GS Renovation creates open-plan living across Canary Wharf, from broken-plan layouts in warehouse conversions to bright kitchen-diners in new-build riverside apartments. With 30+ years of structural work in E14, we knock through safely, insert steelwork where needed and coordinate the leasehold consents so your open space is delivered without compromise.
Open-plan living in Canary Wharf apartments
The contemporary character of E14 lends itself to open-plan living, and in many new-build apartments the wall between kitchen and living space is a lightweight partition that comes out easily to form a single sociable room. In warehouse conversions the picture is different: exposed brick, generous ceiling heights and original structure invite broken-plan schemes and Crittall-style dividers that zone the space without closing it in.
Whether it is a simple knock-through or a wider structural opening, we start by confirming what each wall does. Where a wall is load-bearing, the engineer sizes a steel beam onto padstones, and we prop, demolish in stages and install the steel before making good. Where it is a partition, we remove it cleanly and address the floor, ceiling and services that run through it.
Consents and neighbours in E14
Open-plan work in a leasehold Canary Wharf flat runs through the freeholder and managing agent, so we prepare the engineer's drawings for the licence to alter and schedule the noisier work within the building's rules on hours and communal-area protection. Living close to neighbours in a riverside block, sound insulation between dwellings is designed in wherever floors or structural elements are altered.
Any structural opening is notifiable under the Building Regulations and certified by Tower Hamlets Council building control, with no planning permission needed for this internal work. We manage the sequence so your kitchen-diner or broken-plan space is delivered as one coordinated project: engineer, consents, steelwork, propping, first and second fix, and a clean, certified finish you can move straight back into.
- Knock-throughs between front and rear reception rooms
- Bi-fold and sliding door openings onto the garden
- Flush beam detailing where a downstand would look wrong
- Heat loss and acoustic considerations before the wall comes out
- Zoned lighting circuits and dimming for a multi-use room
Why Canary Wharf Homeowners Choose GS Renovation
Homeowners across Canary Wharf choose GS Renovation because we deliver open-plan conversions as a single accountable project: structural engineer, freeholder licence to alter, managing-agent coordination and Tower Hamlets building control all handled. We prop and cut steel safely, protect an occupied E14 flat throughout, and bring 30+ years of Docklands structural experience to every knock-through.
- A dedicated project manager from first survey to handover
- Dust screens and floor protection in occupied homes
- Fully insured, with cover in place on every site
- Lighting circuits zoned rather than one pendant in the middle
- Floor levels and thresholds evened out across the whole space
- Heating and radiator positions reworked for the new layout