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Kitchen Extensions in Brentwood
One bright room for cooking, eating and family life, opening onto the garden. Designed, approved and built by one team.
Kitchens in Brentwood houses
Hutton Mount and Shenfield houses usually have a large plot but a kitchen squeezed into the original footprint, separate from the main living space.
What works here
Wide rear kitchen extensions and orangeries suit Hutton Mount and Shenfield houses, sized to the green belt limit where it applies and to the estate’s rules on Hutton Mount.
Planning a kitchen extension in Brentwood
Brentwood Borough Council limits extensions in the green belt to a proportion of the original house. On Hutton Mount the estate’s covenants also apply, so we check both before the design is fixed. Applications go to Brentwood Borough Council. We handle them for you.
How it works
Visit
We look at the house, the garden and how you use the kitchen now.
Design
Layout, glazing, roof and kitchen designed together, with drawings you can follow.
Permissions
Planning or permitted development, building control and party wall notices handled for you.
Enjoy
One team builds it and fits the kitchen. You enjoy the new room.
Roads we work on
Kitchen extensions that suit Brentwood
Flat-roof wraparound
Hutton Mount and Shenfield houses are large and detached, and many have already been extended once. A new wraparound usually replaces a conservatory and an old utility wing with one properly built room. Hutton Mount has private estate covenants as well as Brentwood Borough Council’s planning rules, so both are checked before design starts.
Pitched-roof wraparound
Arts and Crafts and inter-war houses on Middleton Hall Lane and Shenfield Road suit a pitched roof. Carrying the tiles and the eaves line round onto the extension makes it look like part of the original design.
Questions
Do I need the estate’s approval to extend on Hutton Mount?
Yes. The covenants run alongside planning permission, so we submit to both and design the extension to meet the estate’s requirements from the start.
Do you design the kitchen as well as build the extension?
Yes. Our interior designers plan the kitchen, lighting and finishes alongside the architecture, and our own workshop can make bespoke cabinetry.
Do I need planning permission for a kitchen extension in Brentwood?
Not always. Many single-storey rear extensions are permitted development, up to 3 metres deep on a terraced or semi-detached house and 4 metres on a detached house. Wraparound extensions, listed buildings, flats and houses under an Article 4 direction need planning permission.
Do I need a party wall agreement for a kitchen extension?
Usually, if you build on or beside the boundary or dig foundations within three metres of the neighbouring house. We serve the notices for you.
From our completed projects
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We take a limited number of houses each year. A director reviews every enquiry.