Planning works and make-safe. With time running out on planning permission, Sauce Interiors were called in at short notice to make meaningful structural alterations in the Mews. We completed that package in about ten days, then carried out a full make-safe of the main building, finishing a week early.
Services included
- Mews Staircase Demolition & Removal
- Three Timber Pergolas
- Approx. 4 m Timber Privacy Fence
- Structural Opening & Steel Frame
- Temporary Site Lighting & Power
- Wireless Site Fire Alarm
- Temporary Floor Boarding
- Waste Clearance (8 Tons)
- Pigeon Proofing
- Fire Stopping & Means of Escape Works
- CDM / H&S Site Setup
Called in at short notice for the Mews.
Blakes Hotel in Kensington had planning permission dating from May 2023. With time running out on that permission, Sauce Interiors were called in at short notice (about a week’s notice) to make meaningful structural alterations in the Mews.
We removed a structural concrete staircase, cut a new structural opening, arranged structural calculations, had a structural steel frame fabricated and fitted, built three timber pergolas and an approximately 4 metre high timber privacy fence. The package was completed in about ten days.
A variation followed to carefully dismantle an adjoining Mews pergola, reduce the main beam height by 660 mm, and rebuild it to the revised plan.
Then a full make-safe, finished a week early.
We were then instructed on a make-safe of the main hotel building. It had already been stripped by another contractor: there were no floors between the basement and the fourth floor, and the building was full of rubbish, builders’ waste and old hotel belongings.
We cleared about eight tons of waste, set up temporary floor boarding, installed temporary site lighting in every room, fitted a wireless site fire alarm system to the communal escape routes, arranged licensed pest clearance and pigeon proofing, and carried out fire assessment recommendations including fire stopping between floors, lift-shaft fireline boarding, corridor glass partition doors and means-of-escape ironmongery.
The make-safe was agreed as five weeks at the start and completed in four weeks, a week early.
Our work at Blakes Hotel included:
Removing the Mews structural staircase
Cutting a structural opening and fitting the steel frame
Building three timber pergolas and an approximately 4 m privacy fence
Arranging structural calculations and steel fabrication
Clearing about eight tons of waste from basement to fourth floor
Temporary floor boarding and site lighting throughout
Wireless site fire alarm and extinguisher stations
Pigeon netting and licensed pest clearance
Fire stopping, lift-shaft fireline works and means-of-escape adjustments
CDM, F10 and site health and safety setup
This case study is about urgent planning and make-safe work, not a finished guest-facing refurbishment. The photos show the worksite as it was.
