Barnet is where we're based. From the Georgian houses around Monken Hadley to the Victorian terraces and interwar semis that make up most of the borough, it's the housing stock we know best.
Our yard is in Barnet, on Kitts End Road
Our trading office is at The Grain Barn, Kitts End Farm on Kitts End Road, EN5 — so Barnet isn't a service area we've added to a list, it's where the yard is and where most of our team lives.
The housing is unusually varied for a single area. Monken Hadley and the top of Barnet Hill carry Georgian and early Victorian property, much of it listed and within a long-established conservation area. Below that, High Barnet and New Barnet are dominated by Victorian and Edwardian terraces, and the wider borough by substantial interwar semi-detached housing.
That interwar stock — 1930s semis with original suspended floors, solid or early cavity walls, and services that in many cases have never been fully renewed — is the most common project type we take on in the borough. A full rewire, heating replacement and rear extension on one of these is close to a standard job for us.
Barnet Council is the planning authority for most of the area, and conservation area designation around Monken Hadley, Wood Street and parts of Hadley Green removes permitted development rights that apply elsewhere in the borough. The distinction matters within a few hundred metres.
Many single-storey rear extensions on a house fall within permitted development, but that doesn't apply in the conservation areas around Monken Hadley, Wood Street and Hadley Green, to flats, or where an Article 4 Direction is in force. Barnet Council is the planning authority. We check your specific address and, where permitted development does apply, recommend a Lawful Development Certificate so you have it in writing.
Yes — The Grain Barn, Kitts End Farm, Kitts End Road, Barnet EN5 4RL. It's our trading office and yard, not a mailing address.
Yes. Listed building consent is required for work affecting the character of a listed property, internally as well as externally, and it's separate from planning permission. We handle the applications and work with conservation officers and heritage consultants where needed.
Typically a rear extension with a structural opening into the existing house, new foundations checked against any nearby trees, drainage alterations, and extension of the heating and electrical circuits across the ground floor. A party wall notice to the attached neighbour is almost always required.
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