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New Builds in Southwark
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Extension + loft, North Finchley
Rear extension and loft conversion in London stock brick with French doors, North FinchleyNew Builds for Southwark homes
From foundations to the final installation of a kitchen or bathroom, we deliver complete new-build homes and infill plots across London. New build is where a main contractor earns its fee: one contract, one programme, one point of accountability across groundworks, structure, envelope, services and fit-out.
Georgian and Victorian terraces in Camberwell and Peckham, substantial detached housing in Dulwich (much of it on the Dulwich Estate with its own scheme of management), and warehouse conversions in Bermondsey.
That housing mix matters more than it sounds. It determines whether your new builds is a straightforward job or a structural one — how the loads transfer, whether a Party Wall Award is likely, and what the council will accept on the elevation. We survey before we price, so the number you get reflects your actual house rather than an average one.
Included as standard
- Site set-up, hoarding, welfare and site management
- Groundworks, foundations and below-ground drainage
- Superstructure: masonry, timber frame or steel
- Roofing, envelope and weathertight shell
- Full mechanical and electrical installation
- Insulation and airtightness to current Building Regulations
- Internal fit-out, kitchens, bathrooms and joinery
- External works, driveways and landscaping
- Building control, warranty liaison and handover pack
- Timescale
- 6–14 months
- Planning authority
- London Borough of Southwark
- Postcodes
- SE1, SE5, SE15, SE16
- Housing stock
- Mixed housing stock
What Southwark housing means for the structure
New build here ranges from single infill plots to small back-land schemes. Whatever the scale, the sequence is the same: full planning permission, then discharging pre-commencement conditions, then CIL liability notices, then building control and a structural warranty running alongside the build.
Planning and approvals for a new build
A new dwelling always needs full planning permission — there is no permitted development route to a new house on a new plot. Expect a determination period of around eight weeks for a minor application, longer if it goes to committee.
Conditions attached to the permission frequently require details to be submitted and approved before work starts: materials, drainage strategy, construction management, and landscaping are the common ones. Discharging them is a separate application and needs building into the programme.
The Community Infrastructure Levy applies to most new dwellings in London, and both a borough charge and the Mayoral CIL may be payable. The liability notice must be served and commencement notified before work begins, or surcharges follow automatically.
A new home also needs a structural warranty for it to be mortgageable, and building control sign-off at completion. Both run alongside the build rather than after it.
Those are the national rules. In Southwark they are administered by London Borough of Southwark, and they can be tightened locally by a conservation area or an Article 4 direction covering your street. We confirm the position for your address in writing before you commit to anything.
Working in Southwark
We are based in Chadwell Heath, RM6. Southwark is a regular run for us, and we resource jobs there properly rather than stretching a crew across the city. Scaffolding licences, skip permits and highway licences are all applied for in our name as part of the contract, because they have to be — they are the contractor's responsibility, not yours.
Access shapes the programme in London more than anywhere else. Narrow streets, controlled parking and shared alleys all affect how materials get in and waste gets out, and we plan for it at survey stage rather than discovering it in week two. Where a job needs a wait-and-load skip or a grab lorry instead of a standing skip, we say so in the quote.
You get a named project manager for the duration — Jagpreet (Sandeep) or Simarjit (Sonu) depending on where the job sits — and you pay in arrears of work completed rather than handing over a deposit and hoping.
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Answers
New Builds in Southwark — common questions
Do I need planning permission for new builds in Southwark?
It depends on the property type and what is proposed. Many single-storey rear extensions and loft conversions fall under permitted development, but those rights do not apply to flats and are restricted in conservation areas or where an Article 4 direction applies. We check the planning position for your specific address before quoting, and tell you in writing which route applies.
How do you price the work?
From a site survey, written up as a fixed and itemised scope before any deposit is discussed. If something genuinely unforeseen appears once work is opened up, it is priced and agreed in writing before we continue — never added to the final invoice after the fact.
When do I pay?
In arrears of work completed. You pay for work that has been done and inspected, not for work that has been promised. This has been how the company operates since 2008.
Which postcodes in Southwark do you cover?
We work across the whole borough, including SE1, SE5, SE15, SE16, SE17, SE21 and the surrounding districts.
Who is the planning authority for Southwark?
London Borough of Southwark is the local planning authority and also runs building control for the borough. Planning applications, prior approval submissions and building control applications for your property all go to them, and we handle those submissions as part of the contract.
Do you handle Party Wall notices?
Yes, where the work requires them. Under the Party Wall etc. Act 1996, notifiable work on a shared wall needs 2 months written notice to the adjoining owner, while excavation near a neighbouring structure and building at the line of junction need 1 month. We serve the notices and manage the award process as part of the job.
Will I get certificates at the end?
Yes. Electrical work is tested and certificated under Part P, and building control issues a completion certificate where an application was required. You receive the handover pack — it is what a buyer's solicitor will ask for when you eventually sell.
How long will it take?
It depends entirely on scope, and we give a programme with the written quote rather than a guess on the phone. What we will not do is start a job we cannot resource, which is the usual reason a build stalls halfway through.
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