Extensions, renovations, roofing and groundworks across Rugby and the surrounding area.
Southfield Construction is a Rugby building firm. Most of our work sits within a few miles of the town centre: extensions, renovations, roofing and groundworks on the houses around Rugby and the villages that surround it. If you are looking for builders in Rugby, we are based in the town rather than covering it from elsewhere, which is why a site visit here does not need booking a week ahead.
We look after the Building Regulations side of the work, arranging the inspections and seeing the job through to sign off, and you get a price in writing before anything starts.
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 Rugby 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.
These are the trades we carry out ourselves. Every one leads to a page describing that work in detail.
Footings, brickwork, roof and full fit out
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Patios, paving, decking, fencing and turf
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Rugby is a mixed town to build in, and the age of the house usually decides how a job runs.
The streets closest to the town centre are largely Victorian and Edwardian terraces. Access is the first thing we look at on those, because everything in and out tends to go through the house or down a shared entry. That affects how we sequence the work and where a skip can stand.
Out towards Bilton, Hillmorton and Overslade there is a lot of interwar and post-war semi-detached housing. These are the most common candidates for a rear or side extension, and generally the most straightforward, because there is usually side access and a decent sized garden to work in.
Newer parts of the town such as Cawston, Brownsover and Houlton are a different job again: modern construction, and often estate management or covenant conditions to check before anything is designed.
Those are the places we work most often, not the limit of where we go. We cover the town and the surrounding Warwickshire villages, so if you are not sure whether we reach you, just ask.
The answers that genuinely differ from one Rugby street to the next.
Rugby Borough Council is the local planning authority for the town and the surrounding villages, and planning applications and building control both go through the council. You can use an approved inspector for building control instead if you prefer.
Many single storey rear extensions on the semi-detached housing around the town fall within permitted development, which means no planning application is needed. Permitted development is not an exemption from Building Regulations though, and a full plans application is still required. We do not make that application, but we arrange and meet the inspections that follow it and we see the work through to sign off.
Three things change the answer in Rugby.
The borough has 19, and several cover streets we regularly work in: Rugby Town Centre, Rugby School, Bilton Road, the Clifton Road, Hillmorton Road and Whitehall Road area, Old Brownsover, Bilton, Hillmorton Locks, Dunchurch and Clifton-upon-Dunsmore. In a conservation area the council has extra control over what can be done without permission, so we check the designation before drawing anything.
Rugby has one, in force since 23 February 2025, covering the Benn, Coton and Boughton, Eastlands, New Bilton, and Newbold and Brownsover wards. It is worth being clear about what it does, because it is often misread: it requires planning permission to convert a house into a small HMO. It does not restrict ordinary householder extensions. If you are extending your own home in one of those wards, this one does not apply to you.
If the work comes close to or against a shared boundary you are likely to need a party wall award. We raise that at quotation stage, not three weeks into the dig.
A point that catches people out: a skip standing on the public road in Rugby is not licensed by the borough council. Warwickshire County Council is the highway authority, so the licence comes from them. The application has to be made by the skip company rather than by you or by us, and it needs to be in at least five working days before the skip is due to arrive. A fee applies, and a retrospective application costs more than getting it right first time.
No licence is needed at all, which is usually the cheaper and quicker route on the semi-detached housing out towards Bilton and Hillmorton where there is off street parking.
There is often nowhere to put a skip except the road, and frequently no off street parking for a van either. We plan deliveries and muck away around that rather than discovering it on day one.
We also work across Lutterworth, Daventry, and Coventry.
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.
