Builders in Edgware & Stanmore

Edgware (HA8, in Barnet and Harrow) is predominantly 1930s — semi-detached and detached houses with bays and hipped roofs, plus Edgwarebury's larger houses near the green belt. Stanmore (HA7, Harrow) ranges from 1930s semis around the Broadway to substantial detached houses on Stanmore Hill, Old Church Lane and the private roads, with the Stanmore Hill, Little Common and Old Church Lane conservation areas and Canons Park's 1920s–30s garden-suburb houses.

Edgware is split between the London Borough of Barnet (east of the Edgware Road, broadly) and Harrow; Stanmore is Harrow. Outside conservation areas, permitted development applies to houses in the usual way and rear extensions and rear dormers are routine. Harrow's conservation areas on Stanmore Hill, Little Common and Old Church Lane, and Canons Park's Article 4 direction, bring external alterations under planning control. Harrow publishes a residential design guide with expectations for side extensions (set back, subordinate, 1 m to the boundary at first floor) that we design to. Green-belt land at Stanmore Common and Edgwarebury limits extensions to existing buildings.

Rear kitchen extensions and double-storey side extensions on 1930s semis; hip-to-gable lofts; whole-house renovations of large Stanmore houses; and replacement dwellings on the bigger plots of Stanmore Hill and Canons Park.

Wide roads and driveways make logistics straightforward across most of Edgware and Stanmore. The clay is shrinkable and the large gardens have mature trees, so foundation depths are checked early. Party wall notices apply to semis. The Jubilee line at Stanmore and Canons Park keeps client site visits simple.