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Renovations in Teddington

Victorian and Edwardian pairs, four-storey villas, flats

Outside the town centre, Richmond’s Local Plan describes Teddington as mainly Victorian and Edwardian terraced and semi-detached houses. In the Teddington Lock area stand four-storey villas with basements and attics, Cambridge Road and Manor Road have Edwardian pairs, Broom Water is built around a river inlet, and flats sit above High Street shops and in 1990s blocks by the Thames. Whatever the job, start from the building itself and from what its exact address requires.

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Choose the work your Teddington 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 Cottages, Edwardian pairs and villas

House refurbishment in Teddington

Teddington houses range from the two-storey terraced cottages of Watts Lane and Blackmore’s Grove to the Edwardian semi-detached houses of Cambridge Road and Manor Road, with gabled fronts, double-height canted bays and timber sashes, and the four-storey Victorian villas with basement and attic on Twickenham Road. The High Street appraisal notes that the Cambridge Road and Manor Road attics are often converted; the borough’s 2015 guidance is set against converting hipped roofs to gables.

  • Listing, conservation area and directions checked first
  • Attic conversion guidance checked before drawings
  • Canted bays, sashes and boundary walls surveyed
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02 Riverside blocks and flats over shops

Flat renovation in Teddington

Teddington flats include the 1990s riverside blocks of Regatta House, Fairmile House and Admiral House on Twickenham Road, the flats over High Street shops, where the appraisal finds the doorways to the flats above one parade in good original condition, and three- and four-storey flats of the 1950s on Bucklands Road. Changes to the outside of a flat can need planning permission, since householder permitted development rights do not cover flats. Check the lease too: it may call for the landlord’s consent first.

  • Lease read for any consent rule on alterations
  • Soil stack’s path through the flat checked
  • Window or façade changes noted for planning
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03 Cottage, attic and flat bathrooms

Bathroom renovation in Teddington

We welcome a standalone bathroom renovation, whether it is in a Watts Lane cottage, the converted attic of a Cambridge Road house or a flat above a High Street shop. Plumbing in a new bathroom may bring it under the Building Regulations, as GOV.UK explains. For a bathroom in a new dormer, Richmond’s 2015 guidance warns that a flat-roofed dormer may be out of character and suggests hipped or gabled dormers, or rooflights, instead.

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  • Dormer or rooflight form checked against the guidance
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Real projects, clearly located

Ideas for your Teddington refurbishment

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Belsize Park Gardens, NW3

Full-house refurbishment in Belsize Park with basement, extension and loft works.

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Local knowledge with a purpose

Understand the building before changing it

Teddington is in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, which plans it with Hampton Wick under place-based strategy PBS2; the 2017 Hampton Wick and Teddington Village Planning Guidance and a series of conservation area documents describe its streets area by area.

Teddington Lock Conservation Area was designated in 1977 and spans both banks of the Thames, with most development on the Teddington side and the Ham bank keeping its rural character. Its appraisal, adopted on 30 March 2023, takes in part of the High Street and residential streets such as Twickenham Road, Manor Road and Kingston Road. The lock, built in 1811 and rebuilt in stone in 1857, marks the end of the tidal Thames. At the eastern end of Ferry Road, modest two-storey cottages stand beside four-storey late Victorian semi-detached houses and a timber-clad boathouse.

Richmond: Teddington Lock conservation area statement and map (No. 27) · Richmond: Teddington Lock conservation area appraisal, adopted 30 March 2023 · Richmond Local Plan 2024–2039: interim version for adoption, October 2025

High Street Teddington Conservation Area, designated on 7 September 1982 and extended in 2013 and 2019, covers the High Street between the railway and Kingston Lane with Manor Road, Cambridge Road, Watts Lane and Waldegrave Road. Its 2023 appraisal describes a predominantly Victorian and Edwardian High Street with many original shopfronts. Cambridge Road and Manor Road, added in 2019, are lined mainly with Edwardian semi-detached houses, all of them Buildings of Townscape Merit, while Watts Lane is a compact group of two-storey 19th-century stock-brick terraced cottages.

Richmond: High Street Teddington conservation area appraisal, adopted 30 March 2023

Broom Water Conservation Area, designated on 15 March 1977, is formed around a river inlet between Broom Road and the Thames, and each house on Broom Water and Broom Water West has direct access to the creek and moorings. The 2017 guidance records the 21 houses on Broom Water as completed in 1899, Broom Water West built in phases, up to No. 12 by about 1907 and Nos. 14 and 16 by 1915, and its remaining houses between 1930 and 1965. The neighbouring Broom Road and Kingston Road character area has houses in pairs or small groups.

Richmond: Broom Water conservation area statement and map (No. 28) · Richmond: Hampton Wick and Teddington Village Planning Guidance SPD

The first local check

Check the address, not the TW11 postcode or the road name

Teddington is a ward, but so is Hampton Wick & South Teddington, and a TW11 postcode does not settle the council, the ward, the conservation area, the listing or the Article 4 position. Broom Water abuts the borough’s eastern boundary, and Kingston lies in the neighbouring borough beyond Hampton Wick. Broom Road shows why the street name is no guide: its north-west end, including 4–10, is in Teddington Lock Conservation Area, the houses on its south-west side either side of Atbara Road are in Broom Water Conservation Area, and Broom House on the King Edwards Grove corner is in King Edwards Grove Conservation Area. Check the council’s map, the list, the Article 4 directions, the title or lease and the planning history.

Richmond upon Thames Electoral Changes Order 2020: schedule of wards · Richmond: Hampton Wick and Teddington Village Planning Guidance SPD · Richmond Local Plan 2024–2039: interim version for adoption, October 2025 · Richmond: Teddington Lock conservation area statement and map (No. 27) · Richmond: Broom Water conservation area statement and map (No. 28) · Richmond: King Edwards Grove conservation area statement (No. 80) · Richmond: listed buildings · Richmond: Article 4 directions in conservation areas · 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 permission and householder rights

Does a new kitchen or bathroom in a Teddington home need planning permission?

Not when the work stays inside, since GOV.UK does not treat interior alterations as development. Changes to the outside are treated differently. Flats have no householder permitted development rights, so external changes to them can need planning permission. Houses do have those rights, within limits and conditions, but they are narrower in a conservation area, which counts as article 2(3) land, and Article 4 directions remove some of them from named houses on Twickenham Road, Kingston Road, Broom Road, Clarence Road, Cambridge Road, The Grove, Grove Terrace, Blackmore’s Grove, Field Lane and Bridgeman Road.

When planning permission is required · Householder permitted development technical guidance · Richmond: Teddington Lock and Teddington High Street Conservation Areas Article 4(2) direction, 12 March 1996 · Richmond: Park Road, The Grove and Blackmore’s Grove Teddington Article 4 direction, 20 March 2008 · Richmond: Article 4 directions in conservation areas

Listed buildings, local listing and conservation areas

Does listed building consent cover indoor work in Teddington?

Yes. Richmond’s listed buildings page says the need for consent applies to interiors, exteriors and works affecting a building’s setting. Teddington’s list entries include 163–167 High Street, which takes in Peg Woffington’s Cottage, Oak Cottage at 159 High Street, The Boathouse at 27 Ferry Road, Elmfield House and 83 and 85 High Street, all Grade II, and St Mary’s Church and the former St Alban’s Church at Grade II*. Many other houses are Buildings of Townscape Merit, including, the High Street appraisal says, all the Edwardian houses of Cambridge Road and Manor Road; being locally listed does not take away permitted development rights.

Richmond: listed buildings · Richmond: Teddington Lock conservation area appraisal, adopted 30 March 2023 · Planning Data: 163–167 High Street, Teddington, Grade II · Planning Data: Oak Cottage, 159 High Street, Teddington, Grade II · Planning Data: The Boathouse, 27 Ferry Road, Grade II · Planning Data: Elmfield House and garden wall, Teddington, Grade II · Planning Data: 83 and 85 High Street, Teddington, Grade II · Planning Data: Church of St Mary, Teddington, Grade II* · Planning Data: Church of St Alban, Teddington, Grade II* · Richmond: High Street Teddington conservation area appraisal, adopted 30 March 2023 · Richmond: Hampton Wick and Teddington Village Planning Guidance SPD · Richmond: Royal Road conservation area statement (No. 81) · Richmond: locally listed buildings (Buildings of Townscape Merit)

Building Regulations

Is Building Regulations approval separate from the other consents?

It is. Whatever planning, listing or lease consents a job has, the Building Regulations still have to be met. GOV.UK gives a bathroom that involves plumbing as one example of work that may need approval. If the council’s building control handles the job, the application is a Building Notice, Full Plans or Regularisation, and no completion certificate is issued until the Building Surveyor signs the work off. Settle at the outset who will apply and who keeps the certificate.

When Building Regulations approval is needed · Richmond: how to make a Building Regulations application

The lease, the freeholder and the Party Wall Act

Beyond the council, who else can a Teddington project involve?

In a leasehold flat, the landlord may have a say: LEASE points out that a lease can require the freeholder’s permission before alterations, whatever planning or Building Regulations approval is already in hand. Richmond also states that a basement always needs the freeholder’s consent. Neighbours are involved through the Party Wall Act only for notifiable work, for instance cutting into the wall shared by a pair of Edwardian semi-detached houses on Cambridge Road or by two terraced cottages on Watts Lane, or digging near and below their foundations.

LEASE: alterations and home improvements · Richmond: basement developments · Party-wall work requiring notice · Richmond: High Street Teddington conservation area appraisal, adopted 30 March 2023

Local facts that affect the brief

Apply the controls to the work you actually need

Areas from 1974; appraisals adopted 2023

From Teddington Lock to Wick Road: the conservation areas

Two Teddington areas have appraisals adopted on 30 March 2023. The Teddington Lock appraisal gives the designation as 7 September 1977, while the council’s statement and studies page give 15 March 1977; all agree on extensions in 1982 and 2005, and the appraisal and statement add 2019. The High Street Teddington appraisal says that area adjoins Teddington Lock to the east, Broad Street to the west and The Grove to the north. The Teddington Lock appraisal also says the lock’s two footbridges of 1888 are Grade II listed.

Richmond: Teddington Lock conservation area appraisal, adopted 30 March 2023 · Richmond: Teddington Lock conservation area statement and map (No. 27) · Richmond: conservation area studies and appraisals · Richmond: High Street Teddington conservation area appraisal, adopted 30 March 2023

The council’s own statement for each of the other areas gives these details. Park Road (No. 22), designated on 10 December 1974, has substantial 18th-century detached houses in mature grounds on its west side; The Grove (No. 26), from 15 March 1977, is a planned estate that the Royal Dutch Shell Co built for its employees after a house there was demolished in the 1920s; Blackmore’s Grove (No. 39), from 1982, is a tightly packed group of two-storey terraced cottages with a few detached and semi-detached houses; Broom Water (No. 28) was extended in 2003 and 2005. Broad Street (No. 84), Church Road (No. 85), Royal Road (No. 81), Wick Road (No. 83) and King Edwards Grove (No. 80) all date from 20 February 2019.

Richmond: Park Road (Teddington) conservation area statement (No. 22) · Richmond: The Grove conservation area statement (No. 26) · Richmond: Blackmore’s Grove conservation area statement (No. 39) · Richmond: Broom Water conservation area statement and map (No. 28) · Richmond: Broad Street conservation area statement (No. 84) · Richmond: Church Road conservation area statement (No. 85) · Richmond: Royal Road conservation area statement (No. 81) · Richmond: Wick Road conservation area statement (No. 83) · Richmond: King Edwards Grove conservation area statement (No. 80)

Article 4: 1996 and 2008

Which Teddington houses the two directions name

The Teddington Lock and Teddington High Street Conservation Areas direction, dated 12 March 1996, covers 7–17 (odd) Twickenham Road, 1–9 (odd) Kingston Road and 4–10 (even) Broom Road. It lists eight types of work, from enlargement, roof alterations and porches to hard surfaces, satellite antennae, gates, fences and walls, exterior painting and demolishing boundary enclosures, where the work fronts a highway or open space; it has no separate chimney clause. The council’s register gives Broom Road a 1993 date, but the direction itself is dated 1996.

Richmond: Teddington Lock and Teddington High Street Conservation Areas Article 4(2) direction, 12 March 1996 · Richmond: Teddington Lock conservation area appraisal, adopted 30 March 2023 · Richmond: Article 4 directions register

The direction dated 20 March 2008 covers 27–65 (odd) and 40–74 (even) Clarence Road, 58–84 (even) Cambridge Road, 15–29 The Grove, 1–19 and 21–27 Grove Terrace, 1–33 (odd) Blackmore’s Grove, 38–64 (even) Field Lane and 38 Bridgeman Road. It removes permitted development rights in eight categories where the work fronts a highway, and for chimneys in every case. Separately, a 2022 direction concerns turning commercial premises in the town centre and on parades such as the High Street and Waldegrave Road into homes, and the High Street appraisal asks for shop units to stay in shop use.

Richmond: Park Road, The Grove and Blackmore’s Grove Teddington Article 4 direction, 20 March 2008 · Richmond: Article 4 direction on commercial to residential change of use, in force 31 July 2022 · Richmond: High Street Teddington conservation area appraisal, adopted 30 March 2023

Local Plan 2025; village guidance 2017

Richmond’s 2025 plan and the Hampton Wick and Teddington guidance

Teddington’s current plan is the Richmond Local Plan 2024–2039, adopted on 7 October 2025, though the text online is an interim version still to receive minor modifications. Its Teddington and Hampton Wick strategy, PBS2, notes the Urban Design Study’s finding that Teddington Residential has uniform street patterns, consistent building quality and prevalent green infrastructure, with a high sensitivity to change, and sets the strategy of conserving its existing character.

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

The Hampton Wick and Teddington Village Planning Guidance SPD was adopted on 30 June 2017, prepared in light of the existing and emerging Local Plan policy of that time, and its character areas include Teddington Lock, the High Street, Broom Road and Kingston Road, and Broom Water. The 2023 appraisals refer front-garden parking questions to a Transport SPD; the council’s list now shows a Transport SPD adopted on 12 June 2026. For roofs, the borough-wide House Extensions and External Alterations SPD of 1 June 2015 is against turning a hip into a gable, finds hipped or gabled dormers often preferable to a flat-roofed one and suggests rooflights as another option.

Richmond: Hampton Wick and Teddington Village Planning Guidance adoption statement, 30 June 2017 · Richmond: Hampton Wick and Teddington Village Planning Guidance SPD · Richmond: Teddington Lock conservation area appraisal, adopted 30 March 2023 · Richmond: High Street Teddington conservation area appraisal, adopted 30 March 2023 · Richmond: supplementary planning documents and guidance · Richmond: House Extensions and External Alterations SPD, adopted 1 June 2015

Windows, roof coverings and excavation are where a missed consent is hardest to undo. Before ordering or starting any of them, set out for the exact address which regimes apply, and handle each on its own: planning permission, which new basements have needed across the borough since 1 April 2018; listed building consent; the conservation area’s controls; an Article 4 direction, if one lists the house; Building Regulations approval; any landlord’s or freeholder’s consent; a Party Wall notice where the work falls under the Act; and the tree notice or application that protected or conservation-area trees require.

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

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

Sashes and casements, stacks, rear extensions, front gardens, river and render

Sashes, casements and stone dressings

Windows vary street by street. The Cambridge Road and Manor Road houses have double-height canted bays and timber sashes, some houses on King Edwards Grove, Holmesdale Road and Kingston Road have casements with white-painted mullions and transoms and leaded upper panes, and 4–10 Broom Road are marked out by stone window dressings. The Teddington Lock appraisal names uPVC, roofing felt and glass fibre reinforced polymer among the poor-quality products putting pressure on its character. Look at each window closely before choosing repair or replacement.

Richmond: High Street Teddington conservation area appraisal, adopted 30 March 2023 · Richmond: Hampton Wick and Teddington Village Planning Guidance SPD · Richmond: Teddington Lock conservation area appraisal, adopted 30 March 2023

Stacks and extract in flats

Above a High Street shop, in the 1990s blocks on Twickenham Road or in the 1950s flats on Bucklands Road, a bathroom may drain into a stack that serves other homes. Find the stack and read the lease before moving the room, and plan the extract route at the same time. In a converted Cambridge Road or Manor Road attic, check the floor and the route down to the drains early. New pipework can bring the Building Regulations into play.

Richmond: High Street Teddington conservation area appraisal, adopted 30 March 2023 · Richmond: Teddington Lock conservation area appraisal, adopted 30 March 2023 · Richmond: Hampton Wick and Teddington Village Planning Guidance SPD · LEASE: alterations and home improvements · When Building Regulations approval is needed

Walls, floors and rear extensions

Our structural engineers confirm what a wall carries before it is taken out, and sound between flats is designed in whenever a floor is opened. At the back, the High Street appraisal counts rear alterations that remove historic interest, and the loss of historic outbuildings, among its pressures, so record what is there first. Richmond’s 2015 guidance discourages hip-to-gable extensions, and taking down a building of 115 cubic metres or more in a conservation area is relevant demolition, which needs planning permission.

Richmond: High Street Teddington conservation area appraisal, adopted 30 March 2023 · Richmond: House Extensions and External Alterations SPD, adopted 1 June 2015 · Richmond: about conservation areas

Front gardens, boundaries and parking

The Teddington Lock appraisal records the loss of boundary walls and garden space to hard standings and front lightwells as a pressure, notes that 15–17 Ferry Road have lost front gardens and boundaries to parking, and says the council will normally resist replacing gardens with car-parking hard standings where consent is needed. The Broom Water statement describes its Broom Road houses as mostly semi-detached, with deeper front gardens. The 1996 and 2008 directions control gates, fences, walls and hard surfaces at named houses where the work fronts a highway (in 1996, also open space).

Richmond: Teddington Lock conservation area appraisal, adopted 30 March 2023 · Richmond: Broom Water conservation area statement and map (No. 28) · Richmond: Teddington Lock and Teddington High Street Conservation Areas Article 4(2) direction, 12 March 1996 · Richmond: Park Road, The Grove and Blackmore’s Grove Teddington Article 4 direction, 20 March 2008

Basements, the river and trees

Some four-storey villas on Twickenham Road and the High Street have basements; a new one has needed planning permission since 1 April 2018. Policy 54 resists going deeper than one storey or under more than half the garden, and the Teddington Lock appraisal wants lightwells modest and at the side or rear. The 2017 guidance maps land at a one-in-a-hundred annual risk of Thames flooding and points to GOV.UK’s address check; Table 16.5 bars basements in Flood Zone 3b. Protected trees with trunks over 7.5cm across usually need a tree work application.

Richmond: Teddington Lock conservation area appraisal, adopted 30 March 2023 · Richmond: Article 4 directions on basements, together covering the whole borough · Richmond Local Plan 2024–2039: interim version for adoption, October 2025 · Richmond: Hampton Wick and Teddington Village Planning Guidance SPD · Richmond: protected trees and conservation-area trees

Render, roofs and energy upgrades

Plan insulation, heating and ventilation together before changing the outside. The houses at 1–9 Kingston Road have painted roughcast render, hipped roofs and buff stone window dressings, and the 1996 direction lists roof alterations and exterior painting among the works it controls on them where the work fronts a highway or open space, so check any external insulation, recoating or new roof covering first. In a listed building, consent reaches inside as well as out, so insulation and new services need checking too.

Richmond: Teddington Lock conservation area appraisal, adopted 30 March 2023 · Richmond: Teddington Lock and Teddington High Street Conservation Areas Article 4(2) direction, 12 March 1996 · Richmond: listed buildings

A practical plan for the street and building

Working hours, deliveries and shared access

Skips, scaffolding and bay suspensions

On a compact street such as Watts Lane, or above a shop on the High Street, decide early where materials, a skip and any scaffold can stand. Richmond grants skip licences for a path or road only to registered skip companies with public liability insurance, for no more than three weeks; if the skip sits in a controlled parking bay, that bay must be suspended too. For scaffolding, hoardings or materials, a site meeting with an Inspection and Enforcement Officer comes before any licence is issued, and the council’s silence never counts as consent. Allow at least 10 working days’ notice for a bay suspension, which may be enforced outside controlled hours.

Richmond: High Street Teddington conservation area appraisal, adopted 30 March 2023 · Richmond: apply for a skip licence · Richmond: scaffolding, hoarding and materials licences · Richmond: parking suspensions

Noise, neighbours and living through the work

Richmond allows noisy work between 8am and 6pm from Monday to Friday and between 8am and 1pm on Saturday, with no noisy work on Sundays or bank holidays, and its Construction Code of Practice puts scaffolding in the noisy category. Above a shop, agree delivery and working arrangements with the shop and the building’s owner as well as the neighbours. Check the lease for its own rules, and decide early whether you will stay in the home during the loudest stages.

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

A clear scope before a price

Plan your renovation budget and quotation

For a Teddington home, a sound budget rests on a survey of the building as it stands and a written scope every builder prices the same way. Price the outside, from sashes and casements to render, roof coverings and front boundaries, separately from the rooms, and flag whatever waits on a consent, the landlord, a tree decision or a Party Wall notice.

Existing condition

Measure and record the home as it is now, and send every bidder the same drawings and pictures so their prices start from one description.

  • Drawings with floor-to-ceiling heights
  • Windows, render and roof condition described
  • Areas needing exploratory opening named

Rooms, finishes and services

List for each room what comes out, what goes in and how walls, floors, joinery and fittings will be finished.

  • Each room’s fittings chosen and written down
  • Drainage and ventilation routes drawn
  • Items bought by you identified

Approvals and site arrangements

Record each consent, notice and street licence the work depends on, who arranges it and when it must be in place.

  • Listing, Article 4 and conservation status noted
  • Freeholder reply and Party Wall notice dated
  • Skip, scaffold and suspension bookings planned

Written allowances and sequence

Write the commercial terms into the contract: a named sum for each unknown, what is excluded and the order in which the trades follow one another.

  • Provisional sums listed separately
  • How VAT is charged spelled out
  • Final building control inspection included

Neither a surcharge nor a set programme follows from being in TW11; what the building needs and the agreed scope settle both. Each quotation should make clear how VAT applies and which professional fees, a structural engineer’s for instance, or drawings, are extra. A standalone bathroom gets its own quotation, built from the survey and fittings list for that room alone.

From an idea to a workable scope

Prepare your brief and renovation budget

  1. Address and type of home

    Send the full address and the house or flat number, because the Article 4 directions here name individual numbers and a single road such as Broom Road crosses several conservation areas. Say whether it is a house, a flat above a shop, a flat in a block or a converted house, and which floor; a few pictures of the outside and the rooms concerned are useful.

  2. Documents already held

    Papers worth sending, where they exist: the title or lease, past planning or listed building decisions, completion certificates from building control and any drawings. If it is a flat, include any rules the building sets for works and how to reach the managing agent or freeholder. Mention what you already know too: a list entry, a Building of Townscape Merit, a protected tree.

  3. Firm choices and open questions

    Some things will be decided, such as the rooms involved or a chosen shower; others hang on what the survey finds, what our structural engineers advise or what the council decides. List the open ones so every builder prices each as a named allowance in the same way.

  4. Timing and responsibilities

    Let us know the date you need the home again, the rooms that must keep working and whether you will move out for part of the job. We then confirm in writing who is responsible for the skip and scaffold licences, a bay suspension, tree consent, the freeholder’s approval and Building Regulations approval.

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

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Questions before you begin

Renovating in Teddington: practical answers

Can a Teddington bathroom be renovated as a standalone project?

Yes. A single bathroom, with the rest of the house or flat left as it is, is a standalone renovation we plan in its own right. Let us know the floor it is on and what lies below, where the waste appears to run and how the room is ventilated, with approximate sizes and a few pictures. If the bathroom would go into a new dormer, say so, since Richmond’s 2015 guidance says a flat-roofed dormer may be out of character.

Richmond: House Extensions and External Alterations SPD, adopted 1 June 2015

Is Broom Road in a conservation area, and how can I check my own Teddington street?

The exact house number decides it. Broom Road is split: its north-west end, including 4–10, is in Teddington Lock; houses on its south-west side either side of Atbara Road are in Broom Water; and Broom House on the King Edwards Grove corner is in King Edwards Grove. No conservation area is named after Broom Road. Teddington has others, such as High Street Teddington, The Grove, Park Road, Blackmore’s Grove, Broad Street, Church Road and Royal Road, while the Wick Road area lies between Teddington and Hampton Wick. Check the council’s map by house number.

Richmond: Teddington Lock conservation area statement and map (No. 27) · Richmond: Broom Water conservation area statement and map (No. 28) · Richmond: King Edwards Grove conservation area statement (No. 80) · Richmond: Wick Road conservation area statement (No. 83) · Richmond: conservation area statements

Might listing or one of the Article 4 directions affect a Teddington house?

Listing applies building by building; Oak Cottage at 159 High Street and The Boathouse at 27 Ferry Road are Grade II, for example, and listed building consent can cover internal work. Two Article 4 directions list houses one by one: 7–17 (odd) Twickenham Road, 1–9 (odd) Kingston Road and 4–10 (even) Broom Road under the 1996 direction, and numbered houses on Clarence Road, Cambridge Road, The Grove, Grove Terrace, Blackmore’s Grove, Field Lane and Bridgeman Road under the 2008 direction.

Planning Data: Oak Cottage, 159 High Street, Teddington, Grade II · Planning Data: The Boathouse, 27 Ferry Road, Grade II · Richmond: listed buildings · Richmond: Teddington Lock and Teddington High Street Conservation Areas Article 4(2) direction, 12 March 1996 · Richmond: Park Road, The Grove and Blackmore’s Grove Teddington Article 4 direction, 20 March 2008

Which rules apply before replacing windows in Teddington?

Record them first: the council describes canted bays and timber sashes on Cambridge Road and Manor Road, stone-dressed windows at 4–10 Broom Road, and casements with leaded upper panes on some houses in King Edwards Grove, Holmesdale Road and Kingston Road. The Teddington Lock appraisal names uPVC among poor-quality products. A listed building needs listed building consent, and a flat has no householder permitted development rights, so new windows that change its appearance need planning permission, besides any consent the lease requires.

Richmond: High Street Teddington conservation area appraisal, adopted 30 March 2023 · Richmond: Hampton Wick and Teddington Village Planning Guidance SPD · Richmond: Teddington Lock conservation area appraisal, adopted 30 March 2023 · Richmond: listed buildings · Householder permitted development technical guidance · LEASE: alterations and home improvements

Do I need the landlord’s agreement to refit a Teddington flat?

Possibly. Under some leases the freeholder’s permission is needed before alterations, as LEASE explains, even when planning permission or Building Regulations approval is already in place. Inside the flat, a refit is generally not development and rarely needs planning permission, though new bathroom plumbing may need Building Regulations approval and, in a listed building, consent can reach internal work. Above a shop, also check any access rights through the shop or yard.

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

What is involved in removing a wall or moving a bathroom in Teddington?

Before a wall comes out, our structural engineers check the load it carries. Where it is shared, as between a pair of Edwardian houses on Cambridge Road or terraced cottages on Watts Lane, notifiable work needs Party Wall notice. A bathroom moved to a new position still needs a workable fall to the stack, which in a block or above a shop may serve other flats, so read the lease. Building Regulations approval for the new pipework, and listed building consent for a listed house, may also be needed.

Party-wall work requiring notice · Richmond: High Street Teddington conservation area appraisal, adopted 30 March 2023 · LEASE: alterations and home improvements · When Building Regulations approval is needed · Richmond: listed buildings

Could I add or extend a basement in Teddington?

Only with planning permission, which new basements have needed across the borough since 1 April 2018. Policy 54 sets limits of one storey below ground and half the garden. Table 16.5 does not allow basements in Flood Zone 3b, and each scheme must come with a Construction Management Statement and needs the freeholder’s consent. Near the river, flood risk at the address is the first check; in the Teddington Lock area, the appraisal seeks lightwells of modest size placed to the side or rear.

Richmond: Article 4 directions on basements, together covering the whole borough · Richmond Local Plan 2024–2039: interim version for adoption, October 2025 · Richmond: basement developments · Richmond: Hampton Wick and Teddington Village Planning Guidance SPD · Richmond: Teddington Lock conservation area appraisal, adopted 30 March 2023

Are there fixed times for noisy building work in Teddington?

Yes. Under Richmond’s rules, noisy work is confined to weekdays between 8am and 6pm and Saturdays between 8am and 1pm, with Sundays and bank holidays kept quiet. The council’s Construction Code of Practice asks contractors to keep scaffolding within the same hours. Read the lease for any tighter limits, and warn neighbours and any shop below before the loud stages.

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

What should I look for when lining up Teddington builders’ prices side by side?

A fair comparison needs every builder to price one written scope. Then check each includes window, render and roof repairs, front boundary work, the skip and scaffold licences, the scaffold site meeting, any bay suspension and named provisional sums for hidden work. VAT and professional fees should be set out alike in every quotation. Each quotation should name who submits the Building Regulations application and, for a basement, who writes the Construction Management Statement.

Richmond: apply for a skip licence · Richmond: scaffolding, hoarding and materials licences · Richmond: parking suspensions · Richmond: basement developments · Richmond: how to make a Building Regulations application

Where is the studio that serves Teddington, and how do I start?

Our studio is at Unit 3, Palace Court, 250 Finchley Road, London NW3 6DN, and we serve Teddington from this office. To begin, send a short note with the address and house or flat number, the rooms in question and some pictures. Keep the lease, past decisions and old drawings ready for the next stage.

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