Office Fit-Out Hammersmith

Office fit-out in Hammersmith sits in a real office market. The borough's Local Plan describes Hammersmith town centre, around Hammersmith Broadway, as the council's preferred office location and seeks to stop it losing office uses. We work at the scale of a small builder: a suite being refitted for a new tenant, a floor above shops on the approach to the Broadway, a studio or a professional office. We strip out, build partitions, ceilings and floors, and coordinate the specialist trades.

For Hammersmith, 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 Hammersmith: we build the office partitions, ceilings, lighting and finishes as one contract and coordinate the IT supplier and specialist trades around them.

Hammersmith town centre and the office space it keeps

The Local Plan names Hammersmith town centre as the council's preferred office location and seeks to stop it losing office uses. For a business taking space here, that policy is meant to keep office floors around the Broadway in office use. A fit-out that leaves the floor lettable as an office, with sensible partitions and services a later tenant can reuse, works with the council's aim and with your landlord's.

The London Plan asks boroughs to use Article 4 Directions so that office clusters are not undermined by office to residential permitted development. Hammersmith and Fulham says full planning permission has been needed for office to residential conversions since a direction came into place on 28 April 2018. That is the landlord's planning question, not the tenant's. For you it means a suite is expected to be refitted for the next business rather than turned into flats.

Cat A and Cat B in a Hammersmith office suite

Cat A is the landlord's base finish for a Hammersmith office: ceilings, lighting, raised floor or trunking, heating and cooling, WCs and a finished shell. Cat B is the tenant's fit-out on top of it: partitions and glazed screens, meeting rooms, a tea point or kitchenette, extra small power, signage and furniture. Ask the agent which category the space is offered at, because a Cat A suite can need most of its ceiling grid and lighting adjusted around your new rooms.

In a floor above shops, or a suite in a converted period building, there may be no Cat A at all. Those spaces start from bare plaster and old wiring, so the fit-out includes the base work as well: a new distribution board, lighting, heating and a WC or shower where the drainage reaches. We coordinate your IT supplier for data cabling, fixing containment routes before the ceilings close so the cabling goes in without opening finished work.

Building control and fire safety for Hammersmith offices

Office fit-out work in Hammersmith that needs building regulations approval goes on a Full Plans application where the council is the building control body. Its guide says offices must be built on Full Plans because the London Fire Authority has to be consulted. The council aims to decide a Full Plans application within 5 weeks, though it may take longer, so the application goes in well before the start date. Part B covers escape routes and fire separation, Part M access, and Part L lighting and services.

The fire strategy fixes the travel distances, which doors are fire rated and self closing, where emergency lighting goes and how the alarm is extended into new rooms. Glazed meeting rooms can lengthen escape routes, so their layout is checked against the strategy before glass is ordered. We sequence fire stopping above the ceilings for inspection before the tiles go in. Completion inspections need 5 days' notice, which we build into the last week before you move in.

Working in an occupied Hammersmith office building

A Hammersmith office fit-out often happens in a building where other tenants are still working, and the landlord's licence for alterations sets the rules. Noisy work is kept within the council's limit of 8am to 6pm on weekdays and 8am to 1pm on Saturdays, and a landlord may push drilling and cutting outside core office hours on top of that. Lift use, loading, and protection to reception and corridors are agreed with the building manager before the start date.

As a business commissioning construction work, you are a commercial client under the CDM Regulations, with duties of your own: allowing enough time and resources, and passing on what you know about the building, such as asbestos surveys. At the end of a lease, the same trades carry out dilapidations and reinstatement, stripping out partitions and returning the space to the condition the lease describes. We price that work against the schedule of dilapidations your surveyor agrees with the landlord.

• Strip-out of the previous tenant's office, with disposal
• Data containment laid for your IT supplier to cable
• Tea points and kitchenettes on the existing risers

VOA Council Tax stock of properties, March 2025, for Hammersmith Broadway, Brook Green, Ravenscourt Park North and Ravenscourt Park South. Counts rounded by the VOA.

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The GS Renovation Difference in Hammersmith

An office fit-out in Hammersmith runs against a lease date, a landlord's licence and a building still in use. We are a small, founder-led builder, and we price from a survey of the actual space rather than a rate per square metre. You get a written sequence covering strip out, partitions, fire stopping, ceilings and making good, and one contact who deals with the building manager. Electrical, alarm and mechanical work is carried out and certified by the specialist trades the job needs.

• Office strip-out and core drilling booked outside other tenants' working hours
• A programme built back from the date your staff move in
• Free, no-obligation quotations

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