Design & Build in Knightsbridge, SW7
One team for the whole project in Knightsbridge: architecture, approvals, construction, kitchens, bathrooms and interiors under a single contract with a single point of contact.
Covered under one contract
- Survey, brief and concept design
- Planning, building regulations and consents
- Structural design
- Construction with our own trades
- Kitchens, bathrooms, joinery and interiors
- Decoration, snagging and handover
Design & Build in Knightsbridge.
Design and build means we take responsibility for the whole project, from the first sketch to the day you move back in. There is one contract, one programme and one person to call, and the people who drew the scheme are in the same office as the people building it.
For a house or flat in Knightsbridge that covers the measured survey, concept and developed design, planning and building regulation drawings, the applications themselves, construction by our own site team, the kitchen and bathrooms we supply, joinery, decoration and handover with a guarantee on the work.
The advantage is simple: nothing falls between an architect, a planning consultant and a builder, because they are the same team. Problems are solved on the drawing board rather than on site, and the price and programme are set before work starts.
- Area
- Knightsbridge, SW7 · SW1X
- Council
- Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea and City of Westminster
- Housing
- Red-brick Dutch-gabled terraces of the Cadogan estate, stucco squares around Brompton and Thurloe, mews houses and lateral apartments
- Transport
- Knightsbridge, South Kensington, Sloane Square
- Responsibility
- One company, one contract
- Design stage
- 4 to 8 weeks
- Approvals
- Managed by us
- Contract
- JCT Home Owner/Occupier or commercial equivalent
- Aftercare
- Snagging and workmanship guarantee
Knightsbridge: the houses and the planning rules.
Knightsbridge is estate London at its most exacting. The Cadogan estate's red-brick Queen Anne terraces around Hans Place and Pont Street, the stucco squares of Thurloe and Brompton, and the mews behind them are all in conservation areas, much of it listed, and the estates have their own design requirements on top of the borough's.
Refurbishments here are mostly of lateral flats and mews houses, with kitchens, bathrooms and joinery specified to a very high standard and delivered around the constraints of estate consent, porters, lifts and neighbours who expect quiet. We have worked to these rules for many years, starting a mile north in Marylebone.
The Knightsbridge, Hans Town, Brompton and Thurloe Estate conservation areas cover the whole district.
Two councils
The boundary between RBKC and Westminster runs through the district; we check which authority applies at the first visit and prepare the application to its requirements.
Estate consent
The Cadogan and Wellcome estates require their own approval for alterations, with detailed guidance on windows, roofs and mews frontages.
Flats
Almost all the housing is flats, so licences to alter, block working hours and structural sign-off from the freeholder's surveyor form part of every programme.
Approvals for design and build in Knightsbridge.
All approvals are managed within the contract, so design, consent and construction run as one programme with one team responsible for each.
The boundary between RBKC and Westminster runs through the district; we check which authority applies at the first visit and prepare the application to its requirements.
What design and build in Knightsbridge includes.
- Survey, brief and concept design
- Planning, building regulations and consents
- Structural design
- Construction with our own trades
- Kitchens, bathrooms, joinery and interiors
- Decoration, snagging and handover
From site visit to handover.
- 01
Site visit & consultation
We visit, listen and measure. Brief, budget and constraints understood before any advice is given.
- 02
Design & itemised quote
Our architects and engineers draw the scheme, and from that we provide a transparent, itemised quotation for your approval.
- 03
Planning & approvals
Planning applications, building control and party wall matters handled for you.
- 04
Build, managed weekly
Our own trades, sequenced by a site manager. Progress reported every week.
- 05
Handover & aftercare
Joint snagging walk-through, documentation, and a guarantee on our workmanship.
Design & Build in Knightsbridge: your questions.
What does design and build cover in Knightsbridge?
Everything from survey and design through approvals, construction, kitchens, bathrooms and decoration, for homes and commercial premises, under one contract with one point of contact.
Can you take over a project that already has drawings?
Yes. We build from existing drawings, adding the structural and construction detail needed, and take on any approvals that are still outstanding.
Which parts of Knightsbridge do you cover?
All of Knightsbridge and SW7 · SW1X, including Hans Place, Pont Street, Cadogan Square, Thurloe Square, Brompton Road, Egerton Gardens, and the neighbouring districts. We are based in London and our teams work across central, north, north-west, west and south-west London.
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