Extensions in Nuneaton, priced in writing before anything starts.
Two things decide what an extension costs in Nuneaton, and neither of them is the size of the room.
The first is what the brick has to match. This is a town built largely out of its own clay, and older Nuneaton brickwork has a colour and texture that no standard modern stock reproduces off the shelf. On an extension that will be seen from the street, and particularly in the Abbey or town centre conservation areas, matching is a sourcing exercise that starts at the quotation rather than an afterthought at first fix. We would rather spend a morning finding the right brick than a decade looking at the wrong one.
The second is the ground, which is covered properly on our groundworks page but belongs in any extension conversation here. Nuneaton has been quarried, mined and dug for clay, and the difference between plots is sharper than in most towns.
The planning position is otherwise ordinary. On the interwar, post-war and modern housing a single storey rear extension of up to four metres on a detached house or three on a semi can fall within permitted development. In the Abbey conservation area an Article 4 direction has removed rights that apply elsewhere, so check before assuming.
There is also the larger home extension route on the unlisted stock: 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 Nuneaton & Bedworth 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 Nuneaton street to the next.
Where a skip stands on the road it is licensed by Warwickshire County Council, applied for by the skip owner at least five working days ahead, with a £97 fee. On the Victorian streets around Chilvers Coton and Stockingford the carriageway is usually the only option.
Spoil from a Nuneaton dig can be heavier and bulkier than the same volume elsewhere, so we allow for the grab lorry movements the ground actually generates rather than the ones a standard price assumes.
Brick matching has a lead time. Where a reclaimed or specially sourced brick is needed, that is weeks rather than days, and it belongs in the programme from the start rather than holding up a job that was otherwise ready to go.
Part of our wider building work in Nuneaton.
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.
