Office Fit-Out Pimlico

Pimlico is a residential district, so office fit-out here is small in scale. The work that does arise is a professional suite on an upper floor above a shop in one of the Local Centres, such as Lupus Street or Moreton Street, or a studio or practice in a converted stucco building. Office fit-out in Pimlico means working inside those buildings, often with residents on the floors above or beside.

For Pimlico, 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 Pimlico: 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 in Pimlico actually looks like

Office space in Pimlico is mostly small, and the fit-out has to suit that. Lupus Street, Moreton Street and Pimlico are named Local Centres in Westminster's modified Class MA Article 4 Direction, and the floors above their shops are one place small offices sit. A suite may be one or two rooms reached by a shared stair, with the residential floors above it and a shop below. Where there is no lift or loading bay, that shapes every part of the programme.

That context explains why the office stock is protected. The Article 4 Direction removes the permitted development right to turn Class E space, which includes offices, into homes in those centres, and London Plan Policy E1 asks boroughs to stop office clusters being undermined by office to residential rights. For an office tenant this is background, not a task: it means the space is expected to stay in commercial use, and a Pimlico fit-out is planned on that basis.

Cat A, Cat B and the landlord's licence in Pimlico

Most fit-outs are described as Cat A or Cat B, and it helps to know which you are buying. Cat A is the landlord's base finish: suspended ceilings, raised floors where the building has them, lighting, heating and cooling, and finished WCs, ready for a tenant. Cat B is the tenant's own layout on top: partitions and glazed screens, meeting rooms, a tea point or kitchenette, reception, small power, decoration and signage inside. Knowing which you need sets the scope and the price.

In a Pimlico building the landlord's licence for alterations comes before any of it. The licence usually asks for drawings, a method statement and the contractor's details, and it sets what must be reinstated when the lease ends. We coordinate data cabling routes with your IT supplier so containment goes in before ceilings close. At lease end, dilapidations work strips the Cat B items and returns the suite to the condition the licence describes.

Building control for a Pimlico office suite

An office fit-out in Pimlico usually needs building regulations approval, because new partitions change the means of escape. Westminster runs its own building control service, the District Surveyors Building Control Service, and defines a fit out as alterations to an existing office or shop where no structural alterations take place. Its worked example for a non-structural office fit out shows full plans with separate plan and inspection charges, which your budget should allow for. Where a wall is removed, a structural engineer's calculations come first.

The route matters. Westminster says a building notice can be used only where the work does not affect the layout and is not affected by the Fire Safety Order, and an office is covered by that Order. So new partitions go in on full plans. The drawings deal with Part B fire and means of escape, Part M access to the suite and its WC, and Part L for new lighting and services. Painting and decorating are not notifiable and are left out of the estimated cost.

Working in an occupied Pimlico building

Most Pimlico office suites share a building with shops or homes, so the programme is built around them. Noisy work runs within Westminster's normal hours, Monday to Friday 8am to 6pm and Saturday 8am to 1pm. Outside those hours Westminster wants a Section 61 application at least 28 days before works start. Quiet tasks such as second fix, cabling and decoration can run later, but only with the building's agreement.

A commercial client also has duties of its own under the CDM regulations, including making sure the work is properly planned and that the right information reaches the team. We help you meet them, prepare the construction phase plan and manage the site. Deliveries to a Pimlico upper floor come up a shared stair, so materials arrive in small loads, and the common parts are protected until the suite is handed over.

• Tea points and kitchenettes on the existing risers
• Metal stud office partitions boarded both sides
• Quiet work after hours in occupied offices, noisy work within the council's hours

VOA Council Tax stock of properties, March 2025, for Pimlico North and Pimlico South. Counts rounded by the VOA.

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Trusted Office Fit-Out in Pimlico

We fit out small offices as one managed job, from strip out and partitions to ceilings, lighting, WCs and decoration, so the business deals with one team. The programme is set around the landlord's licence, building control and the other occupiers of the building. A registered electrician installs and certifies the lighting and small power, and we coordinate data routes with your IT supplier. We build to your designer's drawings and the consents they obtain.

• Fire alarm, emergency lighting and air conditioning specialists on one programme
• Rated 4.9 from 31 reviews on MyBuilder
• Asbestos survey checked before any office ceiling, floor tile or boxing is disturbed

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