Planning and building regulation drawings in Hammersmith (W6)

Toward Brook Green the houses become larger, with stucco frontages and villas around the green and Edwardian red-brick mansion blocks on the main approaches. Yeldham Road, Winslow Road, Sussex Place and Playfair Street are among the streets of the Brook Green area. Full-width rear extensions, side returns and loft conversions are all realistic on bigger houses, and the mansion blocks bring internal reconfigurations, flat conversions and the access and party-wall questions that go with shared buildings.

Hammersmith & Fulham controls design closely. The Bradmore conservation area covers the Brackenbury Village grid, Brook Green has its own, and Hammersmith Grove and Hammersmith Broadway add more. Any scheme involving a basement also meets the council's basement policy and the need for an impact assessment. Because the terraces are so closely spaced, roof, dormer and party-wall relationships with the neighbours are tightly assessed. We confirm which controls apply to your address, and what a case officer is likely to look for, before we start drawing.

Planning in Hammersmith: what to know before you apply

Hammersmith & Fulham reads householder drawings against the conservation area that covers the property. Bradmore, Brook Green and Hammersmith Grove each shape expectations for roofs, frontages and materials, and mature trees around the green can bring tree constraints to works at the rear. A basement under a house falls under the borough's basement policy and needs a basement impact assessment alongside the plans. Article 4 directions in parts of the borough remove permitted development for HMO conversions and, within conservation areas, for some frontage and basement works. We check the designation and direction maps for your address and tell you which of them touch the scheme.

Applications are decided by London Borough of Hammersmith & Fulham — its planning pages.