Design and build in Reigate, since 1996.

Our address is 49 Vogan Close, RH2 8AT, a few minutes from the High Street. So when a Reigate job comes in, it is a local job for us in the truest sense of the word. We have been building since 1996, and much of what we take on in the town arrives by recommendation, from people who have walked past a scaffold on their own road and asked who was behind it. That matters more here than it might elsewhere. Reigate is a town where people tend to stay, extend and improve rather than move on, and a builder gets judged by the houses they leave behind.

The housing is a proper mix, which is part of what keeps the work interesting. Climb away from the town centre towards Reigate Hill and you find substantial Victorian and Edwardian villas: generous rooms, high ceilings, solid brick walls with no cavity, and a great deal of original joinery worth saving rather than skipping. Around Doods Road, Doods Park and Wray Common there are Edwardian and inter war houses on wide plots, many of them close to ideal for a rear or wraparound extension. Head out to Woodhatch and South Park and the stock turns to 1930s semis and post war family housing, where a loft conversion or a side return usually gives the biggest gain for the money. In the older part of town, along the High Street and the lanes near Reigate Priory, there are period cottages and protected frontages that need a far gentler hand.

Reigate and Banstead Borough Council is the planning authority, and a good part of the town centre and the streets around it fall inside conservation areas. That changes the job. Materials get looked at closely, window styles matter, permitted development rights are often reduced or removed altogether, and work that would be waved through on a modern estate needs a full application here. We would far rather find that out on the first visit than three weeks into a design, so we check the constraints on your address before anyone starts drawing. If a listed building, an article 4 direction or a protected tree is in play, we say so early and plan around it.

The other half of building in Reigate is the practical side, and it is the half most people forget to ask about. Plenty of the older roads have narrow frontages, parking along both sides and a side alley that a wide dumper will never fit down, so muck away and deliveries have to be thought through rather than assumed. Homes towards Reigate Heath and out on the green belt fringe often sit on clay, which affects foundation depth, and mature trees nearby can push it deeper still. We survey all of that up front, agree how the site will run with you and, where it helps, with your neighbours, and we sweep the road outside your house at the end of every day.

We are a design and build company, which means one team and one point of contact from the first survey through to handover. We work alongside architects, designers and structural engineers rather than employing them, so you get people who are genuinely good at their part of it, and we manage the whole thing so you are not chasing three firms who have never met. Groundworks, structure, first fix, second fix and finishes all sit with us. That is what we mean by from the soil in the ground to the keys in your hand.