Whether you require an extra bedroom, study, living space or helipad! London Elite Trades have the experience and knowledge to mobilise your dreams.

Let us transform your unused loft into an attractive and functional space to be enjoyed by you and your family.

We pride ourselves on imparting our customer’s with a complete service for their loft extension. This holistic approach to building your new loft places customer satisfaction at the heart of each project.

Being fully bespoke and uniquely tailored to your specific requirements, our team of professionals can help make your loft the most prized room in your home, whilst adding significant value to your property.

Increase the value of your home

With the ever-rising costs of moving, a loft conversion can present the perfect solution to providing more space and will also enhance the value of your home. A loft conversion is one of the cheapest, easiest and most efficient methods of increasing your living space.

The London Elite Trades team has over ten years experience of converting lofts and is an approachable business offering a high level of personal service and outstanding workmanship.

We are focussed and dedicated to customer satisfaction, all workers are covered by public liability insurance and we guarantee the work carried out for a minimum of 5-years. All works are also covered by our insurer, which in turn insures your property whilst your loft is under construction.
We are a specialist loft conversion company so whether you live in a terrace, detached house, semi-detached house or even a flat, we can help.

The purpose of building regulations is to ensure that anyone wishing to design, construct or alter a building does so to a set of national standards.

All loft conversions require full plans to be submitted together with a set of appropriate structural calculations, which will be scrutinised by the local authority building control department and the engineers section.

All properties have to comply with a rigorous set of fire regulations when building an additional storey. The construction of a loft conversion must be 0.5-hour fire resistant from the rest of the house, which is why a fire-check lobby at the head, or occasionally at the bottom of the stairs, is mandatory.

With the enforcement of a new building law, passed in April 2007, it is now not necessary to provide a means of escape in the loft through a fire escape for Velux conversions, but to replace or upgrade all existing habitable room doors to fire doors. These will be checked for compliance at the final building inspector visit.

Official regulations affect the type of conversions available to you, according to the type of house you wish to convert and the area you live in. However, a large proportion of properties do not require planning permission for a loft conversion as the majority of properties have permitted development rights.

Planning permission takes between eight to ten weeks for the Council to reach a final decision and issue approval, required amendments or the disapproval of the application. The process of planning permission includes posting the proposed details of the build in the local paper and on the wall outside the property and/or a lamp post and issuing plans and notification to neighbours or surrounding properties.

In the event planning permission is refused, you have the right of appeal to the Department of Environment, although such appeals can be both costly and time consuming. However, with the knowledge of an experienced architect and design team a refusal and appeal is easily avoided, our architects have many years experience and we do have architects employed by us that have even worked within the planning department of the local Council.