Builders in Finchley

Finchley has three town centres: Church End (Finchley Central), East Finchley and North Finchley, which only began to develop after the common was enclosed in the 1820s. The railway reached Finchley in 1867, and much of today's housing followed in the late Victorian, Edwardian and interwar years.

Finchley is more mixed than Barnet's outer suburbs. In the 2021 Census, 47% of households in Church End, Finchley Central, West Finchley and Woodside Park lived in houses, and 51% in flats. Houses here are valuable: median semi-detached prices in those areas were about £935,000 to £1.2 million in the year to March 2026.

Common projects include side-return and rear extensions on Edwardian terraces and semis, L-shaped dormers over back additions, and renovations that rework the ground floor of older houses.

Finchley has several conservation areas, including Finchley Church End, Finchley Garden Village and Moss Hall Crescent, with Hampstead Garden Suburb on its southern edge. Inside them, Barnet expects extensions to preserve or enhance the area's character, and permitted development rights are reduced.

Outside conservation areas, Barnet's 2026 guidance allows extensions to outriggers to run the full length of the side return, while wraparound extensions should not normally extend more than 3 metres beyond the outrigger's two-storey rear wall, or be more than 2 metres high on the boundary. L-shaped dormers over an original outrigger can be built under permitted development where rights exist; otherwise, where they are typical locally, they should cover no more than half the outrigger's depth and be set up 0.5 metres from the eaves.