Kitchen Renovation Luton

A kitchen refit turns structural the moment the wall between the kitchen and the next room comes into it. We handle both sides, the beam and the building control side as well as the fit out that follows. If you rent from Luton Borough Council, there is a consent step before any of it.

For Luton, on London-derived ranges a kitchen renovation typically costs £18,000 to £60,000 or more from design to fitting; Bedfordshire work generally runs below that. GS Renovation Ltd, a building contractor based in Potters Bar, does the work in Luton: we carry the strip-out, services and fit as one contract, with the electrics certified by a registered electrician.

How the job runs

1. Free design visit at your Luton home and an itemised quote.
2. Strip-out and any structural work, first-fix plumbing and electrics, plastering.
3. Units fitted and levelled; stone worktops templated and cut off site.
4. Worktops, appliances, tiling and second fix. Electrics certified under Part P by a registered electrician, or notified to building control.

Council tenants need written permission first

Luton Borough Council requires a council tenant to get written permission before improvement works begin. That applies to a kitchen replacement as much as to anything else, and asking afterwards is not the same thing.

Get it in writing early, because it sets what you are allowed to change and what you are not. We can price the work either way, but we will not start on a council property until that permission is in place.

Housing in Luton

By the valuation list's count, Luton holds about 85,500 homes, 72% houses and 28% flats; by age, 13% were built before 1919, 20% between the wars and 67% since 1945. Terraced houses make up 30% of homes here, and a mid-terrace kitchen in Luton has to vent out the front or back, not the side.

What the compensation scheme does not pay for

It does not pay professional fees. Luton Borough Council states that no compensation is payable to a council tenant for professional fees such as architects, or for the cost of planning permission or building regulations consent. Compensation for any one qualifying improvement is capped at £3,000.

That matters if the kitchen involves moving a load bearing wall, because the engineer's fee and the building control charge sit outside the scheme. Budget for them separately rather than expecting them back. For owner occupiers none of the tenant rules apply, and the house sets the job instead. Two thirds of Luton homes were built after 1945, so the kitchen often sits at the back on a solid floor, and moving the sink means checking the waste fall to the existing drain before the layout is fixed. Knocking through to the dining room is a steel beam job with the council's four inspection stages, and the cooker hood has to extract to outside under Part F.

• Bespoke kitchen design and layout planning
• Quartz, granite and marble worktops templated and fitted
• Old kitchen strip-out, disposal and making good

VOA Council Tax stock of properties, March 2025, for all 22 statistical areas in Luton. Counts rounded by the VOA.

If this is your first project in Luton, these are worth a look: load-bearing wall removal in Luton, kitchen renovation in Dunstable, kitchen fitting in London, when a kitchen needs a building contractor, kitchen renovation across London and Utility Room Ideas & Cost.

Why Luton Homeowners Choose GS Renovation

Kitchens go wrong at the joins: the wall that turned out to be load bearing, the drainage run that had to move, the appliance that arrived after the units were fixed. We sequence the structural work, the first fix and the fit out as one job with one point of contact, so no trade is left waiting on another. Where the property is a Luton council home, we work to the written permission the council has given. Quotations are free and no obligation.

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.