# Home renovations in Ealing

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> Renovating Victorian, Edwardian and interwar houses in Ealing and Hanwell: layouts, services, period features and conservation area considerations.

We renovate Victorian, Edwardian and interwar houses across Ealing and Hanwell, updating layouts, services and finishes while keeping the period features that give these houses their character.

### Period houses in Ealing

Ealing's high proportion of terraced houses means many renovations start with a long, narrow ground floor: opening the rear reception room into the kitchen, rethinking the side return, and moving the bathroom out of the back addition. Elsewhere, the usual work is rewiring, new heating, repairing sash windows and floors, and improving insulation in the loft and under suspended timber floors.

### Conservation areas

Ealing has a large number of conservation areas, including six in Hanwell. Inside them, external changes such as replacement windows, roofs and front boundaries can need permission, especially where Article 4 directions apply, and the council's appraisals and management plans describe what is valued in each area. Ealing's SPD 4 also expects windows in extensions to reflect the detail, proportion, alignment and materials of the original house.

### Approvals

Structural changes need Building Regulations approval, and work on party walls, including cutting in steel beams, needs notice under the Party Wall etc. Act 1996.

### Front gardens and porches

Front walls up to 1 metre high generally don't need planning permission, but Article 4 directions restrict them in some parts of the borough. A new porch needs permission if it would have a ground area of more than 3 square metres, be higher than 3 metres, or be less than 2 metres from a boundary with a road or footpath.

Ealing renovations: common questions

Do I need permission to renovate inside a period house in Ealing?

Internal work usually needs Building Regulations approval rather than planning permission, unless the house is listed, in which case listed building consent is needed for internal alterations too.

Can I replace sash windows with uPVC in an Ealing conservation area?

Check first. Where Article 4 directions apply, window replacements need permission, and the council expects designs that reflect the original windows' detail and proportions.