The housing stock in Holland Park
Detached and semi-detached villas, large stucco terraces and garden flats with direct garden access.
Holland Park is a village inside prime London. Family houses on Addison Road, garden-square terraces on Norland Square, laterals on Holland Park Avenue and Kensington Park Gardens. The clients are private, the programmes are honest, and the standard of finish is unforgiving. We build here often and take referrals from architects working on the same streets.
Most of our Holland Park instructions come from owners of addison road detached houses, norland conservation area terraces, holland park avenue mansion flats, and from clients moving between Notting Hill, Kensington, Shepherd's Bush, Ladbroke Grove who already know the type of building they are buying into.
Planning and consent with the Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea
The Holland Park and Norland conservation areas cover the villas, the crescents and the mature garden settings around them.
Tree protection orders are common, and any excavation near mature trees needs an arboricultural method statement.
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 Holland Park
The bulk of our Holland Park work is basement and garden room construction, whole-house refurbishment, roof and rooflight work, and garden landscaping to match.
Family house refurbishment. Whole-house refurbishment of Holland Park family houses, coordinated around occupied family life or delivered vacant.
Conservation area works. Refurbishment and extension work in the Norland conservation area, cleared through RBKC without repeated queries.
Rear extension. Kitchen extensions, glazed lanterns and garden rooms designed for period Holland Park houses.
Access, neighbours and running a tidy site
Wide streets help, but garden access for plant usually means craning over or hand-digging. We price that honestly at the start.
Every trade on a Holland Park 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 Holland Park
Ten to sixteen months for a villa refurbishment with a basement.
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 Holland Park project
If you are planning work on a property in Holland Park or nearby in Notting Hill, Kensington, Shepherd's Bush, Ladbroke Grove, 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.