GS Renovation carries out whole house renovations in Cheshunt, taking a property from strip out through structural work, first fix and finishes. One point of contact runs the programme, the trades and the building control inspections. Our founder brings more than 30 years of hands-on experience, and the company is fully insured and registered in England.
The housing stock of a town of 43,680
Cheshunt is a town in its own right, and its housing stock reflects that. The Cheshunt built-up area had a population of 43,680 at the 2021 census, and ONS maps it as a built-up area separate from the adjoining Waltham Cross and Goff's Oak built-up areas. Only 15.1 per cent of its council tax properties were built before 1940, and 3.5 per cent before 1900.
Those figures set expectations, they do not replace a survey. A house of any age here may have had earlier alterations that nobody recorded, so we open up and inspect before the programme and the price are fixed. Where the survey finds structural work, the engineer is appointed at that point rather than halfway through the job.
How Cheshunt came to be built the way it is
Cheshunt grew as a railway suburb and as a nursery town. Cheshunt railway station opened in 1846, which is the point from which commuter housing began to spread through the parish. The first glasshouses in the area were built in 1806, and by 1967 the Cheshunt area held a quarter of the country's glasshouses.
The older fabric has thinned out around that growth. Cheshunt Great House, a 15th century manor house, was destroyed by fire in 1965, and only the listed remains survive at list entry 1348371. At Theobalds, the grounds were given for public use in 1919, and Cedars Park opened to the public in 1921. What is left to renovate in Cheshunt is a 20th century town.
Conservation areas and the plan you are working under
Cheshunt householders are lightly caught by conservation area controls. The Borough of Broxbourne has six conservation areas in total: Churchgate, Broxbourne, Wormley, New River, Wentworth Cottages and Hoddesdon town centre. Churchgate is the only one that falls inside the Cheshunt built-up area, so the other five place no controls on Cheshunt homes.
Churchgate itself has a gap in its paperwork. The national conservation area dataset records no conservation area appraisal document for it, unlike Hoddesdon town centre, which has a published appraisal. The plan in force is the Broxbourne Local Plan 2018 to 2033, adopted on 23 June 2020, and the national register records a housing requirement of 7,718 homes under it.
Post-war houses and flues with no job left
A third of the town's houses come from two post-war decades. Across the six Cheshunt middle layer super output areas, 32.3 per cent of council tax properties date from 1945 to 1964. A renovation of a house from that band deals with the whole envelope at once, wiring, heating, insulation, windows and layout, rather than one room at a time.
Fireplaces in those houses are decoration now. At the 2021 census, 78.4 per cent of Cheshunt households had mains gas as their only form of central heating, which leaves original fireplace flues with no working purpose. A full renovation is the moment to decide whether a breast comes out, because the making good and the decoration are already in the programme.
- Loft, floor and wall insulation upgrades
- Sash window overhaul, draught proofing and secondary glazing
- Structural alterations and load-bearing wall removal
- Snagging list agreed and worked through before handover
- Project management from first survey to final handover
Why Cheshunt Homeowners Choose GS Renovation
Cheshunt is 6.6 miles from our base in Potters Bar, well inside the area we cover, so arranging a site visit is straightforward. A whole house renovation needs one person holding the programme together, and that is what you get: one point of contact for the trades, the structural engineer and the building control inspections. GS Renovation Ltd is fully insured, registered in England, company number 14611254, and rated 4.9 from 31 reviews on MyBuilder.
- Neighbours given notice before the noisy stages
- Site left safe and secure at the end of every day
- A snagging list agreed and worked through before handover
- Protected routes through the house so you can keep living in it
- Itemised pricing, so you can see what every stage costs
- A whole-house programme sequenced so no trade doubles back