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Builders in Hammersmith & Fulham
Narrow Victorian terraces, high specifications and neighbours on both sides.
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Building, renovating and extending in Hammersmith & Fulham
Fulham and Brook Green are built of long runs of Victorian terraces with back additions, and the standard programme — side return infill, loft conversion, full internal refurbishment — is extremely well established. So are the expectations around finish.
What makes this borough demanding is the physical constraint. Plots are narrow, there is no rear access, parking is controlled everywhere, and party wall awards with both neighbours are effectively a certainty on any structural work. It is a borough that punishes optimistic programming.
The housing stock in Hammersmith & Fulham
Victorian and Edwardian terraces with rear back additions across Fulham, Parsons Green, Brook Green and much of Shepherd's Bush. Larger Victorian villas around Ravenscourt Park and parts of Hammersmith. Mansion block stock throughout, and substantial new development around White City and the Fulham riverside.
Conservation coverage and basement policy
The borough has extensive conservation area coverage including Brook Green, Ravenscourt Park, Parsons Green, Hammersmith Broadway and Fulham's Peterborough Estate and Moore Park areas, with Article 4 directions in several. Hammersmith and Fulham also has a basement development policy limiting depth and extent and requiring supporting assessments, following a period of very heavy basement activity. Thames-adjacent parts of Fulham carry flood risk designation.
Planning note. Designations change, and two neighbouring streets can sit under entirely different rules. We confirm the conservation area status, any Article 4 direction and the relevant local policy for your specific address at survey stage — before any design work is paid for.
Areas we cover in Hammersmith & Fulham
Services
What we do in Hammersmith & Fulham
Every service below is delivered by our own teams in Hammersmith & Fulham — these four are the ones we are asked for most often here.
Loft Conversions
A whole extra floor without losing a square metre of garden.
House Extensions
Rear, side return, wrap-around and double-storey extensions.
Complete Renovations
Whole-house renovation, managed end to end by one contractor.
Structural Work
Steel beams, removing walls, underpinning and structural repair.
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Hammersmith & Fulham and the surrounding area
Our office is in Enfield, N18 — marked in white. Hammersmith & Fulham and the neighbouring boroughs we cover are shown in teal.
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Local FAQs
Building in Hammersmith & Fulham — common questions
On a side return or loft conversion in this borough, almost certainly with both neighbours. Notices are served one or two months before work, and a surveyor is appointed if a neighbour dissents. Start it early — it is the most common cause of a delayed start date here.
Subject to the council's basement policy, which restricts depth and extent and requires supporting assessments. Some properties remain viable; others are effectively ruled out. Establish which before commissioning a full design.
Scheduled deliveries into a permitted bay, material taken through the house under full protection, and waste bagged and collected rather than skipped where a skip permit will not be granted. It is slower and it is priced in from the outset.
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