From the old village to Chase Farm
Gedling appears in the Domesday Book, but a lot of its housing is very recent. Colliery Way, which opened in 2022 across the former colliery site, gives access to the Chase Farm development, where the council approved a final phase of 433 homes, from two to five bedrooms, that same year. With Gedling Country Park on the old pit site and our base in Mapperley about two miles to the west, it is a short trip for us to come and measure up.
Changing the layout of a new build
New homes often come with an open ground floor and a large main bedroom. Once the house is lived in, a partition is a common change: a study closed off from the living space, a playroom, a walk-in wardrobe off the main bedroom, or a cupboard for coats and the vacuum cleaner.
The internal walls of a new build are usually plasterboard on a frame already, so a new one fits in naturally. A few checks first:
- Warranty. If the house is still under a new-build warranty, read what it says about alterations.
- Ventilation. Modern homes rely on extract fans, trickle vents and sometimes whole-house ventilation. A new wall shouldn't leave one side of a room without fresh air or extraction, and building regulations cover ventilation of habitable rooms. A pilot of 33 homes at Chase Farm is being built to the Future Homes standard; if yours is one of them, find out where the system's vents are before choosing the line of the wall.
- Underfloor heating. If there are heating pipes in the floor, tell us before anything is fixed down, so the fixings can avoid them.
Sockets and switches in the new wall are wired by a qualified electrician before the second face is boarded.
The village and its conservation area
In June 2025 Gedling Borough Council adopted a new Gedling Village Conservation Area. That designation is chiefly about the outside of buildings, so on its own it doesn't normally affect a partition indoors. A listed house is the exception, as internal alterations need listed building consent.
Older houses ask for a little more patience than new plasterboard. Walls are rarely perfectly straight, so the end studs are scribed to follow them, the head plate is fixed into joists rather than old plaster, and the new wall is skimmed so its finish sits comfortably next to the original.
Get in touch
Ring 07877 353120, or email photos and rough measurements to Patchmeifyoucan@outlook.com. We are working seven days a week, 7am to 5pm.
