House Extensions & Loft Conversions in Edgware

LCCL Construction is a design and build company based in Finchley N3, working in Edgware. One team, one contract: architects, structural engineers, project managers and builders coordinated by LCCL take your project from first sketch to handover.

Edgware and Burnt Oak are 1930s suburbia: hipped-roof semis and chalet bungalows that convert brilliantly with hip-to-gable and rear dormer lofts, plus rear kitchen extensions. Guardhouse Way in neighbouring Mill Hill is our nearest completed kitchen extension.

What it costs in Edgware

The final figure depends on postcode, access and site conditions — the instant estimate applies your area. Guide ranges for 2026, design and build inclusive (architecture, structural engineering, planning or LDC, construction, project management and building control). Every project is surveyed and priced individually.

• Velux loft: £32,400 – £50,400 inc. VAT (£27,000 – £42,000 + VAT)
• Rear dormer loft: £56,400 – £80,400 inc. VAT (£47,000 – £67,000 + VAT)
• L-shaped dormer: £58,800 – £98,400 inc. VAT (£49,000 – £82,000 + VAT)
• Hip to gable: £60,000 – £114,000 inc. VAT (£50,000 – £95,000 + VAT)
• Mansard: £76,800 – £148,800 inc. VAT (£64,000 – £124,000 + VAT)
• Rear extension: £42,000 – £90,000 inc. VAT (£35,000 – £75,000 + VAT)
• Side return: £42,000 – £93,600 inc. VAT (£35,000 – £78,000 + VAT)
• Wraparound: £72,000 – £153,600 inc. VAT (£60,000 – £128,000 + VAT)
• Double storey: £90,000 – £198,000 inc. VAT (£75,000 – £165,000 + VAT)

Kitchen on top of the structure, supplied and fitted: +£9,000 – £87,360 inc. VAT (£7,500 – £72,800 + VAT) depending on size and specification. Basements: cellar refit £54,000 – £114,000 inc. VAT (£45,000 – £95,000 + VAT), lowering £114,000 – £216,000 inc. VAT (£95,000 – £180,000 + VAT), new dig £216,000 – £360,000 inc. VAT (£180,000 – £300,000 + VAT)+. New build: £2,200 – £4,500 per sqm (zero-rated for VAT).

Recent LCCL projects near Edgware

Guardhouse Way, Mill Hill NW7 — kitchen extension

A 3 × 10 m single-storey rear extension on a modern semi in Millbrook Park: a large kitchen and dining space with bifold doors and skylights, and a separate utility room so the kitchen stays quieter and gains cupboard space. Scheduled for 12 weeks, finished in 10.

See the project

Also nearby: Sturgess Avenue, Hendon NW4 (wraparound extension, loft conversion, 2021) · Shirehall Lane, Hendon NW4 (hip-to-gable loft, 2021).

Planning in Edgware

Barnet and Harrow both handle Edgware; both are generally permissive under permitted development. Canons Park and Edgwarebury have conservation and Article 4 constraints.

Permitted development in Edgware: what goes ahead without a planning application

Usually permitted development. On the Barnet side, Article 4 directions sit in ten of the borough’s sixteen conservation areas, none of them in the main Edgware streets; on the Harrow side we check the address against Harrow’s own directions first. On the ordinary 1930s streets, lofts and single-storey rear extensions go ahead without a planning application. Flats and maisonettes have no permitted development rights, whatever the street, and inside any conservation area a dormer or roof enlargement needs a planning application even where a single-storey rear extension within the limits does not.

On a house outside those streets, a rear dormer loft (40 m³ on a terrace, 50 m³ on a semi or detached house), a hip-to-gable, a single-storey rear extension of 3 m (4 m on a detached house) and a side-return infill are permitted development, and we apply for a Lawful Development Certificate on every one so the position is confirmed in writing. See our fixed-price permitted development projects — from £32,400 inc. VAT (£27,000 + VAT) for a Velux loft and £42,000 inc. VAT (£35,000 + VAT) for a 3 m rear extension, design and build inclusive, postcode dependent. Not sure whether your project needs a planning application?

Planning check

Conservation areas and Article 4 directions in Edgware

Edgware straddles two councils. On the Barnet side (HA8 east of the A5, Burnt Oak and the Mill Hill borders) the only conservation area is The Watling Estate, the 1920s LCC cottage estate at Burnt Oak, which has no Article 4 direction — so permitted development still applies but the council expects extensions to respect the estate's hipped roofs and materials. West of the A5 the houses fall under Harrow, whose Canons Park and Edgware conservation areas carry their own design guidance. For the 1930s semis and detached houses along Edgwarebury Lane, Broadfields and the Hale, lofts and single-storey rear extensions normally proceed on a Lawful Development Certificate; two-storey side extensions on corner plots are where Barnet applies its half-width and 1 m boundary rules most strictly. A borough-wide Article 4 direction has required planning permission for small HMO conversions in Barnet since May 2016.

Extension size rules Barnet applies (SPD adopted 15 June 2026)

Barnet adopted its Sustainable Design and Development Guidance SPD on 15 June 2026, replacing the 2016 Residential Design Guidance, and Part 4 of it sets the numbers officers use alongside Local Plan policy CDH05. Single-storey rear extensions can run the full width of the house to a maximum depth of 3 m on a terrace, 3.5 m on a semi and 4 m on a detached house (paras 4.37–4.39), no more than half the garden length (4.40), up to 4 m high with a pitched roof but with eaves no higher than 3 m (4.41–4.42). A larger home extension approved under prior approval (6 m on a semi or terrace, 8 m detached) is accepted as a fallback position (4.45). Two-storey rear extensions are limited to half the width of the house and 3 m deep, kept 2 m from an attached neighbour’s boundary or 1 m from a detached one, with a pitched roof matching the original (4.53–4.57). Side extensions should be no more than half the original width; at first floor they need a 1 m gap to the boundary, a 0.5 m set-back from the front wall and a ridge 0.5 m below the main roof (4.69–4.74). Rear dormers should sit at least 0.5 m in from the eaves, ridge and edges of the roof (4.87); L-shaped dormers over an outrigger are limited to half its depth (4.95); front dormers are generally not supported (4.85), while a hip-to-gable that re-balances a pair of semis is (4.84). Basements are single storey with 2.5 m head height, project no further than the rear-extension limits above, take up no more than half the garden length and have front lightwells of no more than 1 m (4.103–4.121). In the Green Belt the original house should not grow by more than 25% by volume (4.163).

Light to neighbours

The SPD does not set a numerical daylight test; it asks officers to weigh loss of light to main windows of neighbours’ habitable rooms (para 4.7) and to reduce depth or height, or set off the boundary, where levels or building lines differ (4.8). In practice we design every Barnet extension to clear a 45-degree line taken from the centre of the nearest neighbouring habitable-room window, on plan and on elevation — the rule of thumb most London officers use — so the scheme does not need a separate daylight and sunlight report.

Fees, timescales and building control

A householder planning application costs £548 from April 2026 (Planning Portal service charge on top); a Lawful Development Certificate for a proposed use is half that. Barnet has eight weeks from validation to decide a householder application; larger-home-extension prior approval is a 42-day route with a £249 fee. Party wall notices run alongside: two months for works to a shared wall, one month for excavations within 3 m or 6 m of a neighbour’s foundations. We use LABC Barnet on every project, so the inspector is the council’s own. Typical inspection points are commencement, foundation trenches, oversite and damp-proof course, drainage before backfill, structural steels and joists before they are covered, insulation and fire-stopping before plastering, then completion. We book each one and send you the completion certificate at handover.

Anderson's advice: talk to your neighbours before the notices go out

Semi-detached hip-to-gable plus rear dormer combinations almost always fall under permitted development, but neighbours often object informally. A conversation over the fence before the party wall notice lands avoids most of it.

What our clients say

“The Lccl construction team built my extension with a quick and clean service, they worked non stop through the winter weather.. I would highly recommend this company!”

— Chris Dunn, Google Reviews

As LABC Building Excellence Award winners in 2024 (Best Residential Extension in London) and 2026 (Best Conversion or Alteration to an Existing Home, Weech Road NW6), every project is delivered by one team of architects, structural engineers, project managers and builders. Workmanship is guaranteed for 12 months from practical completion, with a 10-year LABC structural warranty.

Nearby areas

Edgware is part of our North London guide. Nearby areas: Barnet, Finchley, Enfield, Hendon, Muswell Hill, Highgate, Crouch End, Stoke Newington.

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Just over the borough line, our guide to fixed-price hip-to-gable and dormer lofts in Stanmore HA7 covers the same 1930s hipped-roof semis and the Harrow Council planning points.