Alterations to your home

If you would like to install an air conditioning unit or air source heat pump that includes outdoor equipment, please contact your property manager first with details of your proposal.

Each request will be considered individually. We will work with residents to support installations where the equipment can be placed:

• Without affecting the appearance of the estate or surrounding area

• Within the boundaries of your property

• Without being installed on, or extending onto, communal land or shared areas that the landlord is responsible for maintaining

Please note:

• Permission is unlikely to be granted if the equipment would be located on communal land or in shared areas

• Permission is unlikely to be granted if the outdoor unit would be clearly visible or prominent from outside your property

• You must not install any equipment until you have received written consent from us

Skip licences are £137 for an initial period of 1 month and then charged at £65 every week while it remains on Estate land. 

Scaffold licences are £137 for an initial period of 6 weeks and then charged at £65 for every two weeks thereafter until it is removed from Estate land. A scaffold licence is for a maximum term of 12 months only. 

Please give 5 days' notice for both licences. 

Licence fees are non-refundable if works do not go ahead. 

Most applications for a new or replacement flue will be approved, as long as the flue:

• is not installed on the front elevation of the building

• exits externally from your property and not via the communal area

• does not have a plume kit installed.

You can make non-structural alterations, such as replacement of old kitchen units, without requiring consent. However, any structural alteration to your property – such as removing internal walls – will require consent. If you are in any doubt, please check with us before proceeding.

Most of the original windows on leasehold blocks and properties on the Estate are either timber or steel. We will generally approve replacement windows in the same material as the original construction, provided it is a like-for-like replacement matching the existing design and configuration. We are not likely to approve a window replacement in a new material e.g. from timber to UPVC, for a property within a block of flats, unless replacements are carried out to the entire block.

1. For a flue please provide a plan of the property, marked with the intended location of the flue and the front elevation. Provide a photo of the building to mark the exit point of the flue.

2. For internal alterations, please provide a plan of the existing and proposed layout of the flat.

3. For windows, please submit detailed drawings for consideration, with an outline of materials.

4. For skips and scaffold, please provide a plan and mark on intended location of each. Provide details and timescales for the works.

If necessary, The Dulwich Estate’s architect will carry out an inspection to ensure proposals are acceptable.

Once this has been confirmed and the licence fee has been received, we will issue a licence.