Extensions in Burbage, priced in writing before anything starts.
Where you are in Burbage decides what an extension is, and the dividing line is whether your house has a front garden.
On the estate housing out towards Sketchley and the common, this is straightforward work. A single storey rear extension of up to four metres on a detached house or three on a semi can fall within permitted development, there is side access, and a skip stands on the drive. These are the most predictable extensions we price in the village.
In the conservation area core the position is different in a specific way. Because the designation is protecting a street scene made of continuous frontage onto the footpath, anything visible from the street is examined against that. A rear extension behind the building line is a far easier proposition than anything touching the frontage, and it is generally where the space is anyway. A side extension loses its permitted development rights inside a conservation area entirely, and on a terrace built against its neighbours there is usually nowhere to put one.
The real constraint on a core extension is not planning, though. It is getting the materials to the back of a house with no front working space and no side access, which is dealt with on our access note below and priced honestly rather than absorbed.
On the unlisted later stock there is also the larger home extension route: up to eight metres on a detached house or six on any other, by prior approval, with neighbours notified and an answer in about six weeks. Our extensions work is described in more detail there.
Four things we commit to on every job, rather than four things we say about ourselves.
Permitted development is not an exemption from Building Regulations. We arrange the Hinckley & Bosworth Borough Council inspections, meet the inspector on site at each stage and see the work through to sign off. We do not make the application itself, and we will tell you what is needed and when.
Free, and you get it before you commit to us. Party walls and skip licences are raised at quotation stage, not three weeks into the dig.
The same people do the groundworks, the brickwork and the fit out. Nobody hands your job to a subcontractor you have never met.
You get a straight answer rather than a padded price. It costs us a job occasionally and saves you a great deal more.
Process, specification and what moves the price are set out on our extensions page.
The answers that genuinely differ from one Burbage street to the next.
In the village core there is no drive, no verge and no front garden, so a skip stands on the carriageway under a Leicestershire County Council licence applied for by the skip company. Materials come through the house and spoil goes out the same way. It is workable and we do it regularly, and it is a genuinely different price from the same extension on an estate plot.
We agree the materials route and the skip position before the first delivery is booked, because on a street where the pavement is the only working space, discovering the problem with a lorry outside helps nobody.
Part of our wider building work in Burbage.
Send photographs and a rough brief, or call and talk it through. We will tell you if a job is not right for us.
Southfield Construction (Rugby) Ltd, registered in England and Wales, company 14209138.
