Soho is dense, mixed and almost entirely within a conservation area. Restaurants, bars, shops, post-production studios and offices sit under flats, often in narrow Georgian and Victorian buildings, many of them listed. Building work here is defined by logistics: tight streets, restricted deliveries, neighbours on every side and businesses that cannot close for long.
Building in Soho
- Soho Conservation Area and listed buildings control shopfronts, signage, extraction and plant, as well as internal changes in listed premises.
- Westminster’s construction rules set permitted working hours, noisy-work windows and site management standards. Many projects need agreed logistics plans.
- Restaurant and bar fit-outs depend on kitchen extraction routes, grease management, acoustic separation from the flats above and fire separation.
- Flats above shops are often refurbished at the same time, which brings separate access, fire safety and Building Regulations requirements.
Work we carry out in Soho
- Restaurant, bar and retail fit-outs, including front-of-house joinery
- Office and studio fit-outs in upper floors
- Refurbishment of flats above commercial units
- Bespoke joinery: bars, counters, shopfronts and display
Related
- Building work in Covent Garden
- Construction in Fitzrovia
- Fulham Roada commercial fit-out turning a retail unit into an interior design studio with lower-floor storage