LetUsBuildYourDreams
Extensions, loft conversions, refurbishments and new builds across Woodford Green — our home borough — and the wider Redbridge area.
Woodford Green is where our studio is based, in Repton Park, so this is the one part of London we know street by street rather than from a planning portal. The housing runs from substantial Edwardian and interwar villas around Monkhams to the gated Repton Park development on the former Claybury site, and the design response that suits one does not carry across to the other.
The single most important thing to establish here is which authority actually decides your application. Most of Woodford Green — including the IG8 streets and Repton Park — sits within the London Borough of Redbridge, but properties on the Epping Forest side of the boundary are determined by Epping Forest District Council in Essex, under different local policies. We confirm which applies to your address before anything is drawn, because it changes the forms, the fees and the arguments that carry weight.
Much of the area also sits close to Epping Forest and contains conservation areas where permitted development rights are restricted and materials, roof form and fenestration come under real scrutiny. A householder application to Redbridge Council carries a statutory eight-week determination period, so the value of knowing the constraints before you submit is measured in months.
Not a stock photo library — these are MYD schemes in this borough, with the drawings we produced for them.
Fixed fee, agreed in writing before any work starts — quoted after your free consultation, so it reflects your actual property rather than an average. A householder application to Redbridge Council carries a statutory eight-week determination period.
We talk through what you want to achieve, look at the property and tell you honestly whether it is likely to get consent.
A measured survey plus a check of planning history, constraints and permitted development rights for your specific address.
We develop the scheme with you and produce the drawings the council needs, revising until you are happy.
We submit, handle the case officer’s questions and negotiate amendments rather than accepting a refusal.
It depends on your exact address. The majority of Woodford Green, including the IG8 postcode and Repton Park, falls under the London Borough of Redbridge. Properties on the Epping Forest side of the boundary are dealt with by Epping Forest District Council in Essex instead. The two apply different local policies, so the first thing we do is confirm which authority your property sits in.
Not always. Many single-storey rear extensions and loft conversions fall within permitted development, subject to the usual limits on depth, height and volume, and provided those rights have not been removed by a condition, an Article 4 direction or a conservation-area designation. We check the planning history for your specific address before advising.
Yes. MYD Studio works out of Repton Park, Woodford Green, and Redbridge is our home borough — we deal with this council and these streets constantly. It is a genuine advantage: we know how the borough assesses householder schemes and where the local sensitivities are.
The whole of Redbridge and the surrounding area — South Woodford, Wanstead, Barkingside, Clayhall and Ilford, as well as Buckhurst Hill, Chigwell and Loughton across the Essex boundary.
Three questions, about thirty seconds. We will come back to you with an honest view on whether your Woodford Green project is likely to get consent — before you have spent anything.
MYD Studio designs extensions, conversions and new builds across South and East London. Each project below is anchored to real work we have taken through planning in that borough — explore by area:
