Kitchen Renovation Soho

GS Renovation designs and fits kitchens across Soho and the W1 postcode, from compact flat kitchens to open-plan kitchen-diners in larger period flats. We handle the cabinetry, worktops, plumbing, electrics and any structural knock-through as a single project, so the whole room is finished by one team.

In Soho, a kitchen renovation typically costs £18,000 to £60,000 or more from design to fitting (indicative London ranges, MyBuilder and Checkatrade, 2026). GS Renovation Ltd, a building contractor based in Potters Bar, does the work in Soho: 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 Soho 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. Typically 3 to 5 weeks on site.

Open-plan kitchen-diners in Soho flats

In a Soho flat the signature kitchen project opens the kitchen into the living room to make one bright, sociable kitchen-diner. Where that dividing wall is load-bearing, we install a steel beam sized by a structural engineer and signed off by building control. Taking the wall out can also remove the protected hallway you would escape along in a fire, so the fire strategy is agreed with building control before the wall comes out.

We fit quality units, quartz, granite or composite worktops, integrated appliances and layered lighting, planning the layout around the solid-wall construction and the tight rear footprint typical of Soho. Plumbing and electrics are run in first fix, tiling and splashbacks go on once the units are set, and the notifiable electrical work is certified by a registered electrician under Part P or notified to building control. You end up with a kitchen that suits both the period building and the way you cook and entertain.

Housing in Soho

The Fitzrovia West & Soho statistical area has about 6,840 homes on the Council Tax list: 48% pre-1919, 5% interwar and 47% post-war, with flats making up 98% and houses 2%. Most homes here are flats, and a kitchen in a flat in Soho drains to the building's shared soil stack, while a new extract through the outside wall needs the freeholder's licence first.

Registering a Soho kitchen fit out with Westminster

Westminster's building control schedule includes a minor works category for the fit out of a bathroom or kitchen in one property, on either a building notice or a full plans application. For a Soho kitchen that matters because the parts building control needs to see are easy to overlook in a small flat: a new waste run to the shared stack, or electrical work not self-certified by a registered installer. Registering them as a kitchen fit out means they are inspected and recorded rather than discovered missing when the flat is sold. With 98% of Soho homes being flats, that record is also what a freeholder or a buyer's solicitor asks for later.

Which of the two routes applies depends on what else the kitchen changes. Westminster allows a building notice only where the work leaves the layout alone and falls outside the Fire Safety Order (RRO). A like-for-like kitchen in the same room may suit that. A Soho kitchen that moves into the living room, or loses the wall between them, changes the layout in a building whose shared parts sit under that Order, and goes as full plans. We settle the route before the design is fixed, because it sets how long the approval takes.

Bespoke fitted kitchens for Soho homes

Period rooms rarely suit off-the-shelf units. Soho's period flats come with chimney breasts, alcoves and tall ceilings, and made-to-measure cabinetry works far better around them than standard runs. We plan the design to use every awkward corner, whether that is a bank of tall larder units in an alcove or a run of base cabinets tucked under the window. Handleless modern or classic Shaker, we build to suit the property.

For the flats and upper-floor apartments common in W1, we work within the practical limits of leasehold. That can mean coordinating with the managing agent, checking the freeholder's rules on layout changes and paying proper attention to sound insulation and waste runs between floors. We keep the site clean, protect shared hallways and stairs, and time deliveries around central London access so a busy building carries on around the works with minimal disruption.

• Extraction ducted through to outside air
• Open-plan kitchen-diner conversions with steel support
• Island units and bespoke cabinetry

VOA Council Tax stock of properties, March 2025, for the Fitzrovia West & Soho statistical area, which also covers west Fitzrovia. Counts rounded by the VOA.

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Trusted Kitchen Renovation in Soho

A Soho kitchen often combines a structural knock-through with bespoke joinery and fine finishes, all in a period home or an occupied flat. GS Renovation delivers the beam, the services and the kitchen as one accountable project, with our founder's 30+ years on the tools. You get transparent pricing, tidy working and cabinetry built to last, handled by a single team.

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.