At a ground-floor flat on Meads Road in Wood Green, the proposed rear extension changes where everyday life takes place. The design brings cooking, dining and sitting together beside the garden, with wide sliding doors and a rooflight. Reworking the existing rooms is as important as the additional floor area: the scheme moves the main living space to the rear while keeping bedrooms towards the front and middle of the flat.
Haringey Council granted full planning permission on 26 June 2026, under application HGY/2026/0767, for a single-storey rear extension and alterations to rear windows.
Making the whole layout work together
The existing plan places a living room at the front and a bedroom beyond the kitchen at the rear. The proposed arrangement changes that sequence. The front room becomes a bedroom, the existing middle bedroom remains, and the rear accommodation opens into a kitchen and dining area leading to the new living space.
This gives the shared rooms a direct relationship with the private garden. Someone preparing food can remain connected to the dining and seating areas, while the bedroom accommodation remains separate from that activity.
The design illustrates why architectural layout planning needs to consider the entire property. Extending the back of a flat works best when the existing rooms, circulation and new space are considered together.
Light and views at the garden end
The extension projects three metres and is approximately 4.5 metres wide. Slim-framed aluminium sliding doors form the main garden-facing opening. They provide a broad view from the living area and a direct route onto the patio.
A structural rooflight introduces daylight from above, helping the new seating area and the connection towards the kitchen. The proposal also alters an existing side opening to form a horizontal letterbox window and adds another side window. These openings address different parts of the layout rather than relying solely on glazing at its far end.
For another example of improving a flat’s relationship with its outdoor space, our Tressillian Road project in Brockley combines rear-door alterations with a revised garden connection.
A modest extension with a considered boundary relationship
The new walls have a rendered finish, and the flat roof is edged with parapets and coping stones. Its height relates to the adjoining rear extension, keeping the addition within the established scale of development behind the terrace.
The design is set in from the boundary with No. 33. That separation was included to reduce the sense of enclosure and respond to neighbouring outlook and daylight. The main glazed opening faces the flat’s own garden, concentrating the outward view in that direction.
This attention to footprint, openings and neighbouring buildings is part of our residential extension work. At Meads Road, it supports a useful new living area while retaining outdoor space around it.
Taking the design into technical detail
The permission identifies the approved drawings and supporting documents. The design also calls for a relocated internal step and acoustic treatment to the party wall. Coordinating those details with the structural opening, rooflight and drainage forms part of the building regulations and technical design stage.
If your flat has garden access but its main rooms feel disconnected from it, book a call to explore a more useful layout.
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