Braemar Mansions Cornwall Gardens, London

The refurbishment of Braemar Mansions West London, an impressive building with £3.5m appartments finished in Granite, Marble and Walnut. Our brief was to build a small roof terrace garden in Balau and an entrance to one of the appartments from the gardens also in a beautiful Balau (Hardwood).

Planning Permission was granted by the Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea for a ground floor conservatory at Braemar Mansions, set within the Cornwall Gardens Conservation Area.

This planning permission was the third of a series that CgMs have obtained on behalf of Begere Ltd, who have been carrying out a refurbishment of this stately mansion block for over a year. CgMs successfully negotiated obtaining planning permission for a roof terrace and amenity room within the main roof area in January 2004, despite such proposals often being resisted by the Council on grounds of residential amenity.

More unusually, planning permission was granted in June 2003 for the conversion of the building from twelve to six self-contained flats. The local planning authority was initially opposed to the proposal but CgMs managed to successfully demonstrate that the scheme accorded with local planning policy, despite the net loss in number of residential units.

Decking timber: Balau