Home Renovation Stevenage

A whole house renovation joins structural work, services, plastering and finishes into one programme. In Stevenage the housing that comes up for it has a particular history, and parts of the town sit inside conservation areas with their own management plans. We run the work with one point of contact and coordinate building control where the job is notifiable.

For Stevenage, on London-derived ranges a full house refurbishment typically costs £40,000 to £150,000 or more; Hertfordshire work generally runs below that. GS Renovation Ltd, a building contractor based in Potters Bar, does the work in Stevenage: we carry the structure, services and finishes as one contract.

The two rooms that cost the most have their own pages, with prices: kitchen renovation in Stevenage and bathroom renovation in Stevenage. In the 76% of homes here that are houses, moving the kitchen usually means opening up the back of the ground floor, which is structural work.

The town was built in one concentrated push

Stevenage was designated as England's first New Town in 1946, its planning and growth were overseen by a Development Corporation from 1946 until 1980, and the first new homes were built in 1951.

Stevenage Borough Council states that its council housing stock has fallen from 32,000 homes to fewer than 8,000 since Right to Buy began in the 1980s. Homes that changed hands that way can carry covenants and earlier alterations, and both are checked at survey before a renovation is priced.

Housing in Stevenage

Stevenage counts roughly 38,430 homes for Council Tax; 2% are older than 1919, 1% interwar and 96% post-war, with 24% flats and 76% houses. 52% of homes here are terraced; a mid-terrace in Stevenage has no side access, so strip-out goes through the hall.

Seven conservation areas, each with its own management plan

Stevenage has seven conservation areas, each with an adopted Conservation Area Management Plan SPD: Broadwater, Old Town High Street, Orchard Road, Shephall Green, St Nicholas and Rectory Lane, Symonds Green and Town Square.

Those plans set what is expected of external work. The Broadwater plan states that artificial wall claddings and coatings would be considered inappropriate on any elevation, and that walls and stone detailing which have traditionally not been painted should remain undecorated. Render, cladding and external insulation therefore need checking against the relevant plan before they are specified.

Some roofs here resist conversion

The Broadwater Conservation Area Management Plan records that many properties in that area have monopitch and flat roofs, which it describes as difficult to convert.

If the loft forms part of your renovation, the roof shape decides whether that is a conversion, a dormer or a rebuild, and the answer changes both the structural design and the budget. It is worth settling at the outset rather than halfway through the programme.

Council homes are being upgraded under a funded programme

Stevenage Borough Council has upgraded 209 council homes in Wave 1 and 237 in Wave 2 of its Warm Homes Social Housing Fund programme, with a further 379 homes in Wave 3.

That work is the council's own, for its own tenants. On a privately owned house, insulation, glazing and heating upgrades sit inside the renovation programme, and the order matters: fabric first, then services, then finishes.

• Complete property refurbishments and whole-house renovations
• Snagging list agreed and worked through before handover
• Rainwater goods and flashings made good where the works disturb them

VOA Council Tax stock of properties, March 2025, for all 12 statistical areas in Stevenage. Counts rounded by the VOA.

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Trusted Home Renovation in Stevenage

Stevenage is 14.2 miles from our base in Potters Bar and sits inside the area we cover as a matter of course, so a renovation here runs as a normal programme rather than a special trip. Founder Abdelaaziz Saaid has over 30 years of hands on experience, and you deal with one point of contact from survey to handover. Building control applications and inspections are coordinated where the work needs them. The company is fully insured, registered in England under company number 14611254, and rated 4.9 from 31 reviews on MyBuilder. Quotations are free and without obligation.

• Honest updates if a date or a detail has to move
• One itemised quote covering structure, services and finishes
• Room by room handover so you can move back in stages

Reviewed jobs near Stevenage

1 MyBuilder review from Stevenage, with each customer's own job title:

• Kitchen worktops, Stevenage, 24 Jun 2021 (5 out of 5)

Read all 31 on our reviews page.

Checked by Abdelaaziz Saaid, founder and director of GS Renovation Ltd (Companies House no. 14611254). Structural design is by the consulting engineer appointed to your project.