can reach interiors.

Wandsworth: Article 4 directions · Wandsworth: Putney Lower Common conservation area Article 4 direction · Wandsworth: Dover House Estate conservation area Article 4 direction · Historic England: 9 Putney Hill and The Pines, 11 Putney Hill, Grade II* · Wandsworth: listed buildings

Can I replace the windows or fit double glazing?

That turns on the building and its status. At 15–36 Commondale, replacing windows and doors needs planning permission under the Article 4 direction; a listed building needs listed building consent for relevant changes; and a flat has no householder rights, so ask whether different windows need permission. Because LP3 supports removing windows of a non-original style, find out what the present frames are before choosing their replacements.

Wandsworth: Putney Lower Common conservation area Article 4 direction · Wandsworth: listed buildings · Householder permitted development technical guidance · When planning permission is required · Wandsworth Local Plan 2023–2038: policy document

What approval does work inside my Putney flat need?

New layouts and finishes inside a flat are not normally development, so a planning application is rarely needed, although Policies LP25 and LP26 apply if homes are joined or divided. Whether the landlord or freeholder must give written consent, and on what terms, is a question for the lease. Listing can extend consent to interior work, and Building Regulations approval can be needed for plumbing, electrics near a bath or shower and structural work.

When planning permission is required · Wandsworth Local Plan 2023–2038: policy document · LEASE: alterations and home improvements · Wandsworth: listed buildings · When Building Regulations approval is needed

What needs checking before I knock through or move a bathroom?

Get an engineer to confirm what the wall and the floor joists are carrying, and check that the new bathroom position can have a falling waste run, a water supply and a way out for extract air. Listed buildings add a further step, because consent can extend to internal alterations. For a flat, the lease and the sound separation between homes come next; Party Wall notice is needed only for work the Act covers.

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

Can I dig a basement under my Putney house?

Basement digging and refitting an existing cellar are different projects. Wandsworth has no basement Article 4 direction, but LP6 limits a new basement to one storey under no more than half the garden, and LP12 rules basements out in Flood Zone 3b and restricts bedrooms and self-contained homes below ground elsewhere in the flood zones. Check the flood map for the address, especially near the river.

Wandsworth: Article 4 directions · Wandsworth Local Plan 2023–2038: policy document · GOV.UK: flood map for planning, checked by address

When can builders make noise in Putney?

For a Wandsworth address, the council allows building noise audible at the site boundary from 8am to 6pm, Monday to Friday, and 8am to 1pm on Saturday. Its Construction Code of Practice allows no noisy activities on Sundays or bank holidays and treats scaffolding as noisy work. Check any lease and house rules, which can be stricter, before a timetable is agreed.

Wandsworth: building noise and permitted hours · Wandsworth Construction Code of Practice, January 2022 · LEASE: alterations and home improvements

How should I compare quotations for work in Putney?

Set the quotations side by side room by room, with matching quantities, repairs and finishes, and make sure each states its provisional sums, exclusions and VAT basis. Ask how each handles listed fabric, Article 4 controls, red-route or side-street access, licences and protection of shared parts. A Putney address does not justify an uplift or a fixed completion date.

Where is your studio, and what should I send?

You will find our studio at Unit 3, Palace Court, 250 Finchley Road, London NW3 6DN, and we serve Putney from this office. A useful first message gives the address, the rooms to change, a few photographs and any drawings, lease extracts, planning papers or flood information, together with what matters most in the budget.

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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, giving Putney clients access to professional oversight from survey through to handover.
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