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Wimbledon Renovations & Design-Build — SW19

Victorian and Edwardian houses by the Common

Plan your house, flat or bathroom around the building as it stands: a Victorian or Edwardian house in a large garden, a house near the Common or on the Ridgway, or a flat in a converted house or above a town-centre shop. Tell us the rooms you want to change and what any lease or planning history shows.

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Choose the work your Wimbledon 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 Wimbledon

Wimbledon houses range from Victorian and Edwardian homes in large, well-planted gardens to distinctive houses near the Common and along the Ridgway. Plan heating, wiring and bathrooms alongside repairs to roofs, windows, front boundaries and hedges, and confirm the conservation area, any listing and any Article 4 direction before the exterior is specified.

  • Merton conservation map and list entry checked
  • Roof, windows and front boundary condition recorded
  • Structure, heating and wiring planned room by room
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02 Conversions and town-centre flats

Flat renovation in Wimbledon

A Wimbledon flat may be one floor of a converted house or a home above a shop near the town centre, sharing structure, stacks and an entrance with neighbours. Read the lease’s terms on alterations before fixing the layout and obtain any written consent, find out who controls shared drainage, and note that flats carry no householder permitted development rights.

  • Lease conditions and landlord consent established
  • Shared stack and supply valves located
  • Stair protection and delivery times agreed in advance
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03 En-suites and family bathrooms

Bathroom renovation in Wimbledon

A standalone bathroom renovation is welcome, whether it is a family bathroom in an Edwardian house, an en-suite within an existing layout or the only shower room in a converted flat. Start with the floor structure, the fall to the stack and the line for the extract duct, then specify waterproofing, lighting, tiles and fittings together.

  • Drainage fall and fan outlet settled before design
  • Building Regulations route for new circuits chosen
  • A fallback shower sorted if no other bathroom exists
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Real projects, clearly located

Ideas for your Wimbledon 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

Wimbledon’s homes run from Victorian and Edwardian houses in large gardens to houses by the Common and residential streets near the town centre, and several Merton conservation areas share the Wimbledon name. Know which area applies, whether the building is listed and who else lives in it before drawing up a layout.

Merton’s Local Plan calls Wimbledon Village a Local Centre with a unique and attractive environment, whose high-quality physical fabric and landscaping are protected by conservation area designations, and Policy N9.1 seeks to maintain the Village’s character and built form. Merton’s 1996 design guide describes the Village conservation area as largely commercial, with its distinctive houses mainly along the eastern end of the Ridgway and at the Common.

Merton Local Plan, adopted 20 November 2024: policy document · Merton: Wimbledon Village conservation area design guide, March 1996

Merton’s Wimbledon West assessment quotes the 1976 extension report, which called the area a high point of Victorian and Edwardian domestic architecture, with large, well-planted gardens. Wimbledon North covers land east of the south-east corner of Wimbledon Common and north and east of the Village, while Wimbledon Hill Road is very varied, taking in part of the busy town centre as well as residential streets.

Merton: Wimbledon West conservation area character assessment, 2004 · Merton: Wimbledon North conservation area character assessment (final post-consultation draft) · Merton: Wimbledon Hill Road conservation area character assessment, July 2006

Historic England lists Eagle House on the High Street, built in 1613 for Robert Bell and restored in 1887 by T G Jackson, at Grade II*, as it does Southside House, a pair of houses of 1751 later unified and remodelled in the mid-20th century. At Grade II it lists 17 Lauriston Road, a detached red-brick house of 1891 designed by James Ransome. A neighbour’s entry says nothing about your own, so search the list for your address.

Historic England: Eagle House, High Street, Wimbledon, Grade II* · Historic England: Southside House, Wimbledon, Grade II* · Historic England: 17 Lauriston Road, Wimbledon, Grade II · Historic England: listed-building consent

The first local check

Look past the Wimbledon name and the postcode

Wimbledon is the area we serve, and several official areas share the name: Merton’s Wimbledon Village, Wimbledon North, Wimbledon West, Wimbledon Hill Road and Wimbledon Broadway conservation areas, its Wimbledon Town and Dundonald and Wimbledon Park wards, and a separate Wimbledon North conservation area that Wandsworth designates within its own borough. Map readings put The Broadway, Worple Road and Parkside outside any conservation area at the points checked. Nothing about SW19 confirms which council, conservation boundary, listing, Article 4 direction, owner or consent route applies; look the address up on the councils’ maps and read its list entry, lease or title and planning record.

Merton: list of conservation areas, appraisals and design guides · Merton: Article 4 directions · Wandsworth: conservation area appraisals · Merton: Wimbledon North conservation area character assessment (final post-consultation draft) · planning.data.gov.uk: conservation area dataset · Find the council for the property · Historic England: listed-building consent · 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

Is internal work in Wimbledon development?

Work that stays inside a Wimbledon house or flat is generally not development, so it seldom needs planning permission; extensions, exterior changes and changes of use are judged on their own. Flats have no Part 1 householder rights. A house keeps them within their limits, subject to earlier conditions and any Article 4 direction, such as the John Innes directions in Merton Park and Wilton Crescent, and on conservation-area land roof additions are excluded.

When planning permission is required · Householder permitted development technical guidance · GPDO 2015, Schedule 2 Part 1: householder permitted development · Merton: Article 4 directions · Merton: John Innes conservation areas, second Article 4(2) direction, confirmed 25 June 2007

Listed buildings and conservation areas

Can listing reach the inside of the house?

Yes. Merton says that demolishing a listed building, or altering or extending it in a way likely to affect its special historic interest, needs listed building consent, and that working without it is an offence; Historic England’s guidance confirms consent can cover interior work. Conservation-area status is a different control: Merton publishes character assessments and design guides for its areas, and the Local Plan deals with heritage assets in Policy D12.5.

Merton: statutory listed buildings · Historic England: listed-building consent · Merton: list of conservation areas, appraisals and design guides · Merton Local Plan, adopted 20 November 2024: policy document

Building Regulations

Who signs off the plumbing, wiring and structure?

Building Regulations sit outside planning, listed building consent and the lease, and a bathroom with new plumbing, or electrics near a bath or shower, needs approval. Choose early between the building control service of the council for the address, Merton’s in Merton, and a registered building control approver, and agree who books inspections and keeps the completion certificates. If a block is at least 18 metres or seven storeys high with two or more homes, most work goes to the Building Safety Regulator.

When Building Regulations approval is needed · GOV.UK: Building Regulations approval · Find the council for the property · Merton: building control

Lease consent and Party Wall work

Who else, apart from the council, may need to agree?

For a leasehold flat in a converted house or over a shop, the lease states when the landlord must agree in writing and what conditions can be attached to floors, services and windows, so read it before the layout is drawn. Party Wall notices are a separate matter, needed only where the work falls within the Act, for example cutting into a shared wall or digging close to the next house; a bathroom refit does not engage it by default.

LEASE: alterations and home improvements · Party-wall work requiring notice

Local facts that affect the brief

Apply the controls to the work you actually need

Assessments 2004–2007; Village guide 1996

Read the guidance written for your conservation area

Merton’s documents agree that a single Wimbledon conservation area was extended in 1986 and, in February 1987, divided into Wimbledon North, Wimbledon Village and Wimbledon West. The Village has a design guide of March 1996. Wimbledon West’s character assessment of 2004 works through named parts such as the Cannizaro Arm, the Ridgway and Copse Hill, while Wimbledon North, extended in 1990, 1991 and 1993, is described sub-area by sub-area: the historic core, Wimbledon Park, Leopold Road, Belvedere, Lancaster Road and Wimbledon House.

Merton: list of conservation areas, appraisals and design guides · Merton: Wimbledon Village conservation area design guide, March 1996 · Merton: Wimbledon West conservation area character assessment, 2004 · Merton: Wimbledon North conservation area character assessment (final post-consultation draft)

The Wimbledon North assessment is marked as a final post-consultation draft, dated November 2006 and June 2007, and Wimbledon Hill Road, designated by the council in 1984, has an assessment dated July 2006; these assessments cite the 2003 Unitary Development Plan, so read them with the 2024 Local Plan. At the points checked, map readings place the High Street in the Village area, Wimbledon Hill Road and Mansel Road in Hill Road, Arthur Road in North, and the Ridgway, Lauriston Road and Southside Common in West.

Merton: Wimbledon North conservation area character assessment (final post-consultation draft) · Merton: Wimbledon Hill Road conservation area character assessment, July 2006 · Merton: new Local Plan, adopted 20 November 2024 · planning.data.gov.uk: conservation area dataset

Wimbledon Broadway has a map and design guide only. At the points checked, map readings place Mostyn Road in the John Innes (Merton Park) conservation area, which has its own Article 4 directions. Merton’s conservation area list links each area’s map and documents, so start there with the full address rather than the neighbourhood name.

Merton: list of conservation areas, appraisals and design guides · planning.data.gov.uk: conservation area dataset · Merton: Article 4 directions

John Innes directions confirmed 25 June 2007

Article 4 directions differ across SW19

Merton lists no Article 4 direction for the Wimbledon Village, North, West or Hill Road conservation areas, and none for basements. In the John Innes conservation areas of Merton Park and Wilton Crescent, two directions confirmed on 25 June 2007 apply to frontages onto a highway or public space: the first covers hard surfaces and new means of access, to protect front boundaries such as holly hedges, and the second covers alterations, porches, roof changes and painting.

Merton: Article 4 directions · Merton: John Innes conservation areas, first Article 4(2) direction, confirmed 25 June 2007 · Merton: John Innes conservation areas, second Article 4(2) direction, confirmed 25 June 2007

The second direction reaches replacement doors and windows of a different style or material and changes to external finishes; routine repainting needs no application, but painting unpainted masonry, brick or pebbledash does. Separately, Merton made an immediate direction on 24 March 2026 on small houses in multiple occupation for wards including Village, Wimbledon Town and Dundonald and Wimbledon Park, and an office-to-homes direction covers Wimbledon town centre; both concern changes of use rather than alterations.

Merton: John Innes conservation areas, second Article 4(2) direction, confirmed 25 June 2007 · Merton: Article 4 directions

Merton Local Plan adopted 20 November 2024

Work from the Merton Local Plan 2038

Merton adopted its new Local Plan on 20 November 2024, after receiving the Inspectors’ report on 7 October 2024. The adoption statement names it the Merton Local Plan 2038, says it carries full weight and records that it superseded the Core Planning Strategy of 2011, the Sites and Policies Plan of 2014 and the 2014 Policies Map. Older guidance written for those documents should be read against the new plan.

Merton: new Local Plan, adopted 20 November 2024 · Merton Local Plan 2038 adoption statement, 20 November 2024

For homes, the relevant policies include N9.1 for Wimbledon, D12.4 on alterations and extensions, D12.5 on managing heritage assets, D12.10 on dwelling conversions, D12.11 on basements, F15.8 on local flooding and O15.4 on trees. Merton’s supplementary documents include a 2021 Borough Character Study, a 2021 small sites toolkit, a 2020 SuDS document and the 2020 FutureWimbledon design guide for the town centre; no house-extension document appears on its list.

Merton Local Plan, adopted 20 November 2024: policy document · Merton: supplementary planning documents

Policy D12.11 and the 2017 Basement SPD

An existing lower floor is not a new basement

Fitting out a lower-ground room that already exists is a different job from excavating, and Merton lists no basement Article 4 direction. Under Policy D12.11, a basement added to an existing building must be a single storey, and any part beyond the original outer walls may cover no more than half the original dwelling’s footprint. No new basement may run under the public highway, and a basement draining to the sewer needs suitable positively pumped devices.

Merton: Article 4 directions · Merton Local Plan, adopted 20 November 2024: policy document

Every basement application must include a Basement Impact Assessment, a drainage strategy, an outline Construction Method Statement and a Construction Traffic Management Plan, and the developer must join the Considerate Constructors Scheme. In conservation areas, Merton supports basements that conserve or enhance, with particular attention to light wells and railings. Its Basement and Subterranean Development SPD of 2017 sets out further guidance.

Merton Local Plan, adopted 20 November 2024: policy document · Merton: Basement and Subterranean Development SPD, 2017

Before you order windows, change a roof or front boundary, or commit to excavation in Wimbledon, confirm the consent route for the exact address. Article 4 directions and planning permission, listed building consent, conservation-area guidance, Building Regulations, the lease and the Party Wall Act are distinct regimes; clearing one leaves the rest to be dealt with, and a draft assessment carries no adopted status.

Merton: Article 4 directions · Historic England: listed-building consent · Merton: list of conservation areas, appraisals and design guides · When Building Regulations approval is needed · LEASE: alterations and home improvements · Party-wall work requiring notice

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

Houses in large gardens, shared stacks, front boundaries and lower floors

Windows, doors and roofs

Note the condition of every window and external door, then compare repair and draught-stripping with secondary glazing or replacement. In the John Innes conservation areas, a direction removes permitted development rights for roof alterations and for doors and windows of a different style or material facing a highway or public space. A listed building needs consent for alterations affecting its special interest, and a flat has no householder rights.

Merton: John Innes conservation areas, second Article 4(2) direction, confirmed 25 June 2007 · Merton: statutory listed buildings · Historic England: listed-building consent · Householder permitted development technical guidance

Bathrooms, stacks and moisture

Where the soil stack runs, and how far a waste pipe can fall to reach it, usually fixes the bathroom position in a Wimbledon house. Flats in converted houses often share stacks and rising supplies with the homes above and below, so ask who is responsible for them. Agree extraction and the waterproofed build-up before choosing tiles; new circuits near a bath or shower need Building Regulations approval.

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

Conversions, floors and sound

Before a wall is taken out, have an engineer confirm whether it is load-bearing and how the joists run. Where a house is already split into flats, sound between homes, the depth of the floor build-up and the lease’s conditions have to be resolved as one question, with Approved Document E in view. Turning a house into flats is a separate proposal, assessed under Merton’s dwelling conversions policy, D12.10.

When Building Regulations approval is needed · GOV.UK: Approved Document E, resistance to sound · LEASE: alterations and home improvements · Merton Local Plan, adopted 20 November 2024: policy document

Front gardens, hedges and trees

In the John Innes areas, the first direction brings hard surfaces and new access under control to protect front boundaries, hedges and holly hedges, and painting unpainted brick or pebbledash needs an application. For a tree in any conservation area, give notice: Merton has six weeks to respond, with deemed consent if it does not, and eight weeks to decide on a tree with a preservation order.

Merton: John Innes conservation areas, first Article 4(2) direction, confirmed 25 June 2007 · Merton: John Innes conservation areas, second Article 4(2) direction, confirmed 25 June 2007 · Merton: tree preservation orders and conservation-area trees · Tree preservation orders and conservation-area trees

Lower floors, flood readings and archaeology

Trace damp before fitting out an existing lower floor. No Wimbledon point checked, including the High Street, Wimbledon Hill Road, Worple Road and Arthur Road, read Flood Zone 2 or 3, but Plough Lane read Zone 3 from a river source; check your address. Historic England’s April 2016 Merton appraisal proposes a Wimbledon Village priority area from Parkside at Somerset Road to Worple Road; ask Merton whether it applies.

Environment Agency: Flood Zones 2 and 3 (rivers and sea) data · GOV.UK: flood map for planning, checked by address · Historic England: Merton Archaeological Priority Areas appraisal, April 2016

Energy upgrades and external plant

Decide insulation, heating and ventilation in one go, since together they govern how damp moves through old brickwork and roof spaces. Before plant, flues or vents go on a visible elevation, check the conservation area, any list entry and, in the John Innes areas, whether the direction on external alterations applies. Ask how D12.4 on alterations bears on any external change.

Historic England: a whole-building approach · Merton: list of conservation areas, appraisals and design guides · Historic England: listed-building consent · Merton: John Innes conservation areas, second Article 4(2) direction, confirmed 25 June 2007 · Merton Local Plan, adopted 20 November 2024: policy document

A practical plan for the street and building

Working hours, deliveries and shared access

Skips, scaffolding and street access

Walk the route materials will take from kerb to room, shared stair included. On readings of TfL’s data, none of the roads checked in Wimbledon, among them Wimbledon Hill Road, the High Street, Parkside, The Broadway, Worple Road, Kingston Road and the Ridgway, was a TfL road at the points checked, so Merton licenses them; check TfL’s map for your frontage. Merton issues skip licences only to registered skip hire companies, for two weeks at a time, may refuse or restrict them around the Wimbledon Championships and firework displays, and allows no skip on a red route or double yellow lines. Scaffold and hoarding licences go only to contractors or scaffold companies after a site meeting, and a parking suspension needs at least ten full working days’ notice.

TfL: red routes and the TLRN map · Merton: skip licences · Merton: scaffolding and hoarding licences · Merton: parking suspensions

Noisy work, neighbours and occupation

Merton allows noisy work from 8am to 6pm Monday to Friday and 8am to 1pm on Saturday, and not normally on Sundays or bank holidays. Every site must follow its Construction Code of Practice, Cleaner Construction for London of 2022. Look in the lease for tighter limits, give neighbours and any managing agent the dates, and settle early whether you will stay at home during the works.

Merton: building noise and permitted hours · Merton: Construction Code of Practice (Cleaner Construction for London, 2022) · LEASE: alterations and home improvements

A clear scope before a price

Plan your renovation budget and quotation

Price a Wimbledon project from measured drawings and a written scope; the SW19 postcode says nothing about cost. Separate room work from repairs to roofs, windows and front boundaries, and list listed, shared-building and street items on their own lines so quotations can be compared directly.

The house or flat as found

Capture the existing condition so that nothing in the price is assumed.

  • Scaled survey drawings and condition photographs
  • Roof, window and boundary repairs itemised
  • Trial openings for joists, damp and drains

Room schedule and services

Describe every room so that competing prices answer one question.

  • Plans, quantities and finishes for each room
  • Drainage, heating, ventilation and wiring scope
  • Owner-supplied items and who installs them

Consents and street arrangements

Allow only for the approvals and licences the work actually requires.

  • Planning, heritage and landlord approvals as relevant
  • Party Wall notice only where the Act applies
  • Skip, scaffold and suspension licences from the council

Allowances and order of work

Show the open risks, and who carries them, before signing anything.

  • Provisional sums, exclusions and VAT set out
  • Ordering points for windows and bathroom fittings
  • Inspection records and certificates at handover

Wimbledon carries no standard surcharge, and the postcode does not set the length of the job. Each quotation should show how VAT, professional fees, licences, the lease and anything found once work starts are dealt with. A bathroom on its own receives a standalone quotation for that one room.

From an idea to a workable scope

Prepare your brief and renovation budget

  1. Tell us about the home

    Start with the full address and the kind of home, a house, a flat in a conversion or a flat over a shop, plus the floor it is on. Then name the rooms to change and add photographs of the front, the garden side, the stair and any damp.

  2. Share what you already hold

    Gather the papers you have: plans from earlier work, the lease and block rules, past planning or listed building decisions and building control completion certificates. Mention the conservation area or Article 4 direction if you know it, and any trees or hedges near the work, particularly on a front boundary.

  3. Mark what is fixed and what is open

    Separate the certain from the uncertain: known repairs, the plan you are after and finishes you have chosen on one side. Then flag what depends on opening up, an engineer’s view or the landlord’s reply, so those items can be priced as provisional sums and firmed up later.

  4. Settle roles, access and timing

    Agree who prepares each application, serves each notice and arranges inspections. Work out deliveries and the council’s skip and scaffold licences, how shared parts will be protected and whether you will stay in, and decide how variations and completion papers will be logged.

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 Wimbledon: practical answers

Do you renovate a single bathroom in Wimbledon?

Yes. A standalone bathroom, en-suite or shower room can be the whole job, whether or not anything else in the home is changing. Measurements, a handful of photographs, the floor level and roughly where you think the soil stack runs are enough to begin, along with whether a second bathroom stays in use.

Which conservation area is my Wimbledon home in?

It depends on the exact address. Merton’s areas include Wimbledon Village, Wimbledon North, Wimbledon West, Wimbledon Hill Road and Wimbledon Broadway, and, in Merton Park, the John Innes area with its own directions. Wandsworth has its own, separate Wimbledon North conservation area. At the points checked, The Broadway, Worple Road and Parkside were outside any conservation area, so check the map for your address.

Merton: list of conservation areas, appraisals and design guides · Wandsworth: conservation area appraisals · planning.data.gov.uk: conservation area dataset · Find the council for the property

Are there Article 4 or listing controls on my Wimbledon home?

Merton lists no Article 4 direction for the Wimbledon Village, North, West or Hill Road conservation areas, while the John Innes areas of Merton Park and Wilton Crescent have two, covering hard surfaces, new access, windows, doors, roofs and painting on frontages. Listing goes entry by entry: Eagle House and Southside House are Grade II*, and 17 Lauriston Road is Grade II. Search the list for your own address.

Merton: Article 4 directions · Merton: John Innes conservation areas, first Article 4(2) direction, confirmed 25 June 2007 · Merton: John Innes conservation areas, second Article 4(2) direction, confirmed 25 June 2007 · Historic England: Eagle House, High Street, Wimbledon, Grade II* · Historic England: Southside House, Wimbledon, Grade II* · Historic England: 17 Lauriston Road, Wimbledon, Grade II · Historic England: listed-building consent

Can I change the windows or front door?

Check the building’s status first. A listed building needs consent for alterations likely to affect its special interest. In the John Innes conservation areas, an Article 4 direction removes permitted development rights for replacement doors and windows of a different style or material facing a highway or public space. A flat has no householder rights, so confirm whether planning permission applies and what the lease allows before anything is ordered.

Merton: statutory listed buildings · Historic England: listed-building consent · Merton: John Innes conservation areas, second Article 4(2) direction, confirmed 25 June 2007 · Householder permitted development technical guidance · LEASE: alterations and home improvements

Is consent needed to refit the inside of my flat?

New layouts and finishes within a flat are not normally development, so a planning application is seldom needed. For a leasehold flat, the lease decides whether written landlord consent is required and what conditions can be attached to floors, services and windows. Listing can bring internal changes under consent where they touch the building’s special interest, and Building Regulations approval covers a bathroom with new plumbing, electrics near a bath or shower and structural alterations.

When planning permission is required · LEASE: alterations and home improvements · Historic England: listed-building consent · Merton: statutory listed buildings · When Building Regulations approval is needed

Can I open up a wall or relocate the bathroom?

Usually, once the facts are known. Get an engineer’s view on whether the wall is load-bearing and how the joists sit, then map the waste fall, water feed and extract duct to the new position. A listed building can need consent for internal changes. For a flat, the lease, sound insulation between homes and any Party Wall duties all come into it too.

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

Can I build a basement under my Wimbledon house?

Digging a new basement is a different project from refitting an existing lower floor, and Merton lists no basement Article 4 direction. Policy D12.11 limits a basement under an existing building to one storey and caps the part beyond the original walls at half the original footprint. Applications need a Basement Impact Assessment, a drainage strategy, an outline Construction Method Statement and a Construction Traffic Management Plan.

Merton: Article 4 directions · Merton Local Plan, adopted 20 November 2024: policy document · Merton: Basement and Subterranean Development SPD, 2017

At what times may builders make noise in Wimbledon?

Merton permits noisy work between 8am and 6pm on weekdays and from 8am to 1pm on Saturdays; on Sundays and bank holidays it is not normally allowed. Every site must also follow the council’s Construction Code of Practice. A lease or a building’s house rules can set narrower limits, so read them before the timetable is agreed.

Merton: building noise and permitted hours · Merton: Construction Code of Practice (Cleaner Construction for London, 2022) · LEASE: alterations and home improvements

How do I compare quotations for the same Wimbledon job?

Put the documents side by side and check they price identical rooms, quantities, repairs and finishes, with each allowance, exclusion and VAT position written out. Then compare how each treats listed fabric, front boundaries, shared stairs, the council’s licences and the landlord’s conditions. A Wimbledon address sets neither a surcharge nor a completion date, so resolve the main unknowns before agreeing a sequence.

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 Wimbledon from this office. To get started, send the address, the rooms involved and a few photographs, plus any lease, drawings or planning papers and what matters most within your budget.

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