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Kitchen Extensions in Woodford
One bright room for cooking, eating and family life, opening onto the garden. Designed, approved and built by one team.
Kitchens in Woodford houses
Woodford’s Edwardian houses often have a kitchen in the back addition, a side return beside it and a dining room between the two with very little light.
What works here
On Edwardian semis the best result is usually a rear extension combined with a side infill. It keeps the original rooms at the front and opens the back of the house to the garden, with glazing and materials chosen to suit the conservation area.
Planning a kitchen extension in Woodford
In Monkhams, Woodford Green and Woodford Broadway, side extensions always need planning permission and rear extensions are judged on materials and scale. Outside them, a rear extension can often go ahead as permitted development. Applications go to the London Borough of Redbridge. 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 Woodford
Pitched side return and rear extension
Woodford’s Edwardian houses usually have a rear wing with a narrow yard beside it. Filling the yard and extending a little beyond the wing, under a pitched roof with a glazed gable, gives one room the full width of the house. In the Monkhams and Woodford Green conservation areas, Redbridge expects brick, slate and timber or steel-framed glazing rather than render.
Full-width flat-roof rear extension
Detached and double-fronted houses around Woodford Wells have the width for a simple flat-roofed rear extension. Keeping it low and largely glazed leaves the original brickwork and sash windows above as the main event.
Questions
What materials suit a kitchen extension in a Woodford conservation area?
Usually brick to match the house, or a lighter glazed structure that stays clearly secondary to the original. Large flat areas of render or cladding are less likely to be approved.
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 Woodford?
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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