Building work in Bexleyheath: area guide
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This is our area guide to building work in Bexleyheath (DA6, DA7, Bexley): the housing, the council rules that apply (Bexley Council for planning) and every service we offer here. For whole-house refurbishment go to Home renovation in Bexleyheath.
Many DA6 jobs start with a 1930s semi. The streets spreading out from the Broadway shopping centre towards Danson Park and the Red House follow a handful of repeating designs, all with a cavity wall, a hipped roof, a front bay, a side path and a long garden behind. Consistency is the advantage: spans, roof timbers and drain runs turn up where you expect them, so surveying is accurate. In Bexleyheath the first question is often which walls carry load, since removing one is load-bearing wall removal, before any house extension. We are rated 4.9 from 31 reviews on MyBuilder.
Around 8,550 homes make up Bexleyheath on the valuation list; 27% are flats and 73% houses, and 19% date from before 1919, 40% from between the wars and 41% from after 1945. VOA Council Tax stock of properties, March 2025, for Bexleyheath Broadway and Danson Park. Counts rounded by the VOA.
Through rooms, old steel and chimney breasts need checking first
A great many of these houses were opened up between the front and back reception rooms decades ago, and the quality of that earlier work varies enormously. We regularly find beams with almost no bearing at one end, steel sitting straight on brickwork with no padstone, and in damp positions, corrosion that has expanded and cracked the masonry around it. If your ground floor already has a through opening, have what is above it inspected before any kitchen renovation: any remedial RSJ installation comes first, rather than assuming forty years standing means another forty.
Chimney breasts are the other common gain, and chimney breast removal returns useful floor area in rooms planned around open fires nobody now uses. The masonry above still has to be carried, on a steel beam the engineer sizes, or on brackets only where the engineer and building control accept them, and the remaining stack needs capping and ventilating so it does not sweat. In a semi the stack is usually shared with the attached neighbour, which brings notice duties under the Party Wall etc. Act 1996. You serve the notice as building owner, or your surveyor does; we supply the drawings and programme it needs and build to any award.
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Building work in Bexleyheath: common questions
Should I get an existing through lounge opening checked?
Yes, particularly if the work was done decades ago and you have no paperwork for it. We commonly find inadequate bearings, missing padstones and corroded steel in older openings in these houses. A structural engineer can assess what is there and specify remedial work, which we carry out as an RSJ job. Doing that while ground floor work is already under way is far cheaper than revisiting it later.
Do I need to notify my attached neighbour about chimney work?
Yes, where the chimney stack is shared, which in a semi it usually is. Cutting a breast out of a shared stack falls under the Party Wall etc. Act 1996, and notice has to reach the neighbour in writing ahead of any demolition. You serve that notice as building owner; we supply the method and drawings it needs and keep the neighbour informed of timings. Building control inspects the support before it is covered.
Where do materials and waste go on a DA6 job?
On your own plot in nearly every case, a real advantage here. The driveway takes a skip, the side path takes barrows and materials, and nothing travels through the house, which keeps the interior clean and speeds up the programme. The same access makes a rear house extension job simpler than in a terrace. Where the driveway cannot take a skip, we arrange a road permit before the start date.
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