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Flat refurbishment in Ravenscourt Park

Mansion blocks, 1930s courts and homes over King Street shops

Flats here range from the mansion blocks of Hamlet Gardens, built between 1898 and 1903, to the inter-war Kings Court and Hamlet Court, homes above the King Street parades and Westcroft Square houses held as flats and maisonettes. This page covers what the council’s two conservation area profiles say about those buildings, its decisions on their windows, roofs and conversions, and the consents a flat owner needs alongside planning.

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Flat refurbishment in Ravenscourt Park at a glance

Start with the windows in the blocks around Hamlet Gardens. The Westcroft Square profile recorded in 2001 that the mansion blocks kept their timber sashes, and Kings Court and Hamlet Court their original Crittall metal windows, with some replaced at Hamlet Court. Since then the council has approved double-glazed Crittall steel windows in place of single-glazed ones at two Kings Court flats, in 2023 and 2026, and slim 24mm sash and casement windows on the rear of part of the mansion blocks in 2016. Its guidance says identical like-for-like replacements to a flat need no permission; permission is likely where they would not match.

LBHF: Westcroft Square Conservation Area character profile, approved 12 October 1998, February 2001 edition, part 3 (character) · LBHF: planning, building control and licensing applications search · LBHF climate change and planning: replacement double and triple glazing windows

For the whole area, including conservation areas, permissions and working hours, read our Ravenscourt Park renovation guide.

Approved guide prices

What does a flat refurbishment cost in Ravenscourt Park?

A flat refurbishment in Ravenscourt Park runs £900–£1,700/sqm excluding VAT, and a full two-bedroom refurbishment typically lands between £60,000 and £110,000. Most programmes take 16–32 weeks on site. A written scope and site assessment are needed before any project price can be fixed.

Scope of workGuide rateTypical total
Full flat refurbishment (2-bed)£900–£1,700/sqm£60,000–£110,000
Typical programme16–32 weeks on site

Guide rates exclude VAT and are set by depth of work, not by postcode. Compare scopes in our London refurbishment cost-per-square-metre guide or try the cost calculator.

The buildings

The blocks and divided houses around the park

Two conservation area profiles name the blocks of flats here: the Ravenscourt and Starch Green profile in 1997 and the Westcroft Square profile in its 2001 edition. Their descriptions are as written then.

On the road called Ravenscourt Park, the 1997 profile describes Frank Douglas Court, a large corner block of 1973 by Burnett, Tait and Lorne, an Edwardian mansion block and, opposite Derwent Court, a modern block of maisonettes. The council’s register files Derwent Court’s applications as “Full Regulation 3 - LBHF is Developer”. The profile records Paddenswick Court as a three-storey block of 1930s local authority flats that kept its original features. On Dalling Road, Rosedale Terrace is an Edwardian development of purpose-built flats; the Bradmore Conservation Area (see our Brackenbury Village page) also reaches Dalling Road, so check the address.

LBHF: Ravenscourt and Starch Green Conservation Area character profile, printed pages 8 to 12 · LBHF: planning, building control and licensing applications search

In the separate Westcroft Square Conservation Area, the north side of Hamlet Gardens has Hamlet Court, a 1936 block by A. Joseph Caney with art-deco touches at its entrances, and four linked blocks of mansion flats, built by W. H. Gibbs between 1898 and 1903; red-brick mansion blocks of the same date, with stone dressings, gables and balconies, line the south side. Kings Court, of 1935 by R. J. Hugh Minty, rises to nine storeys at its centre, stepping down to six, with shops on King Street. The profile wants these developments’ rears to stay subservient and uniform.

LBHF: Westcroft Square Conservation Area character profile, approved 12 October 1998, February 2001 edition, part 3 (character)

On King Street, Westcroft Court at 338-340 is a four-storey red-brick building of 1929 with ground-floor shopfronts and projecting gables, on the council’s Local Register of Buildings of Merit with No. 340A. On Goldhawk Road, No. 405 is a modern infill block of flats and the rest of that frontage a social housing scheme of 1974. Around the square, houses are held as separate flats and maisonettes: the register records a 2003 certificate that a maisonette and a flat in one house were lawful, and a 2012 permission to divide a maisonette into a one-bedroom flat and a two-bedroom maisonette.

LBHF: Westcroft Square Conservation Area character profile, approved 12 October 1998, February 2001 edition, part 3 (character) · LBHF: Local Register of Buildings of Merit, as at August 2015 · LBHF: planning, building control and licensing applications search

Permissions and local rules

Consents for a flat owner, block by block

A new opening on the front of a block

Can a window become a door?

A flat carries none of the householder permitted development rights, so an external change like this goes to a planning application. At Hamlet Court in 2016, the council refused an application to replace a flat’s front window with French doors and side windows, and the refusal was overturned on appeal: one case, not a rule. Planning is not the only hurdle: the council’s window guidance points out that, depending on the lease, the freeholder may also have to agree before the outside of the building changes.

LBHF: planning, building control and licensing applications search · Householder permitted development technical guidance · LBHF climate change and planning: replacement double and triple glazing windows

Building on top of a block

Has a roof-level addition been tried here?

Proposals for an additional floor at roof level, adding three flats to Hamlet Court, were refused in 1989 and again in 1990, under the policies then in force; the register gives no reasons. If Hammersmith and Fulham Council is your landlord, the roof space above is outside its leases: you would need to apply to buy it, and the council decides whether to sell or to grant a licence. Its leaseholders may not build on communal ground shared with other building users either.

LBHF: planning, building control and licensing applications search · LBHF: alterations to council properties, for council leaseholders and secure tenants, with the consent form (Rev. 5.1, 15 October 2026)

If Hammersmith and Fulham Council is your landlord

What does the council require when it owns the flat?

If Hammersmith and Fulham Council is your landlord, its consent must be in place before any alteration begins, down to replacing kitchen units or laying a new floor, and major alterations need a full licence. The council cannot unreasonably withhold consent provided all the necessary approvals, agreements and regulations have been complied with, but as a rule it does not agree to a leaseholder replacing windows or front doors that belong to it.

LBHF: alterations to council properties, for council leaseholders and secure tenants, with the consent form (Rev. 5.1, 15 October 2026)

Above a shop on King Street

What applies to homes in the parades?

The Local Plan 2018 designates two parades here: the King Street (Ravenscourt Park) satellite parade, at 182-230, 232-246a and 248-260 King Street, and the King Street (Hamlet Gardens) neighbourhood parade, whose addresses include 338-340a, the Westcroft Court frontage. In both, Policy TLC3 refuses consent for any ground-floor residential frontage, while accepting that homes behind the shop may be appropriate if satisfactory evidence shows that shopping policy and the retail unit’s long-term viability would not be prejudiced. Where a home adjoins commercial premises, the SPD expects substantially enhanced sound insulation.

LBHF Local Plan 2018: policy document · LBHF Planning Guidance SPD, adopted 28 February 2018

Working hours, skips, parking and the conservation area maps for the whole area are in our Ravenscourt Park guide. Local guidance checked ; requirements depend on the address, the building and the complete proposal.

What the work covers

The work a flat here usually needs

Room layout and sound between homes

Where a house is converted or a flat re-divided, the council’s SPD treats it as essential that a large family flat does not sit over smaller units, that like rooms in neighbouring homes stack or adjoin, and that halls shield noise-sensitive rooms from shared areas. It accepts that the Building Regulations are usually adequate for sound between homes, yet enhanced insulation will be required by condition, and where the stacking is particularly inappropriate, refusal may be recommended.

LBHF Planning Guidance SPD, adopted 28 February 2018

Front doors and fire safety

Fire safety law covers a flat’s front door, not just the communal ones. Since 23 January 2023, the responsible person for a multi-occupied residential building with storeys above 11 metres has had to check its communal fire doors quarterly and, so far as they can, each flat entrance door opening onto the common parts once a year; below that height a general duty still covers flat entrance doors. Ask the managing agent which applies before choosing a new front door.

GOV.UK: Fire Safety (England) Regulations 2022, fact sheet on fire doors (regulation 10)

Dividing a house or a maisonette

If a scheme re-divides a house or splits a maisonette, the SPD expects a converted self-contained flat with a separate bedroom to have an internal area of at least 32.5 square metres, and a converted studio at least 25 square metres with a living and sleeping area of at least 14. Where the house has a rear garden, a family-sized flat of three or more bedrooms should have direct access to it.

LBHF Planning Guidance SPD, adopted 28 February 2018

How we work

How we run a Ravenscourt Park flat refurbishment

  1. First visit

    We see the flat, then the entrance, stairs or lift that serve it.

  2. Lease and consents

    We go through the lease’s consent requirements with you and the managing agent at the start.

  3. Survey and design

    Drainage and services are traced on site. Our own architects and structural engineers design the layout and any structural change around those routes, and any new external vent or window is checked for planning.

  4. Price and contract

    A fixed written price and a JCT contract follow the survey, scope and specification. The price names its allowances and exclusions, with consent fees and any common-parts work shown separately.

  5. Working in the building

    Common parts are protected and their condition recorded; deliveries keep to the building’s rules, and noisy work to those rules and the council’s permitted hours; key decisions go to a director.

  6. Handover

    Commissioning, drawings, certificates and any managing-agent close-out. Completed work carries a 12-month defects-rectification period under the JCT contract terms.

Real projects, clearly located

Examples of our flat refurbishment work elsewhere in London

None of these projects is in Ravenscourt Park. Each card names where the work was done, so you can judge the finish and the approach before you brief your own.

Your brief

Before you ask for a quotation

  1. Name the block and the landlord

    Tell us the block or house the flat is in, its floor and who the landlord is: a freeholder, a residents’ company, a housing association or the council. That decides whose consent comes first and which rules on windows, doors and internal works apply before any drawing is made.

  2. Send the lease and any licences

    Copy the lease’s alterations clause, any licence granted for earlier work and the managing agent’s rules on hours, floors and deliveries. If the flat was formed by dividing a house, add the planning decision or lawful-use certificate that created it, so its layout is on record.

  3. List what is shared

    Mark which walls, floors, pipes and windows you believe are the flat’s and which are the building’s. Where you are unsure, list them as questions for the freeholder, so the scope of work and the consent request describe the same job.

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Questions before you begin

Flat refurbishment in Ravenscourt Park: questions

What is planned for the former Royal Masonic Hospital?

The Grade II* listed hospital west of the park had been vacant since 2006 and, officers reported in July 2025, was on Historic England’s Heritage at Risk Register. That month the council’s planning committee resolved to grant planning permission and listed building consent for a scheme of homes, a care home and community floorspace, which officers said would deliver 140 homes, 21 of them affordable. A resolution to grant is not a finished building, so check the council’s register for the current position.

Planning Data: former Royal Masonic Hospital, with boundary walls, gates, railings and planters, Grade II*, list entry 1192740 · LBHF: officer report to the Planning and Development Control Committee, 30 July 2025, Ravenscourt Park Hospital full planning application · LBHF: planning, building control and licensing applications search

What does listing mean for a flat in Ashlar Court?

Ashlar Court, the former nurses’ home of the Royal Masonic Hospital, is listed Grade II. Planning permission and listed building consent were granted in 2012 to convert it into 66 homes, 6 of them affordable, and in 2025 council officers described that conversion as “fully implemented in 2012”. In 2018 one owner there received listed building consent for two air-conditioning units set into internal partition walls. That is one decision: ask the council before changing anything fixed inside.

Planning Data: Ashlar Court (former Royal Masonic Hospital Nurses' Home), Grade II, list entry 1269052 · LBHF: planning, building control and licensing applications search · LBHF: officer report to the Planning and Development Control Committee, 30 July 2025, Ravenscourt Park Hospital full planning application

Do the Article 4 directions here cover flats?

The council’s summary of Direction No. 1 lists Rosedale Terrace on Dalling Road, a development of purpose-built flats, but the direction’s legal schedule applies to residential properties that have permitted development rights, and flats have no householder permitted development rights. So do not assume that the listing adds controls to a flat; ask the council to confirm for your address. For a flat, the planning application route, any listing and the lease are what to plan around.

LBHF: Ravenscourt and Starch Green (No. 1) Article 4 direction summary · Householder permitted development technical guidance

Can a flat here have its own heat pump?

The council’s guidance says planning permission is needed for a flat’s heat pump where, among other cases, the unit with its housing would exceed 0.6 cubic metres, or more than one would be installed within the boundary of a dwelling that is not a detached house. The lease decides whether you may fix anything to an outside wall or roof, so read it and ask the freeholder before choosing a position.

LBHF climate change and planning: air source heat pumps

Could a basement or lower-ground flat be created here?

Policy CC3 rules out new self-contained basement flats in two kinds of place unless a satisfactory way of escape is provided: Flood Zone 3 areas where rapid inundation is a risk, and surface water flooding hotspots whose hazard rating is significant or higher. The SPD adds that a flat whose sole way in and out is where floodwater would come in at speeds and depths that could endanger life will not be permitted. Neither tells you which zone an address is in, so ask the council early.

LBHF Local Plan 2018: policy document · LBHF Planning Guidance SPD, adopted 28 February 2018

How much does a flat refurbishment cost in Ravenscourt Park?

Guide rates in Ravenscourt Park are £900–£1,700/sqm excluding VAT, with a full two-bedroom refurbishment typically between £60,000 and £110,000, over a 16–32 weeks programme. A written scope and site assessment come before any fixed price.

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