Office fit-out in Hammersmith W6

What you are fitting out in Hammersmith

Large multi-tenant office buildings along the flyover, King Street and Hammersmith Road, most refurbished several times since they were built. Behind them, smaller converted premises on the side streets with none of the estate infrastructure.

Media, technology and corporate regional headquarters. That usually means a Cat B brief weighted towards meeting rooms, acoustic separation and a reception that has to carry a brand, rather than towards raw desk count.

The constraint that sets the programme

The Broadway is one of West London's busiest interchanges and there is effectively no kerbside to work from. In the managed buildings on Hammersmith Road, deliveries and waste both run through goods-lift bookings and loading-bay slots controlled by the estate team — so the sequence of a fit-out here is written around lift windows, not around trades. We price that in rather than discovering it in week two.

Who decides, and what needs consent

Hammersmith & Fulham has 48 conservation areas and a borough-wide Article 4 direction in force since 26 April 2018 removing permitted development for basements. Most internal fit-out is not a planning matter, but signage, plant, external alterations and any change of use are — and the licence to alter from your landlord is a separate consent that runs on its own clock.

A fit-out normally answers to three separate things: your landlord’s licence to alter, building regulations where services or fire strategy change, and planning only where the outside of the building or its use changes. They run on different clocks and the licence is the one most often discovered late.

What we are usually asked for in Hammersmith

• Cat B fit-out of a multi-tenant floor, phased around occupation
• Reception counters and tea-point runs from our own joinery workshop
• Seamless resin floors laid over the existing screed with nothing sent to a skip
• Acoustic separation between meeting rooms and open plan
• End-of-lease reinstatement back to the Cat A specification in the lease

Partitions, joinery and glazing come from our own companies rather than a chain of subcontractors, which is why the timing and the warranty stay in one place. The low-waste method — refinishing over what is already there — is what makes most of this workable in an occupied building.

Can an office fit-out in Hammersmith be done without closing the floor?

Usually yes, and in the managed buildings it is often the only way it gets approved. The programme is built around the estate team's goods-lift bookings and loading-bay slots, with the noisy work placed out of hours and the floor handed back in sections. What makes it realistic is removing the demolition: refinishing an existing floor rather than breaking it out cuts the phase that cannot be done around people.

A floor area cannot price a fit-out.

We walk the floor, look at what is already there and what can be kept, and tell you what the access regime does to the programme. Free, and it is the only honest way to put a number on Hammersmith space.

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