Home Extensions in Herne Hill

Creative Spaces has worked in Herne Hill and surrounding areas for many years now creating more space by adding beautifully built extensions to homes. Creative Spaces is your local builder and has built rear extensions, side return and two storey extensions from Herne Hill to Dulwich and neighbouring Brixton. Herne Hill is considered a great place for families and professional to live with a vibrant charm and urban convenience. The area has good rail connectivity to the city and further afield. Herne Hill has a variety of amenities with independent shops, a series of great cafes and pubs, and lush green parks. The housing stock in Herne Hill is typical of the London stock, Victorian Terraced and Edwardian with a smattering of post-war built houses. Herne Hill is a great place to live but given the housing stock it may be necessary extend your living space due to changing lifestyles or an expanding family. Such needs can be addressed without moving out and creating a beautifully bespoke extension to your Victorian or Edwardian house led by Creative Spaces. The extra living space will not only make functional spaces like the kitchen more comfortable and social but will also add value to your home. A recent nationwide study has shown that extending your home and increasing your living space can add up to 25% to the value of your home.

Herne Hill is South London’s best kept secret delivering the urban amenities and yet offering plenty of calm green space with the large fifty acres Brockwell Park a short walk from the high street and train station, Ruskin Park and surrounding vibrant neighbourhood and Sunray gardens offering a haven of tranquillity. Herne Hill is considered to have a selection of excellent schools in close proximity. While living a comfortable fuss free life, residents love raising their family in the safe streets of Herne Hill. We at Creative Spaces, help our clients to expand their living space to provide more functional space for their families with rear extensions or side return extensions or to help them to simply add value to their Victorian and Edwardian properties. Speak with us today and find out what we can do to help you to expand your living space in Herne Hill.

What kind of extension can I add to my property in Herne Hill?

You can add a rear, side return (in-fill) or wrap around extension to your property in Herne Hill. For a garden flat a rear extension is ideal to extend your living space and even adding a bedroom. A rear extension: extending straight out from the back of the house, can add up to 3m of additional living space to your home. This allows you to create an open and bright kitchen and dining space with direct access to your garden or patio. Large bifolding doors draw in lots of natural light and allow for a panoramic view of your garden or patio. Many of our clients who undertake a rear extension want a more social space for their family to gather in or to entertain friends and family. An in-fill or side return extension in Herne Hill can also add significant space to your kitchen. This allows you to reconfigure the layout of the kitchen and to add a dining space. A series of roof lights or Velux windows along the in-fill roof draws acres of natural light into the space. A wrap-around extension in Herne Hill is a great option, this combines a side return and rear extension “wrapping” around the rear of the building. A wrap around extension allows you to maximise your dining and kitchen space and in most cases allows for the addition of a lounge or seating area. Roof windows and Velux windows in the side return brings plenty of light into the space and bifold doors and large windows to the rear contribute the sense of drawing the outside in and provide views into the garden space and patio. In some cases, we have added an oriel window with bench seating inside. If you are considering an extension in Herne Hill, we can help you to design the perfect space.

Do I need planning permission for my extension in Herne Hill?

You may have permitted development rights for your extension in Herne Hill, in which case you would not need to apply for planning permission. In order to obtain permitted development rights you must comply with the permitted development regulations and in some cases apply for a legal right of development certificate. The planning requirements should be checked with the local council as regulations vary from Borough to Borough. We know the guidelines very well and can advise on planning permission and give you an indication of the process. If this is something you are interested in, give us a call today.

Award winning Home Extension specialists in Herne Hill

Creative Spaces are proud recipients of the Houzz Design and Customer Services awards in 2017, 2018, 2020, 2021,2022, 2024 and again in 2025 were awarded the Best of Houzz, Customer Services. We pride ourselves of offering great quality customer service to all our clients in Herne Hill. We have also had many project featured in magazines including in KBB Magazine in their December 2023 issue.

Case Study

Side return and rear extension in Herne Hill

We designed and built a side return and rear extension for our clients in Herne Hill. Here, our clients wanted lots of light in the rear of the property and direct access to the garden and patio. Our clients also wanted to mix modern conveniences with traditional features which we achieved with a modern layout, large windows and doors and roof lights. The beautifully timeless traditional features of the kitchen really ground this space and also offer modern functionality. This was a lovely property to extend and renovate with a modern extension.

We rendered the outside in white, which contrasted with the traditional brick of the existing Victorian building. The roof on one side was flat whilst the side return was at an angle and consists of three large roof lights flooding the space with light. At the end is a beautiful oriel window with window seat offering a quite space to sit in an otherwise busy workspace. This project took 12 weeks to complete and also involved a full refurbishment of the ground floor. If you want to extend your living and modernise your space and put your own stamp on the décor, then get in contact today and see what Creative Spaces can design and build for you.

 

General Information

We provide the full range of services

If you have the idea we can design it, carry out all the necessary planning applications. We guide you through the party wall process and we manage every aspect of your build from design right through to hand over at the very end. We guarantee our workmanship for a year and can provide an insurance backed 10 year warranty.

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