Planning consultants in Holland Park.
Kensington · W8 · Kensington new-build housesCompleted work, photograph
Planning for Holland Park’s villas and their gardens. Listing, trees and drainage shape what each plot can take.
A Holland Park villa, and the plot around it.
- Villas
- Often semi-detached, set back
- Drainage
- A named critical drainage area
- W11 · W14
- Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
NU Projects is a design and build company in Fulham SW6, founded in 2010. We handle planning applications and appeals in Holland Park W11, under one contract. Fees are priced per project by our own quantity surveyor, from the actual scope. Call 020 7731 6841, and a budget estimate typically follows within seven days.
Big Victorian villas define the district, many built as matching pairs. They stand back behind front gardens and walls. Plots run deep by borough standards, and some villas are listed.
Everything here lies in conservation areas. Front gardens, boundary walls and roof lines get close attention. So do the gaps between paired villas, which CD13 protects.
A listed villa cannot be dug under, vaults included. Its listing reaches inside too, where work touches historic fabric. The realistic brief is often reworking existing floors.
Bigger gardens bring mature trees. An arboricultural survey maps their roots before a plan is fixed. Valued trees must not be lost or put at risk.
The borough names a Holland Park critical drainage area. Any basement brings a flood risk assessment and a sustainable drainage strategy. Attenuation is sized before the garden is designed.
What the borough tests on a Holland Park plot.
- Council
- Kensington and Chelsea, applying its July 2024 Local Plan.
- Setting
- Front gardens, boundary walls and roof lines are judged closely in the conservation area.
- Symmetry
- CD13 protects the balance of a pair and the gaps that matter.
- Listed villas
- Consent covers the interior. No excavation goes beneath the building.
- Trees
- No loss or long term threat to valued trees. A full tree survey goes in.
- Drainage
- Critical drainage area named by the borough. Sustainable drainage is required.
Source: Kensington and Chelsea’s Local Plan 2024, Policies CD4, CD5, CD11 and CD13. Read on 3 October 2026. Policies change, so we read them again for your address.
Our work near Holland Park.
Kensington·New build
Kensington new-build houses
Nearby in Kensington W8, two new family houses we took from planning to handover.
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Chelsea townhouse, opened up and fitted out
A Chelsea townhouse further south, reworked inside over a new basement.
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What planning costs in Holland Park.
Tree and drainage reports add to the cost of preparing an application.
We list each report and its fee before you commit.
What Holland Park owners ask about planning.
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Further reading, from the blog
Can I build a basement under a listed Holland Park villa?
No. The borough allows no excavation under a listed building, vaults included.
We look at what the existing floors can give instead.
Why does Holland Park need a drainage assessment?
The borough names a Holland Park critical drainage area.
Every basement in the borough needs a flood risk assessment.
Sustainable drainage is required too.
Will the trees in my Holland Park garden affect planning?
Usually. A mature canopy is protected where it has value.
An arboricultural report with root protection areas goes in with the drawings.
Can I fill the gap beside my Holland Park villa?
Rarely. Views between paired villas are part of the character.
CD13 resists additions that close an important gap or unbalance a pair.
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