Garden rooms, extensions & lofts in Ferndown

Dorset Council. Permitted development is generous on most Ferndown plots, though a handful of roads carry restrictive covenants from the original developer, so check your deeds as well as the planning rules.

Building in Ferndown since 2011

27 projects and counting, all of them by our own crews, 20 min from our yard.

Three steps, no surprises

“The build-over agreement was the bit we dreaded and Thicketts just dealt with it. Nine weeks start to plastered.”

“Wide side access meant a machine and it flew. Three weeks and I was hitting balls in it.”

“Fixed price genuinely stayed fixed. First builder we’ve used where that was true.”

On most plots, yes. Large post-war gardens and wide frontages give you plenty of room inside the rules. Worth checking your deeds too: a handful of roads carry restrictive covenants from the original developer.

It genuinely does. Most Ferndown plots take a mini-digger, which cuts days off the groundwork phase compared with barrowing everything by hand.

If you have the space to go outwards and want the room connected to the house, extension. If it wants to be separate, whether that is an office, a gym or a golf room, the garden is cheaper and faster. We’ll say which we’d do in your position.