Office Fit-Out Greenwich

Office fit-out in Greenwich is small-scale work, and we say so plainly. This is a borough of homes rather than a business district, and the London Plan names Croydon town centre as the strategic outer London office location. The office space to expect is on Greenwich Peninsula, above shops in the retail centres and in studios and small suites. For a business taking or reworking one of those spaces, we strip out, build partitions and ceilings, run lighting and power, and fit meeting rooms, tea points and WCs.

For Greenwich, the construction part of an office fit-out is published at £70 to £120 per sq ft as a UK guide, and an all-in London office fit-out at £148 to £359 per sq ft (Oktra and Cushman and Wakefield, 2026). GS Renovation Ltd, a building contractor based in Potters Bar, does the work in Greenwich: we build the office partitions, ceilings, lighting and finishes as one contract and coordinate the IT supplier and specialist trades around them.

Where office space in Greenwich actually is

Office work in Greenwich follows a small and scattered stock. One named office location is Greenwich Peninsula near the O2, where a 2013 office to residential Article 4 direction applied until Royal Greenwich cancelled it on 8 August 2023. Elsewhere, expect Class E units in the retail centres, such as a first floor over a shop reached by its own street door, plus professional suites and creative studios in converted buildings.

That shapes the job more than any brochure. A suite above a shop usually has one stair, limited power and a landlord who also lets the flat or shop next door, so the fit-out is planned around shared risers and neighbours. A Peninsula floor tends to arrive as a shell with services at the core. Class MA, which lets Class E become homes, is context here rather than the tenant's concern: it decides whether the landlord could later turn your floor into flats, and in the retail centres Royal Greenwich has removed that right.

Cat A and Cat B fit-out for a Greenwich office

Cat A is the landlord's standard finish that makes a floor lettable: raised floor or finished screed, suspended ceiling, base lighting, heating and cooling, and working toilets. Cat B is the tenant's layer on top: partitions and glazed screens, meeting rooms, a tea point or kitchenette, extra small power, signage and decoration. On a Greenwich floor let as a shell, both happen at once, so the lease plan tells us which items the landlord pays for and which you do.

Data is the item that most often slips. We run containment and floor boxes to the layout, and your IT supplier specifies and terminates the cabling, so their visit is fixed in the programme before the ceilings close. Royal Greenwich's charging scheme says its building control team should be advised when a building is altered, and partitions that change escape routes or new WCs count, so the drawings go in before the strip-out rather than after the partitions are up.

Full plans, escape routes and access in a Greenwich office

Royal Greenwich building control requires a Full Plans application, and rejects a Building Notice, where the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 applies to the building. Every workplace falls under that order, so a Greenwich office fit-out should plan for drawings to be checked before work starts. Treat plan approval as a date in the programme, not a formality, and have the fire strategy drawn early. A small suite with one stair needs the most care, because its single escape route decides the layout.

What the plans show is what we then build to: escape routes and travel distances under Part B, fire doors and their closers, fire-stopping where cables pass through partitions and ceilings, emergency lighting and the alarm layout. Part M covers level access and an accessible WC where the layout changes, and Part L sets the efficiency of new lighting and controls. Adding a glazed meeting room late can lengthen a travel distance, so fixing the layout first keeps the Greenwich programme intact.

Working in an occupied Greenwich building, and leaving it

An office fit-out in a shared building often runs with other tenants still working around you. Royal Greenwich usually limits noisy construction to weekday daytime and Saturday mornings, with none on Sundays or bank holidays, and the Control of Pollution Act 1974 gives Environmental Health powers over building noise. So core drilling and cutting stay inside those hours, and the landlord may want disruption kept away from other tenants, so only quiet tasks such as cabling and decorating move to evenings. The landlord's licence for alterations sets these rules.

Two duties sit with you as the business client. Under the CDM regulations a commercial client must make suitable arrangements for managing the project and pass on information such as the asbestos survey, and we act as the contractor who plans and runs the work. At the end of the lease, dilapidations may require reinstatement, so we record what was built and where the base services sit, which makes stripping out later in Greenwich quicker.

• Dilapidations and reinstatement works at the end of an office lease
• Internal office signage and manifestation on glazed screens
• Quiet work after hours in occupied offices, noisy work within the council's hours

VOA Council Tax stock of properties, March 2025, for all 35 statistical areas in Greenwich. Counts rounded by the VOA.

Useful next reading for a office fit-out project in Greenwich: commercial fit-out in Greenwich, our Greenwich area guide, builders across London, what a snagging list covers, how we handle office fit-out across London and Choosing a Builder.

Why Choose GS Renovation in Greenwich

An office fit-out usually has a fixed move-in date, so the programme matters more than on a home. We give you one programme covering strip-out, partitions, ceilings, floors, joinery and decoration, and we coordinate the electrician, the mechanical trades, the fire alarm installer and your IT supplier around it. The drawings come from your designer or the landlord's specification and we build to them. You get regular progress updates, one site contact, and a record of what was installed for the end of the lease.

• Asbestos survey checked before any office ceiling, floor tile or boxing is disturbed
• Honest updates if a date or a detail has to move
• Office strip-out and core drilling booked outside other tenants' working hours

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Checked by Abdelaaziz Saaid, founder and director of GS Renovation Ltd (Companies House no. 14611254).