Builders
in Surbiton

In the Claremont Road area, building began in 1838, when Thomas Pooley started work after the railway arrived. The area has stuccoed Regency-style semi-detached villas and terraces, and red brick houses of about 1890 on Claremont Gardens. Around St Mark's there is Edwardian housing near Cranes Drive and Guildford Avenue, and Ferguson Avenue and Hill Crescent had been laid out by the 1930s. Berrylands was developed quickly in the 1930s and 1940s at relatively low densities, mostly semi-detached with many detached houses, and Tolworth consists mainly of low-density 1930s semis. Surbiton shares its KT5 and KT6 postcodes with Berrylands and Tolworth.

The Claremont Road area is a conservation area, so extensions and alterations to its villas and terraces are designed with the council's Conservation Area General Guidance in mind. For the 1930s semis of Tolworth and Berrylands, the usual options are a single-storey rear extension, a loft conversion, hip-to-gable where the roof is hipped, and a garage conversion where there is a garage. Many Berrylands houses are detached, which can leave room for a side extension as well. Loft conversions of this standard kind usually take 6 to 10 weeks to build, and converting a single garage takes 3 to 5 weeks on site.

For planning, Surbiton falls under the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames. Its Surbiton advisory committee covers eleven conservation areas, among them Claremont Road, Surbiton Hill Park, Oakhill, Victoria Avenue, St Andrew's Square and Surbiton Town Centre. No Article 4 direction here removes householder permitted development rights; the only Surbiton direction removes rights to put up fencing, gates and other enclosures at the Seething Wells Filter Beds nature site. Core Strategy Policy S1 asks development near the Thames, the Hogsmill and Surbiton Stream / Tolworth Brook to include flood mitigation and sustainable drainage, and Metropolitan Open Land follows the Hogsmill through to Tolworth and Chessington. Before any design, we confirm whether your project can use Permitted Development, needs prior approval or needs a planning application.

From the first drawings to the finished project, the work stays with one design-and-build team, and we deal with the planning application and building regulations for you. Everything starts with a free Cost Proposal that itemises the work. Weekly invoices cover only finished work that you have signed off, and they follow a 10% deposit that falls three weeks ahead of the start date.