15 May Case Study: Hampstead Garden Suburb
The project in Hampstead Garden Suburb is one of our favourite projects, so we’re going to shout about it! In this article we provide a little more information about this stunning basement...
22 Feb PROJECT: Hampstead 2018
We are very lucky to be able to work on basement projects on some stunning properties across London and the South East. Back in 2018 we were engaged to work on a fantastic project in Hampstead, London. It was quite a large and ambitious project but...
21 Jan Not just a Londoner…
Is it too late to be wishing everyone a Happy New Year? We hope you all had a wonderful festive break and the bump back down to office/everyday life hasn’t been too traumatic. We have been working on some new and exciting projects which are a...
17 Dec Merry Christmas from the BDS Team
We would like to take this opportunity to wish all of our friends, family, readers and clients the happiest of Christmases. This year has seen its fair share of challenges, what with Brexit putting the frighteners up everyone, but it’s also been a year of...
26 Nov Becoming an ASUC Associate Member
There aren’t enough organisations that will help maintain the standards some of us strive to achieve. We have a long standing relationship with ASUC, spanning more than a decade and we’ve seen the great things they’ve achieved in such a short time, that’s why we...
22 Oct Could you have a 24 karat basement?
When developing basement installation projects it is common for the excavation team to come across interesting things buried in the earth. As most basement digging is done by hand these archaeological findings often cause a lot of intrigue for the workers. In London our teams tend...
08 Oct The Happiest Basement in the World?
We spend a lot of time speaking about the interesting requests we get for the design and development of our clients’ basements, but we think that this chap wins, hands down!...
24 Jul Digging a Little Deeper
As the leading Basement Design specialists in London we have submitted hundreds (possibly thousands) of planning applications. We’ve spoken before about how difficult it can be in the different London Boroughs. If you’ve been to our blog before you’ll know that a basement isn’t always the...
26 Jun Rock stars feud over basement plans continues
You may remember we told you about an on-going row centred on a super shed and a basement involving two public figures in London. Well, it continues. At the beginning of this month planning permission was again deferred for a basement installation on the London...
16 Mar It’s not entirely our fault!
Planning has changed. It’s had to. There are so many different ways of improving and developing your home now that the old planning rules didn’t quite cover – and sometimes this has led to people taking advantage and over-developing their properties. This isn’t something we...