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Chigwell is Essex’s best-known prime address: large detached houses on generous, often gated, plots on the High Road, Manor Road, Chigwell Rise and the lanes around Chigwell Row. We design and build here from first survey to handover.
The houses
The stock ranges from interwar originals to large 1980s, 1990s and 2000s houses that are now dated in plan and specification. Plots are big enough that many owners are choosing replacement dwellings with basements, pools and leisure suites.
Planning in Essex
Applications go to Epping Forest District Council, and most of Chigwell lies in the Metropolitan Green Belt. Extensions must be proportionate to the original dwelling, and replacement houses are judged against the size of what is there now. Chigwell Village is a conservation area, and the Epping Forest Special Area of Conservation brings air-quality and recreation requirements for net new homes.
What it means for you
In Chigwell the first number is the original volume on record. It decides whether you extend, basement, or replace, and we establish it before design begins.
What we do in Chigwell.
Whole-house renovation in Chigwell.
Replanned, rebuilt and finished by one team, with services, insulation and acoustics brought to a new-build standard.
Extensions sized to what Essex will approve.
Kitchen and garden-room extensions, side returns and two-storey additions, designed around the planning position from the start.
A floor you did not have.
Cinema rooms, gyms, pools and wine rooms, engineered for London Clay with waterproofing and drainage designed in.
Bedroom suites under the roof.
Mansard, dormer and hip-to-gable conversions, measured for head height at survey.
Replacement dwellings.
Where the plot is worth more than the house, a new house designed around what planning will allow.
Interior design and bespoke joinery.
Designed alongside the architecture, made in our own workshop, fitted by the same team.
Our services in Chigwell
From our completed projects
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We take a limited number of houses each year. A director reviews every enquiry. Call 020 7731 6841 or email info@nuprojects.co.uk.