The housing stock in Barnet
Detached and semi-detached inter-war houses, larger modern houses in Totteridge, and Victorian cottages around Chipping Barnet.
Barnet is a substantial family-house market. Hadley Wood, Totteridge Village and Cockfosters carry some of the largest detached houses in North London, and the borough's planning department is used to well-drawn extensions and basement schemes. Our teams are drawn from neighbouring Enfield and work across the borough on whole-house refurbishments, side and rear extensions and lower-ground reconfiguration.
Most of our Barnet instructions come from owners of hadley wood and cockfosters detached family houses, totteridge village and whetstone houses, high barnet georgian and victorian terraces, and from clients moving between Enfield, Cockfosters, Hadley Wood, Totteridge who already know the type of building they are buying into.
Planning and consent with the London Borough of Barnet
Monken Hadley, Wood Street and Totteridge are conservation areas, with Green Belt policy affecting parts of the northern edge.
Barnet supports extensions and loft conversions on most suburban stock, though replacement dwellings and Green Belt sites need a more careful approach.
Our approach is the same every time: establish the constraints before anything is designed, agree the route to consent with the client, and price the job against the scheme that will actually be approved rather than the one that looks best on a first sketch.
The work we carry out in Barnet
The bulk of our Barnet work is large rear and side extensions, loft conversions, garage conversions, and full property refurbishment.
Whole-house refurbishment. Full strip-back, structural, joinery and finishes for large Hadley Wood and Totteridge family houses.
Side and rear extensions. Substantial family extensions designed and delivered under LB Barnet planning.
Basement and pool. Lower-ground excavation, pool tanking and plant room delivery for large family houses in Hadley Wood and Cockfosters.
Access, neighbours and running a tidy site
Off-street parking and wider plots make these efficient projects to run, with room for storage on site.
Every trade on a Barnet project is directly employed by Ushii. There is no chain of outside firms to chase, no pricing surprises when a trade turns up, and one team responsible for the work from strip-out to snagging.
Realistic programmes in Barnet
Four to seven months for extensions, six to ten for a substantial refurbishment.
Those figures assume consent is in place and decisions are made when they are asked for. The single biggest cause of delay on prime London projects is not construction, it is a client decision waiting on a specification that was never finalised. We front-load those choices into the programme so they are made calmly rather than under pressure.
Talk to us about your Barnet project
If you are planning work on a property in Barnet or nearby in Enfield, Cockfosters, Hadley Wood, Totteridge, the useful first step is a site visit. We will walk the building, tell you what the council is likely to want, and give you an honest view of cost and programme before you commit to drawings.
Get in touch through the contact page and a director will arrange to meet you at the property.