House Extensions · N22 Wood Green
Haringey controls the Noel Park model estate and the Alexandra Park conservation area; Wood Green is a major Opportunity Area.
This page covers one part of the borough. For the full picture — fees, timelines and the council's current position — read house extensions in Haringey.
House extensions in Wood Green are dominated by single-storey rear and side-return additions on N22's victorian and edwardian terraces around wood green, with double-storey and wrap-around schemes where the plot allows. Haringey Council weighs depth, height and neighbour daylight; many extensions across Wood Green, Alexandra Palace, Noel Park, Bounds Green fringe are Permitted Development, which we confirm with a Lawful Development Certificate before you build.
The whole spectrum — rear extensions, side returns, wraparounds, double-storey, basement digs. Planning-led design with detailed technical phase, ideal for victorian and edwardian terraces around wood green typical of Wood Green.
Across Wood Green, Alexandra Palace, Noel Park, Bounds Green fringe in N22, the dominant property is victorian and edwardian terraces around wood green, post-war estates, and the conservation streets below alexandra palace. That stock shapes what house extension drawings looks like here: the right approach for a period terrace differs from a mansion-block flat or a new-build, and Haringey Council judges each on design quality and neighbour impact. We survey the specific Wood Green property, confirm the planning route — Permitted Development, a Lawful Development Certificate, or full planning — and draw a council-ready set tailored to the N22 streetscape.
Housing stock in N22: Victorian and Edwardian terraces around Wood Green, post-war estates, and the conservation streets below Alexandra Palace.
Within the district: Wood Green, Alexandra Palace, Noel Park, Bounds Green fringe.
Streets we know in N22: the Noel Park model-estate roads, Truro Road, the Alexandra Park streets and Station Road. Each road has its own building line, boundary treatment and precedent that Haringey Council weighs when assessing a house extension drawings scheme.
Conservation areas: Noel Park, Alexandra Park, Wood Green Common. Inside these, most external work needs full planning and a Heritage Statement.
Getting around N22: Wood Green on the Piccadilly line, plus Alexandra Palace and Bowes Park rail.
Regeneration: Wood Green falls within or beside the Wood Green / Haringey Heartlands Opportunity Area, which shapes local planning policy and design expectations.
Property values: the middle half of N22’s 2025 sales ran from £440,000 to £750,000, with the median at £560,000. Land Registry price-paid data covers 339 transactions in the district. Nothing in that data says what an extension changes about a later sale price.
Borough character: Muswell Hill and Crouch End have strong conservation coverage with clear loft/mansard precedents; Tottenham generally permissive.
Measured existing survey, photographic record, Article 4 and conservation check specific to Wood Green before we quote.
2–3 design options at concept stage — alternative layouts, glazing, roof forms.
Site location plan, existing and proposed plans, elevations, sections, D&AS where required.
Part L thermal, Part B fire, Part M accessibility, structural strategy.
Steel beam, foundation, lintel design. Chartered engineer sign-off.
Party Wall notices where needed; Thames Water Build Over Agreement where within 3m of a public sewer.
Single planning or building-regs submission.
Planning + building regs + structural.
Listed, conservation or complex sites.
Yes. The Victorian and Edwardian terraces around Truro Road and the Alexandra Park streets suit side-return and rear extensions plus loft conversions, much of it within Permitted Development outside the conservation areas, confirmed with a Lawful Development Certificate. We confirm the route and draw to Haringey's checklist.
Noel Park is a designated conservation area — a Victorian model estate with strong uniform character — so external changes there are tightly assessed on materials, bays and roofs, and full planning with a Heritage Statement is required. We design sympathetically to the estate's pattern and submit to Haringey.
Wood Green is a designated Opportunity Area bringing new homes, a Crossrail 2 safeguarded station and town-centre renewal, lifting values across N22. For a house project the binding controls remain Permitted Development limits and the local conservation area, which we check for your address.
Usually yes outside the conservation areas — a rear dormer or hip-to-gable within the volume allowance, confirmed by a Lawful Development Certificate. Inside Noel Park or Alexandra Park, roof changes need full planning. We confirm which applies to your road.
Haringey Council charges its own statutory application fee (currently £548 for a householder planning application, £610 for a full application). We quote the drawings as one fixed price and the free site survey covers every N22 address.
For a N22 project across Wood Green, Alexandra Palace, Noel Park, Bounds Green fringe, expect roughly 3–4 weeks from instruction to submission: week 1 the measured survey, weeks 2–3 the drawings and your revisions, then validation and the statutory determination by Haringey Council (8 weeks for a householder application). We carry the Wood Green application through every officer query to the decision.
Wood Green (N22) sits primarily in Haringey, so applications are decided by Haringey Council. Conservation areas within N22 include Noel Park, Alexandra Park, Wood Green Common, where full planning and a Heritage Statement are required. We confirm the planning route for your exact address before quoting.
Almost always. Any structural work behind house extension drawings in Wood Green — new openings, steel beams, loft floors, foundations — needs Building Regulations approval covering structure (Part A), fire escape (Part B) and insulation (Part L), submitted to Haringey Council Building Control or an approved inspector. On N22's typically terraced and semi-detached stock, a Party Wall notice to adjoining neighbours is normally required before the steelwork. We coordinate both as part of the Complete package.
In value terms, yes. The bigger risk is an unapproved or non-compliant scheme — which is why council-ready drawings and a clean Building Control sign-off matter on N22 homes.
Working across a borough boundary, or unsure which council will decide your application? Every service we offer is listed for N4, N6, N8 and N10.
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Every N22 postcode district we draw in, the stock that dominates it and the authority that validates a house extension there. N22 fees below are the statutory England rates for 2026, not house extension estimates.
| Postcode | Area | Dominant stock | What it means for a house extension |
|---|---|---|---|
| N22 | Wood Green / Alexandra Palace | Edwardian terraces, post-war flats | N22 covers Wood Green / Alexandra Palace only; Haringey Council handles the house extension. |
| N22 | Wood Green | Edwardian terraces, post-war flats | Wood Green sits inside N22; house extension proposals here are determined by Haringey Council. |
| N4 | Finsbury Park / Stroud Green | Victorian terraces, post-war estates | Adjoining district to N22, also inside Haringey for house extension purposes. |
| N8 | Crouch End / Hornsey | Edwardian terraces, Victorian villas | Adjoining district to N22, also inside Haringey for house extension purposes. |
| N10 | Muswell Hill | Edwardian villas, 1930s semi-detached | Adjoining district to N22, also inside Haringey for house extension purposes. |
| N15 | Seven Sisters / South Tottenham | Victorian terraces, post-war estates | Adjoining district to N22, also inside Haringey for house extension purposes. |
Roof pitch, wall build-up and plot depth change every few N22 streets, and each one changes what a house extension can achieve at that address.
N22 (Wood Green / Alexandra Palace) conservation designations: there are 29 across Haringey Council, Muswell Hill, Crouch End, Tottenham Green among them. Designation costs a N22 (Wood Green / Alexandra Palace) owner the permitted-development route: a house extension then needs a £548 householder application over 8 weeks, in place of the £249 prior approval route that takes 6 weeks. Highgate Village is the N22 (Wood Green / Alexandra Palace) designation that most often changes a house extension design.
N22 (Wood Green / Alexandra Palace) and Article 4: Borough-wide Article 4 for HMO conversions. A house extension planned at a N22 address is checked against that direction first; Haringey Council publishes the N22 (Wood Green / Alexandra Palace) extent, and the N22 line rarely follows the N22 (Wood Green / Alexandra Palace) boundary you would expect.
N22 (Wood Green / Alexandra Palace) housing stock: Edwardian terraces in Crouch End, Muswell Hill; Victorian two-up-two-downs in Harringay Ladder; 1930s semi-detached in Muswell Hill; post-war in Tottenham. Muswell Hill and Crouch End have strong conservation coverage with clear loft/mansard precedents; Tottenham generally permissive. Read that before choosing a house extension route in N22 (Wood Green / Alexandra Palace) — construction, not postcode, sets what is achievable. Haringey Council charges £548 for a householder application and has 8 weeks to determine it.
Sources for this N22 house extension page: borough policies maps and conservation-area registers (2025–26), Royal Mail postcode district boundaries, the Town and Country Planning (Fees for Applications) (England) Regulations, the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) Order 2015 as amended, and the Party Wall etc. Act 1996.
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