Prime Residential Builders
in Bushey

A London prime contractor, minutes from Bushey

Crown Building has been delivering prime residential construction since 2013, and Bushey sits comfortably within the daily operating radius of our Watford headquarters. While much of our work is in the prime central London postcodes, Mayfair, Chelsea, Knightsbridge, Belgravia, our roots, our team and our registered office are minutes away. For homeowners in Bushey, that means a contractor working to a genuine prime residential standard, with senior management close enough to be on site whenever the project needs them.

We do not operate at volume. We compete on execution. The discipline that the best London projects demand, meticulous programming, a trusted specialist supply chain, senior management present on site throughout. Is exactly what we bring to a home in Bushey. The standard does not change with the postcode.

What we build in Bushey

Our residential work spans the full scope of high end building. We deliver architecturally distinctive new build homes, private residence refurbishments and structural reconfigurations, single and multistorey extensions, basement excavations, listed and period property works, and the bespoke joinery and interiors that define a finished home. Each project is delivered as design and build or contractor only, with Crown appointed as your prime residential main contractor, and transparent, itemised pricing from the outset. Commercial occupiers are served by the same teams through our commercial fit out division, and clinical and wellness premises through our healthcare and specialist environments team.

Bushey and Bushey Heath carry an unusually strong stock for their size: arts and crafts and Edwardian houses around the village conservation area, substantial detached homes along Little Bushey Lane and The Rutts, and generous plots towards Merry Hill. Our Bushey Heath case study: a complete structural remodel with new staircase, terrace and interiors, shows exactly what we deliver here: London prime specification, managed from an office close enough that senior staff can be on site daily. Extensions, basements and full refurbishments make up most of our local pipeline.

Areas we serve

We cover Bushey village, Bushey Heath, Merry Hill and the Little Bushey Lane corridor, along with neighbouring Watford, Stanmore, Harrow Weald and Aldenham. You can see our full coverage, London within the M25 and a fifteen mile radius of our Watford headquarters, on our areas we cover page.

Three conservation areas, and an Article 4 on named streets

Bushey carries three of Hertsmere's fifteen conservation areas: Bushey High Street and Melbourne Road, with an appraisal adopted in 2009, Bushey Heath High Road, and Bushey Heath The Lakes. The Council also maintains a site specific design guide for the Warren Estate covering part of The Lake conservation area, which is worth reading before any scheme is drawn there.

Separately, Article 4 Directions remove permitted development rights at a number of named Bushey addresses, including the Reveley Almshouses, Sparrows Herne, The Moorings, The Avenue and 125 Aldenham Road, Went House, and the group at Warren Road, The Comyns, The Lake, Coles Green and Rose Lawn. Where one applies, works that would be automatic elsewhere, typically windows, new openings, external painting and hardstandings, need a full application. Whether it applies is an address level question rather than a Bushey level one, and we establish it before pricing.

The numbers Hertsmere designs to

Hertsmere's Planning and Design Guide gives harder numbers for householder work than most Hertfordshire authorities, and knowing them at sketch stage avoids a refusal. A forty five degree line is taken from the nearest edge of a neighbouring habitable room window, and the guide states that where it is breached the Council is likely to refuse. Single storey extensions should not exceed three metres from ground level with a flat roof, or four metres with a pitched one.

Hip to gable roof alterations will normally be refused. A dormer should occupy no more than sixty per cent of the roof slope and should sit on the rear slope, with front dormers normally resisted. Two storey side extensions need a one metre set off from the side boundary and a two metre set in, and an integral garage needs minimum internal dimensions of three by four point eight metres. Parking standards apply to householder extensions as well as new build.

One caution worth stating: the section of that guide dealing with the Green Belt cites national guidance that has since been cancelled. The Green Belt test is now SADM26 and the National Planning Policy Framework, not the older document, and advice built on the superseded text can be materially wrong.

Clay, gravel and what they do to foundations

Bushey sits where two ground conditions meet. The Council's own evidence records London Clay dominating the borough from Bushey and Borehamwood across to Potters Bar, with pebble gravel on the higher ground at Bushey, Elstree and Shenley. Which of those you are on materially changes foundation design, and on a sloping Bushey Heath plot the answer can change across a single site.

Clay brings shrink and swell movement, which is why foundation depth near mature trees is a structural question rather than a formality, and why we would rather commission a proper investigation at feasibility than price a guess. Bushey's artistic heritage is also an adopted objective in the Core Strategy place policies, which shapes how the Council reads alterations in the conservation areas around the old village.

Speak to us about your Bushey project

If you are planning a build, refurbishment or extension in Bushey, call us on 020 3675 3999 or book a free consultation here. Our registered office is Unit 324-B, The Wenta Business Centre, Colne Way, Watford, WD24 7ND.

Frequently asked questions

Where is Crown Building based?

Crown Building's registered office is at Unit 324-B, The Wenta Business Centre, Colne Way, Watford, WD24 7ND. We work throughout London within the M25 and across Hertfordshire and the Home Counties.

Which areas around Bushey do you cover?

We cover Bushey village, Bushey Heath, Merry Hill and Little Bushey Lane, plus Watford, Stanmore, Harrow Weald and Aldenham: all minutes from our office.

Have you completed projects in Bushey?

Yes. Our Bushey Heath case study documents a complete private residence transformation, structural remodelling, a new staircase, bespoke joinery and terrace. Delivered to full prime residential specification.