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Richmond Renovations & Design-Build — TW9 / TW10

Terraces on the Green, villas on the hill, riverside lanes

Here, Richmond means the town in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, from the riverside and Green up to Richmond Hill. Plan your house, flat or bathroom from the real building, be it an early terrace by the Green, a hillside villa or a converted-house flat, and bring what you know of its listing and any lease.

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Choose the work your Richmond 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 Terraces, villas and cottages

House refurbishment in Richmond

Plan a Richmond house as one building, from any basement up to the attic and roof. Coordinate heating, wiring and bathrooms with the windows, doors, railings and chimneys you mean to keep, and price street-facing, roof and listed-interior work as separate items, since listed terraces stand around the Green and several Richmond streets carry Article 4 directions.

  • Listing, conservation area and Article 4 confirmed
  • Windows, doors, railings and roof surveyed
  • Basement to attic planned as one sequence
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02 Flats in converted houses

Flat renovation in Richmond

A Richmond flat may occupy one floor of a converted house, sharing structure, drains and an entrance with neighbours. Check whether the lease requires written consent before you settle a layout, trace the stack and isolation valves, and agree how the common stair will be protected. Exterior changes need separate thought, because a flat has no householder permitted development rights.

  • Lease clauses and written consent confirmed
  • Stack, isolation valves and access traced
  • Common parts protected and neighbours told
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03 Bathrooms from basement to attic

Bathroom renovation in Richmond

We welcome a standalone bathroom renovation, whether it is an en-suite in a terrace house, a family bathroom in a villa or a flat’s shower room. Fix the waste route, the strength and level of the floor and the extract path before choosing waterproofing, tiles, lighting and fittings, and in a listed house confirm first whether consent is needed.

  • Waste route, falls and extract path agreed
  • Floor structure and build-up checked early
  • Listed status confirmed before ordering fittings
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Real projects, clearly located

Ideas for your Richmond 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

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Local knowledge with a purpose

Understand the building before changing it

On this site, Richmond means the town of Richmond in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, from the riverside and the Green to Richmond Hill and North Sheen. A terrace on the Green, a villa on the hill and a flat in a converted house each need their own brief.

Richmond’s Local Plan defines the Richmond & Richmond Hill area as the town centre and riverside, with residential and mixed-use streets reaching into Richmond Hill and North Sheen, and neighbourhood centres at Sheen Road and Friars Stile Road. The Central Richmond appraisal calls that conservation area the historic core of a settlement whose origins date from the 14th century, and notes that George Street formed part of an important coaching route.

Richmond Local Plan 2024–2039: interim version for adoption, October 2025 · Central Richmond conservation area appraisal, adopted 20 November 2023

The Richmond Green appraisal describes a large central green, an open space with a tranquil residential character, and properties dating from the late 15th century to the late 20th. Historic England lists 1–4 Maids of Honour Row, a terrace of three-storey houses of about 1720, at Grade I, and 2 to 6 Old Palace Terrace, early 18th-century brown brick with red dressings, two storeys with attic and basement, at Grade II*.

Richmond Green conservation area appraisal, adopted 20 November 2023 · Historic England: 1–4 Maids of Honour Row, Richmond Green, Grade I · Historic England: 2 to 6 Old Palace Terrace, Richmond Green, Grade II* · Historic England: listed-building consent

Towards the river, the Richmond Riverside appraisal finds everything from robust detached houses and villas with large gardens to boathouses and workshops, partly on the site of the former Richmond Palace. Up the hill, the Richmond Hill appraisal records cottages, almshouses, shop units, hotels, grand terraces and substantial residences, and the St Matthias statement describes streets mostly built between the 1860s and the 1880s, from terraced mews to large detached villas.

Richmond Riverside conservation area appraisal, adopted 20 November 2023 · Richmond Hill conservation area appraisal, adopted 30 March 2023 · St Matthias conservation area statement

The first local check

Check the address, not the TW9 postcode

The Richmond name is shared by several official areas: the borough of Richmond upon Thames, Richmond town centre and the Richmond & Richmond Hill place-based strategy, the Central Richmond, Richmond Green, Richmond Riverside and Richmond Hill conservation areas, and the Richmond Town archaeological priority area. Neither the name nor a TW9 or TW10 postcode shows whether a home falls within any of these, is in a conservation area or listed, is under an Article 4 direction or sits on a particular freehold. Establish the council first; after that, the conservation map, the national list, the Article 4 register, the title or lease and the planning history answer the rest.

Find the council for the property · Richmond Local Plan 2024–2039: interim version for adoption, October 2025 · Richmond: about conservation areas · Central Richmond conservation area appraisal, adopted 20 November 2023 · Richmond Green conservation area appraisal, adopted 20 November 2023 · Richmond Riverside conservation area appraisal, adopted 20 November 2023 · Richmond Hill conservation area appraisal, adopted 30 March 2023 · Historic England: Richmond upon Thames Archaeological Priority Areas appraisal, March 2022 · Historic England: listed-building consent · Richmond: Article 4 directions register · 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

Which Richmond works need planning permission?

Inside a Richmond house or flat, most work falls outside the definition of development and needs no planning permission; exterior alterations and changes of use are judged separately. Flats have no Part 1 householder rights. A house in a conservation area loses Class B roof additions and Class AA upward extensions and faces tighter cladding limits, and Article 4 directions apply to named Richmond streets, so check the register before relying on any right.

When planning permission is required · Householder permitted development technical guidance · GPDO 2015, Schedule 2 Part 1: householder permitted development · Richmond: Article 4 directions in conservation areas · Richmond: Article 4 directions register

Listed buildings and conservation areas

How far does listing reach inside a Richmond house?

Richmond’s listed buildings page says consent applies to the inside and the outside of a listed building and to works affecting its setting, and that working without it is a criminal offence. On Richmond Hill, Historic England lists 28–40, an Italianate terrace of about 1840 with three storeys and basement, at Grade II. Conservation-area status is a separate control, and Local Plan Policy 29 deals with designated heritage assets.

Richmond: listed buildings · Historic England: listed-building consent · Historic England: 28–40 Richmond Hill, Grade II · Richmond: about conservation areas · Richmond Local Plan 2024–2039: interim version for adoption, October 2025

Building Regulations

When does building control come in?

Building Regulations stand apart from planning permission, listed building consent and the lease, and approval can be needed for a bathroom with new plumbing, electrics near a bath or shower, replacement windows and doors, or heating work. Where Richmond is the council for the address, its building control offers three routes, Building Notice, Full Plans and Regularisation; for each part of the work, decide which applies, who arranges inspections and who keeps the certificates.

When Building Regulations approval is needed · GOV.UK: Building Regulations approval · Richmond: how to make a Building Regulations application · Find the council for the property

Lease consent and Party Wall

Which private consents sit alongside the council’s?

If you own a leasehold flat in a converted Richmond house, start with the lease: it states whether the landlord or freeholder must agree in writing, and on what conditions, before floors, services or windows are altered. A freeholder’s agreement is a private matter and does not replace any approval from the council. Party Wall procedure is a further, separate regime, triggered only by qualifying work such as cutting into a shared wall.

LEASE: alterations and home improvements · Party-wall work requiring notice · When planning permission is required

Local facts that affect the brief

Apply the controls to the work you actually need

Appraisals adopted March and November 2023

Find the appraisal for your part of Richmond

Central Richmond, Richmond Green and Richmond Riverside were each designated on 14 January 1969, and their appraisals were adopted on 20 November 2023. Central Richmond was extended in 1977, 1988, 2000, 2003 and 2005, Richmond Green in 2005 and Richmond Riverside in 1977, 1982 and 2005. At the points checked, readings of the national dataset place George Street, Hill Street and Paradise Road in Central Richmond, and Old Palace Lane and Water Lane in Richmond Riverside.

Central Richmond conservation area appraisal, adopted 20 November 2023 · Richmond Green conservation area appraisal, adopted 20 November 2023 · Richmond Riverside conservation area appraisal, adopted 20 November 2023 · planning.data.gov.uk: conservation area dataset

Richmond Hill, designated in 1969 and extended in 1975, 1977 and 2000, has an appraisal adopted on 30 March 2023 that records the view from the hill as the only one in England protected by an Act of Parliament. St Matthias, which lies on the plateau and northern scarp of the hill and was designated on 5 July 1977, has a statement, as do Sheen Road, Kew Foot Road, Kew Road and Old Deer Park nearby; Richmond notes that appraisals are consulted on before adoption.

Richmond Hill conservation area appraisal, adopted 30 March 2023 · St Matthias conservation area statement · Richmond: conservation area studies and appraisals

Directions of 1994 and 2000

Look up the direction for your street

A direction of 2000, spanning Central Richmond, Richmond Riverside and other conservation areas, applies where work would front a highway or open space, and to chimneys in every case. At 14–25 Old Palace Lane and named houses in Park Road and Halford Road, it removes rights to enlarge or alter the house, alter the roof, add a porch or satellite antenna, change gates, fences or walls, paint the exterior or demolish gates and walls; St James’ Cottages carry a narrower set.

Article 4 direction 2000: Old Palace Lane, Park Road, Halford Road and other addresses · Richmond: Article 4 directions in conservation areas

The St Matthias direction of 1994 covers numbered houses in Montague Road, Rosemont Road, Dynevor Road, The Vineyard, Mount Ararat Road and Albany Terrace, and Houblon Road, and the rights it withdraws differ from street to street. The register also lists directions for 15–33 (odd) The Vineyard, for streets in the Sheen Road conservation area and for Lower Mortlake Road and Shaftesbury Road; read each one to see what it removes. The basement directions cover the whole borough.

St Matthias conservation area Article 4 direction, 1994 · Richmond: Article 4 directions register · Richmond: Article 4 directions on basements, together covering the whole borough

Local Plan adopted 7 October 2025

Apply the 2025 Local Plan alongside older guidance

The Local Plan 2024–2039 was submitted in January 2024, examined at hearings in June and July 2024 and adopted on 7 October 2025, after an Inspectors’ Report published in September 2025. It replaces the previous Local Plan and the Twickenham Area Action Plan, while the Ham and Petersham Neighbourhood Plan of 2019 remains. The text published so far is an interim, track-changes version, so confirm any wording against the final plan.

Richmond: adopted Local Plan 2024–2039, adopted 7 October 2025 · Richmond Local Plan adoption statement, 2025 · Richmond Local Plan 2024–2039: interim version for adoption, October 2025

Policy PBS6 sets the strategy for Richmond & Richmond Hill, and Policies 28, 29 and 46 cover design quality, heritage assets and amenity. The Richmond and Richmond Hill Village Planning Guidance, adopted on 7 June 2016, and the House Extensions and External Alterations SPD of 1 June 2015 remain on the council’s list of adopted SPDs but cite the superseded plan. A Trees and Development SPD dated 9 June 2026 is listed too.

Richmond Local Plan 2024–2039: interim version for adoption, October 2025 · Richmond and Richmond Hill Village Planning Guidance SPD · Richmond and Richmond Hill Village Planning Guidance adoption statement, 7 June 2016 · Richmond: House Extensions and External Alterations SPD, adopted 1 June 2015 · Richmond: supplementary planning documents and guidance

Policy 54; directions from 1 April 2018

Refit an existing basement or excavate a new one

Some older Richmond houses have basements, and Historic England’s entries for Old Palace Terrace and 28–40 Richmond Hill both record one; fitting out an existing basement room is a different project from excavation. Creating or extending a basement has needed planning permission across the borough from 1 April 2018, and Policy 54 resists more than one storey below existing ground, asks for a Structural Impact Assessment where a basement is added to or next to a listed building and requires a pumped device where there is a waste outlet.

Historic England: 2 to 6 Old Palace Terrace, Richmond Green, Grade II* · Historic England: 28–40 Richmond Hill, Grade II · Richmond: Article 4 directions on basements, together covering the whole borough · Richmond Local Plan 2024–2039: interim version for adoption, October 2025

Every basement application needs a Construction Management Plan, and if retaining walls come within 3 metres of the highway boundary the council’s Highway Structures Engineer must also give approval in principle. Richmond’s basement page adds that freeholder consent is always required, even before applying. Most points checked in the town lie outside Flood Zones 2 and 3, but points on Old Palace Lane, at the riverside end of Friars Lane and on Petersham Road by Buccleuch Gardens read Zone 3, where Table 16.5 restricts basements, so check the flood map for the address.

Richmond Local Plan 2024–2039: interim version for adoption, October 2025 · Richmond: basement developments · Environment Agency: Flood Zones 2 and 3 (rivers and sea) data · GOV.UK: flood map for planning, checked by address

Work out every consent the exact Richmond address needs before windows are ordered, a roof is changed or excavation is planned. The council’s planning decision, the reach of any Article 4 direction, listed building consent, conservation-area guidance, Building Regulations, any written consent the lease requires from the freeholder and the Party Wall Act each work separately; one approval never stands in for another, and the basement directions apply wherever you are in the borough.

When planning permission is required · Richmond: Article 4 directions in conservation areas · Richmond: listed buildings · Richmond: about conservation areas · When Building Regulations approval is needed · LEASE: alterations and home improvements · Party-wall work requiring notice · Richmond: Article 4 directions on basements, together covering the whole borough

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, listed interiors, basements and riverside lanes

Windows and front doors

Record the condition of each window and door before comparing repair, draught-stripping and secondary glazing with replacement. Listed building consent covers the inside and outside of a listed building, so read the list entry first. Where the 2000 direction applies, alterations facing a highway or open space can need permission, the St Matthias direction withdraws rights street by street, and a flat has no householder rights to rely on.

Richmond: listed buildings · Historic England: listed-building consent · Article 4 direction 2000: Old Palace Lane, Park Road, Halford Road and other addresses · St Matthias conservation area Article 4 direction, 1994 · Householder permitted development technical guidance

Bathrooms in listed and converted houses

In a terrace of three storeys over a basement, the soil stack route often decides where a new bathroom can sit; in a converted house, find the shared stack, isolation valves and access from the flat below. Fix falls, waterproofing and extraction before choosing finishes, trace damp to its cause, check the Building Regulations position, and in a listed house confirm whether new pipe runs need consent.

Historic England: 28–40 Richmond Hill, Grade II · When Building Regulations approval is needed · LEASE: alterations and home improvements · Richmond: listed buildings

Floors, structure and sound

Before lifting floorboards in a listed interior or taking out a partition, establish how the floor is framed, what earlier services have cut and whether the wall carries load, remembering that listing covers the inside of the building. Where a house has been divided into flats, settle sound insulation, floor build-up and the lease together, and give Party Wall notice only for work the Act covers.

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

Railings, front gardens and trees

The Grade I listing of 1–4 Maids of Honour Row takes in its gates and railings, and at named addresses the 2000 direction removes permitted development rights for gates, fences and walls fronting a highway or open space. Richmond expects an application for a protected tree whose trunk exceeds 7.5cm at 1.5m, and a section 211 notice for a conservation-area tree without a preservation order, decided within six weeks.

Historic England: 1–4 Maids of Honour Row, Richmond Green, Grade I · Article 4 direction 2000: Old Palace Lane, Park Road, Halford Road and other addresses · Richmond: protected trees and conservation-area trees · Tree preservation orders and conservation-area trees

Basements, riverside lanes and archaeology

Check a basement’s damp, drainage and ventilation before any refit. On Environment Agency data, points on Richmond Green, George Street, Hill Street and Richmond Hill lie outside Flood Zones 2 and 3, while Old Palace Lane and the riverside end of Friars Lane read Zone 3; check your address. Between the Green and the river, Historic England’s Richmond Palace area is Tier 1 for archaeology, so raise any digging early.

Environment Agency: Flood Zones 2 and 3 (rivers and sea) data · GOV.UK: flood map for planning, checked by address · Historic England: Richmond upon Thames Archaeological Priority Areas appraisal, March 2022

Insulation, heating and historic walls

In a historic Richmond house, plan insulation, heating, ventilation and moisture together rather than room by room. Class A.2 of the householder rules restricts external cladding in a conservation area, and a flat has none of those rights. Before fixing a specification, check whether a flue, vent or outdoor unit would alter a listed building, and read any Article 4 direction for the street.

Historic England: a whole-building approach · GPDO 2015, Schedule 2 Part 1: householder permitted development · Householder permitted development technical guidance · Historic England: listed-building consent · Article 4 direction 2000: Old Palace Lane, Park Road, Halford Road and other addresses · Richmond: Article 4 directions register

A practical plan for the street and building

Working hours, deliveries and shared access

Access, licences and TfL roads

Walk the route from the street to the room, including steps, a shared hall or a narrow lane. At the points checked on TfL’s data, Lower Mortlake Road, Clifford Avenue and Chertsey Road are TfL roads, while Kew Road, Petersham Road, Richmond Hill, Hill Street, George Street, Paradise Road, Sheen Road and Queen’s Road are not; check TfL’s map for your frontage, as TfL issues the highway licences on its roads. On council roads, a skip licence lasts up to three weeks and can be renewed, a bay suspension needs at least 10 working days’ notice and can be enforced outside controlled hours, and a scaffolding or hoarding licence is issued under the Highways Act 1980 only after a site meeting.

TfL: red routes and the TLRN map · TfL: highway licences on red routes · Richmond: apply for a skip licence · Richmond: parking suspensions · Richmond: scaffolding, hoarding and materials licences

Working hours and living with the work

Where Richmond upon Thames is the council for the address, noisy works are normally allowed between 8am and 6pm, Monday to Friday, and between 8am and 1pm on Saturday, with none on Sundays or bank holidays. Scaffolding falls within those limits, since the council’s Construction Code of Practice treats it as noisy work. Read any lease for tighter limits, warn neighbours and any managing agent in advance, and arrange temporary facilities if you plan to stay in.

Richmond: construction noise and permitted hours · Richmond: Construction Code of Practice, January 2022 · LEASE: alterations and home improvements · Find the council for the property

A clear scope before a price

Plan your renovation budget and quotation

Measured drawings and a written scope, not the TW9 postcode, should underpin a Richmond price. Separate room work from repairs to windows, roof and railings, from any listed fabric and from items shared with other flats, and state which consents and licences are included.

Existing condition and retained features

Establish what is there and what survives before any figure depends on it.

  • Floor plans, elevations and a condition report
  • Windows, doors, railings and chimneys recorded
  • Areas to open up for damp or structural checks

What each room will contain

Write a room schedule that every tender has to follow.

  • Room layouts with finish selections
  • Services: heating, water, power and ventilation
  • Owner-supplied fittings and who installs them

Approvals, access and street licences

Price the approvals and site set-up that apply to this property alone.

  • Listed building, planning or freeholder approval
  • Party Wall notice if, and only if, the Act applies
  • Skip, scaffold and bay suspension paperwork

Provisional items, exclusions and sequence

Settle how surprises will be priced, and the order of trades, before any contract.

  • Provisional allowances and what is excluded
  • Ordering times for windows and fittings
  • Certificates and records at handover

Neither the price nor the programme carries a fixed loading because the home is in Richmond. Each quotation should show its treatment of VAT, professional fees, consents, access and anything uncovered once work begins. Should you want only a bathroom, it is quoted as a standalone room.

From an idea to a workable scope

Prepare your brief and renovation budget

  1. Start with the address and the building

    Begin with the address and how the building is arranged: a whole house, a flat in a converted house or a flat in a purpose-built block, and which floor. Photographs of the front, the roof, any basement and any cracking or damp help, alongside a list of the rooms involved.

  2. Add the papers already in your hands

    Copies of any lease, any drawings from earlier work, past planning or listed building decisions and building control certificates all save time. If you have already found a list entry, conservation area, Article 4 direction or flood zone for the address, or know of trees near the work, say so.

  3. Separate fixed choices from open questions

    Some choices are fixed and others depend on investigation. Tell us which finishes and layouts you have settled, and which questions need a look under the floor, an engineer’s view, a drainage survey or a managing agent’s reply, so they appear as provisional items.

  4. Settle responsibilities and access

    Before work starts, settle who applies for what and who calls building control. Find out whether the street outside is a TfL road, plan licences, suspensions and protection of the common parts within the council’s hours, and decide whether you will live at home meanwhile.

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 Richmond 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 Richmond: practical answers

Do you accept standalone bathroom work in Richmond homes?

Yes. A Richmond bathroom, en-suite or cloakroom shower can be renovated as a project on its own; it does not need to be part of a wider refurbishment. To start, send the room’s size, some photographs, which floor it is on and where you think the soil stack runs, and tell us if a second bathroom will stay in use.

Is my Richmond home in a conservation area?

Check the full address on the council’s map. Point readings of the national dataset put George Street and Hill Street in Central Richmond, the Green in Richmond Green, Old Palace Lane and Water Lane in Richmond Riverside, and Richmond Hill, Petersham Road and Friars Stile Road in Richmond Hill; St Matthias, Sheen Road, Kew Foot Road and Kew Road lie nearby. The town’s name or a TW9 or TW10 postcode does not settle it.

Richmond: about conservation areas · planning.data.gov.uk: conservation area dataset · Central Richmond conservation area appraisal, adopted 20 November 2023 · Richmond Green conservation area appraisal, adopted 20 November 2023 · Richmond Riverside conservation area appraisal, adopted 20 November 2023 · Richmond Hill conservation area appraisal, adopted 30 March 2023 · Richmond: conservation area studies and appraisals

Could my Richmond home be listed or under Article 4?

Check both for the address. Historic England lists terraces such as Maids of Honour Row and Old Palace Terrace on the Green, and listed building consent reaches inside the building. Article 4 directions cover named houses on Old Palace Lane, Park Road and Halford Road, streets in the St Matthias area and parts of The Vineyard, among others, and the basement directions cover the whole borough.

Historic England: 1–4 Maids of Honour Row, Richmond Green, Grade I · Historic England: 2 to 6 Old Palace Terrace, Richmond Green, Grade II* · Richmond: listed buildings · Article 4 direction 2000: Old Palace Lane, Park Road, Halford Road and other addresses · St Matthias conservation area Article 4 direction, 1994 · Richmond: Article 4 directions register · Richmond: Article 4 directions on basements, together covering the whole borough

Should I repair or replace old windows in Richmond?

Begin with a frame-by-frame survey, then weigh repair, draught-proofing and secondary glazing against new windows. In a listed building, consent covers changes inside and out. Where the 2000 direction applies, altering a house where it faces a highway or open space can need planning permission, the St Matthias direction removes rights street by street, and a flat has no householder rights at all.

Richmond: listed buildings · Article 4 direction 2000: Old Palace Lane, Park Road, Halford Road and other addresses · St Matthias conservation area Article 4 direction, 1994 · Householder permitted development technical guidance

What consent does work inside a Richmond flat need?

Rearranging the inside of a flat is generally not development, so planning permission is seldom required, although outside work differs because flats have no householder rights. If the flat is leasehold, the lease states whether the freeholder or landlord must consent in writing and on what terms. Where the building is listed, interior changes may also need listed building consent, and Building Regulations approval can be needed on top of any other consent.

When planning permission is required · Householder permitted development technical guidance · LEASE: alterations and home improvements · Richmond: listed buildings · When Building Regulations approval is needed

Can a wall be removed, or the bathroom moved, in my Richmond home?

Structure comes first: find out whether the wall is loadbearing and how the floors are framed, then plan waste, supply and extract routes to the new position. In a listed Richmond house, consent can be needed for internal alterations. In a converted house, check the lease, the shared stack and sound between flats, and the Party Wall Act where it applies.

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

Can I extend or dig a basement in Richmond?

Fitting out a basement that already exists is a separate matter from digging one. From 1 April 2018, two Article 4 directions covering the whole borough have meant that new basement and subterranean development needs planning permission. Policy 54 resists more than one storey below ground and limits a basement to half the existing garden land. Near the river, check the flood zone, because Table 16.5 restricts basements in Zones 2 and 3.

Richmond: Article 4 directions on basements, together covering the whole borough · Richmond Local Plan 2024–2039: interim version for adoption, October 2025 · GOV.UK: flood map for planning, checked by address

What are Richmond’s hours for noisy building work?

Confirm the council for the address first. Richmond Council’s normal hours for noisy works are Monday to Friday, 8am–6pm, and Saturday, 8am–1pm, with none on Sundays and bank holidays. Its Construction Code of Practice applies to every site, is attached to relevant planning approvals and building control applications, and counts scaffolding as noisy work. Any lease may be stricter still.

Richmond: construction noise and permitted hours · Richmond: Construction Code of Practice, January 2022 · LEASE: alterations and home improvements · Find the council for the property

How can I tell whether Richmond quotations match?

Make sure the bids describe identical work: the same rooms, quantities, repairs and finishes, with a written statement of provisional sums, exclusions and VAT. Ask how listed fabric, Article 4 items, access from a TfL or council road, licences and protection of shared parts are handled. A Richmond address should not by itself add an uplift or fix a finish date.

Where is the studio, and which details help most?

We are based at Unit 3, Palace Court, 250 Finchley Road, London NW3 6DN, and we serve Richmond from this office. Include the address, the rooms concerned, photographs and any drawings, lease extracts, list entry or planning papers you have, along with your budget priorities.

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