Extensions in Lutterworth, priced in writing before anything starts.
Lutterworth is a good town for rear extensions and a difficult one for getting the materials to the back of the house. Both facts come from the same place: the burgage plots in the older part of town give you depth to build into that the street frontage never suggests, and they give you no side access to reach it with.
On a detached house, a single storey rear extension of up to four metres can fall within permitted development, and three metres on a semi or a terrace. Inside the conservation area that changes, and a side extension loses its permitted development rights entirely. We establish which set of rules applies to your house before anything is designed, because the answer decides whether you are looking at a six week lead time or a five month one.
Where there is no entry, the work is sequenced differently. Foundations come out through the house, so we protect the route properly rather than laying a dust sheet and hoping. Concrete goes in by pump or by barrow depending on what the frontage will take. None of this is unusual for us and none of it is a reason not to build, but it is a reason to get the quotation from somebody who has walked the plot.
Two storey work needs planning permission far more often than people expect, and on the narrow older plots it also needs a careful look at what it does to the neighbour’s light. We will tell you at the quotation stage if we think an application is going to struggle.
Our extensions work is described in more detail there, including how the Building Control inspections fit around the build and what the stages actually look like.
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 Harborough District 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 Lutterworth street to the next.
If your house is one of the long narrow plots off the main street, ask us about a materials route before you ask about a price. It is the single thing that most changes what an extension costs in this town.
Where a skip has to stand on the road, the licence comes from Leicestershire County Council rather than from Harborough, and the skip company applies for it rather than you. Where there is a driveway, none of that applies and the job starts sooner. On the estates north and east of Lutterworth there is usually room to stand a skip and a mixer on your own ground, which is one of the reasons an extension there runs faster than the same extension in the middle of town.
Part of our wider building work in Lutterworth.
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.
