Structural Alterations in Fulham, SW6
Opening up the ground floor, removing load-bearing walls and forming new openings in Fulham houses, with our own structural engineers and building control approval.
Covered under one contract
- Architectural and structural design
- Planning or lawful development certificate
- Foundations, walls, roof and steels
- Glazing, rooflights and doors
- Kitchen designed and fitted
- Building control and party wall handled
Structural Alterations in Fulham.
Most of the houses in Fulham were planned as a series of small rooms. Opening them up, whether that is knocking two reception rooms together, taking out the wall between the kitchen and dining room, or forming a wide opening onto the garden, is structural work, and it needs to be designed rather than improvised.
Our engineers design the steel beams, padstones and any temporary works, and our team installs them. The beam is usually hidden within the ceiling so the finished room shows no trace of the wall that was there. Building control inspects the work, and where the wall is shared with a neighbour we serve the party wall notices.
Structural alterations are often the first stage of a wider refurbishment, and we plan them as such, so the services, floor levels and finishes that follow are all designed together.
- Area
- Fulham, SW6
- Council
- London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham
- Housing
- Late Victorian terraces including the Lion houses of the Peterborough estate, larger houses around Parsons Green and Hurlingham, riverside apartments
- Transport
- Parsons Green, Fulham Broadway, Putney Bridge
- Rear or side return, on site
- 10 to 16 weeks
- Design and approvals
- 8 to 14 weeks before start
- Glazing lead time
- 6 to 10 weeks, ordered early
- Consent
- Permitted development or householder application
- Party wall
- Notices served by us
Fulham: the houses and the planning rules.
Fulham is late Victorian family housing on a huge scale: long streets of three-storey terraces built in the 1880s and 1890s, the distinctive Peterborough estate with its stone lions, the larger houses around Parsons Green and the Hurlingham Club, and the new riverside developments along the Thames. Families move here for the houses and then extend them.
Side-return and rear extensions, loft conversions with rear dormers, and basements are the standard sequence for a Fulham terrace, and a full refurbishment often does all three at once. The borough's basement policy and conservation area guidance are well established and we design to them from the outset.
The Parsons Green, Hurlingham, Peterborough Estate, Moore Park and Sands End conservation areas cover most of the residential streets.
London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham
The borough decides applications. Article 4 directions in most conservation areas mean rear extensions and roof works need a householder application.
Basements
Basements are limited to a single storey and to a proportion of the garden, with a construction method statement and neighbour notification.
Peterborough estate
The Lion houses have specific guidance on roofs, front elevations and rear extensions to keep the estate's uniformity.
Approvals for structural alterations in Fulham.
Structural work needs building regulations approval and an engineer's calculations; where the wall is shared with a neighbour, party wall notices are required, and listed buildings need listed building consent for internal alterations.
The borough decides applications. Article 4 directions in most conservation areas mean rear extensions and roof works need a householder application.
What structural alterations in Fulham includes.
- Architectural and structural design
- Planning or lawful development certificate
- Foundations, walls, roof and steels
- Glazing, rooflights and doors
- Kitchen designed and fitted
- Building control and party wall handled
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.
Structural Alterations in Fulham: your questions.
Can you remove a load-bearing wall in a Fulham house?
Yes. Our structural engineer designs the steel beam and padstones, building control inspects the work, and if the wall is a party wall we serve the notices. The beam can usually be concealed within the ceiling depth.
Do structural alterations need planning permission?
Internal structural work does not need planning permission, but it always needs building regulations approval. Listed buildings need listed building consent for internal alterations.
Which parts of Fulham do you cover?
All of Fulham and SW6, including Parsons Green Lane, Peterborough Road, Hurlingham Road, New King's Road, Studdridge Street, Broomhouse Road, 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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