Office Fit-Out Hammersmith and Fulham

The office work we take on in Hammersmith and Fulham is at the small end: a floor above a shop, a suite in a period building, a studio, or the rooms of a professional practice. The fit-out is about how the space works for the people in it: strip out, partitions and glazed screens, ceilings, lighting and small power, a tea point and WCs. Offices here go through Full Plans building control with the London Fire Authority consulted, so the programme starts with drawings rather than demolition, and we hand back a working floor with its certificates.

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

What office space looks like in Hammersmith and Fulham

Office space in Hammersmith and Fulham is mostly small and mixed in with homes, often in the same buildings as flats and shops. The office jobs that reach a builder of our size are a floor above a parade shop, a small suite in an older building, a studio, or the consulting rooms of a practice. We do not pretend to fit out corporate headquarters. The jobs here are one or two floors, often with neighbours on the same stair, and the constraints come from the building rather than from the brief.

The council has long tried to hold on to that stock. Its 2018 Article 4 direction on office to residential conversions was made under the old office right, which has since been replaced. Offices now sit in Class E, and the right to turn Class E space into homes is Class MA, whose prior approval covers natural light in every habitable room. The council has consulted on a new direction removing that right at 44 retail and employment locations. London Plan Policy E1 asks boroughs to stop office clusters being undermined by that right. For a tenant this is background, and the fit-out question is how well the space works for your team.

Cat A and Cat B fit-out for a Hammersmith and Fulham office

Cat A and Cat B are the two halves of an office fit-out, and it helps to know which one you are buying. Cat A is the landlord's base: a raised floor or finished screed, a suspended ceiling, lighting, heating and cooling, and working WCs, left open plan. Cat B is the tenant's layout on top: partitions and glazed screens, meeting rooms, a tea point or kitchenette, extra small power, signs inside and the finishes. A small Hammersmith and Fulham suite may be let somewhere between the two, so the survey decides what stays.

The order matters more than the size. We strip out what the new layout does not use, set out partitions from the drawings, and run first fix electrics and data containment before any ceiling closes. Data cabling is coordinated with your IT supplier, who terminates and tests it, so containment routes and outlet positions are agreed early. Lighting and small power are installed and certified by a registered electrician. Ceilings, floor finishes, joinery and decoration follow, and snagging is finished before your furniture arrives.

Building control and fire safety for Hammersmith and Fulham offices

An office fit-out in Hammersmith and Fulham that includes building work goes through Full Plans with building control, not a Building Notice. The council's building control guide says premises such as offices and shops must be built on a Full Plans application because the London Fire Authority needs to be consulted. The council aims to give a decision on a Full Plans application within 5 weeks, though it may take longer. Submit the plans well before the lease start date if you want to move in soon after taking the keys.

Three parts of the regulations shape an office layout. Part B sets escape routes, travel distances, fire doors, emergency lighting and alarm coverage, and a new meeting room can lengthen an escape route if it is placed badly. Part M covers access, including entrances and an accessible WC where the work affects them. Part L covers the efficiency and controls of new lighting and services. Site inspections need 1 day's notice in most instances and completion inspections 5 days' notice, so we book them into the programme.

Occupied Hammersmith and Fulham buildings, CDM and the end of the lease

An office above shops or below flats in Hammersmith and Fulham shares its walls with people who stay put while we work. The council tries to limit noisy work to between 8am and 6pm from Monday to Friday and between 8am and 1pm on Saturdays, so we cut and drill inside that window and pull cables or paint later where the landlord allows. The tenant obtains the landlord's licence for alterations. A business commissioning the work is a client under the CDM Regulations, with duties of its own, starting with pre-construction information.

At the end of a lease the same floor may need the reverse job. Dilapidations turn on the reinstatement clauses in the lease and the licence for alterations, so partitions, cabling and tenant fixtures may have to come out and the space go back to its original state. We price reinstatement from the schedule your surveyor agrees, strip out and make good, and record what was removed. Planning for this at fit-out stage, by keeping the drawings and fixing methods on file, makes the exit cheaper and quicker later.

• Small power to desks, floor boxes and perimeter trunking
• LED office lighting with presence and daylight controls
• Strip-out of the previous tenant's office, with disposal

VOA Council Tax stock of properties, March 2025, for all 25 statistical areas in Hammersmith and Fulham. Counts rounded by the VOA.

Related reading for Hammersmith and Fulham businesses planning office fit-out: commercial fit-out in Hammersmith and Fulham, our Hammersmith and Fulham area guide, what a main building contractor does, building control in London, office fit-out anywhere in London and Painting and Decorating Cost.

The GS Renovation Difference in Hammersmith and Fulham

Office fit-outs go wrong on sequence and paperwork more often than on carpentry. We visit, read the landlord's licence conditions and the approved plans, and give a written quotation with a dated programme set against your move-in date. One team handles strip out, partitions, ceilings, floors, joinery and decoration, with a registered electrician certifying lighting and power. We work round occupied floors, coordinate with your IT supplier, and hand over the certificates your landlord and building control ask for.

• A programme built back from the date your staff move in
• Every new office circuit certified to BS 7671 by a registered electrician
• Aftercare and snagging support once the job is finished

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