White City has reinvented itself from the BBC’s old West London base into one of the capital’s fastest-growing media, technology and life-sciences districts, and that mix of big converted broadcast buildings and new campus space shapes every lease-end project we run in W12. The area’s occupiers — advertising and media groups, technology firms, fashion and retail head offices, and the science and innovation tenants drawn to Imperial College’s White City campus — tend to take large, heavily fitted-out floors, which means substantial reinstatement when they move on. London Dilaps Ltd is a dilapidations specialist, not a general contractor fitting lease-end work around refurbishment jobs, and White City sits alongside our existing West London coverage in Hammersmith and Chiswick. We work directly with tenants, landlords and surveyors to price, programme and complete the full scope under one fixed-price contract, with one person accountable from first site visit to final sign-off. We also work in Hammersmith and Paddington.
White City’s commercial core is built around a handful of large, distinctive estates. White City Place — the redeveloped former BBC Media Village — supplies substantial Grade A floors and has drawn media, advertising, technology and consumer-brand occupiers into refurbished and new buildings. Television Centre, the BBC’s old headquarters redeveloped into a mixed estate of offices, studios, members’ club and homes, adds character-led commercial space with broadcast heritage. Imperial College’s White City campus brings a growing science, innovation and life-sciences cluster, with lab-enabled and research space alongside conventional offices, and Westfield London anchors the retail and leisure end of W12. Around these sit older office and studio stock through Shepherd’s Bush and along the Wood Lane corridor. Because so much of the space was fitted out to a high media or lab standard and is institutionally owned and managed, lease-end schedules in White City tend to involve significant strip-out and detailed, firmly-enforced reinstatement.
The obligation you face at handover depends heavily on how the space was fitted out. Media and creative occupiers typically install extensive Cat B fit-out — feature ceilings, bespoke joinery, studios, screening and edit suites, branded reception and AV — all of which has to be stripped out and the floor returned to Cat A base-build: suspended ceilings, lighting, raised access floors, power and data distribution and finishes to landlord specification, with full M&E re-commissioning. Lab-enabled and life-sciences space around the Imperial campus carries heavier, more specialist reinstatement around services, containment and specialist finishes. Whichever applies, the high standard of the original fit-out usually means the reinstatement scope is larger than in a conventional office, so accurate pricing matters. We read the lease and any licences for alterations before we price, and we challenge schedule items that fall outside your contractual liability rather than costing the schedule as served. Carrying out the works directly normally lands at a lower net figure than a cash settlement — and closes your liability on handover.
White City’s estates are large, managed and busy, and access is controlled accordingly. White City Place and Television Centre are centrally-managed, multi-tenant estates with goods-lift bookings, dock slots and out-of-hours windows set by the estate team, and the Wood Lane corridor — with Westfield traffic, the BBC’s continuing presence and heavy footfall around White City, Wood Lane and Shepherd’s Bush stations — dictates when a strip-out lorry can realistically load. The Imperial campus adds its own estate management and access controls around live research space. We plan every W12 project around these realities — booking egress into early-morning, evening or weekend slots, handling estate inductions and permits-to-work directly, and coordinating with building and estate management and neighbouring occupiers so the works never disrupt the wider estate. Our teams are across West London regularly, with natural coverage spanning White City, Shepherd’s Bush, Hammersmith, Chiswick, Acton and Notting Hill.
Every project starts with a proper survey of the space against the served schedule and the lease behind it — not a desktop estimate. That matters in White City, where a heavily fitted-out media or lab floor can hide a much larger strip-out scope than a walk-through suggests. From the survey we produce an itemised, fixed-price proposal and a programme built around your handover date. We manage the parts that slow most tenants down — estate induction, permits-to-work, multi-tenant liaison and surveyor sign-off — directly, so you keep control of specification, quality and programme rather than handing it to the landlord’s appointed contractor. At completion we run a pre-handover inspection, snag anything a surveyor would flag, compile full photographic documentation, and deliver a compliance pack that closes the account cleanly. One point of contact runs the job from first call to final sign-off.
White City’s fit-outs are among the most heavily specified in London — broadcast studios, edit suites, branded creative space and lab-enabled research floors — and returning them to base-build is a bigger, more technical job than a conventional office reinstatement. This is not a market to hand to a refurbishment contractor learning dilapidations on your job. Dilapidations, strip-out and Cat A reinstatement are the whole of what we do, not a sideline, and White City sits within our established West London coverage, so we mobilise without a travel premium. We bring £5 million public and employers’ liability cover, experienced site teams and a documented handover on every contract. Our direct-to-contractor pricing typically comes in well below the landlord’s contractor on like-for-like scope, and because we price and deliver the physical works rather than negotiating a cash figure, your liability closes on handover instead of staying open for years.
Our specialist office dilapidations service covers the full lease-end repair and compliance programme for White City & Shepherd’s Bush tenants — reviewing your lease, agreeing scope with your surveyor, and delivering repairs, redecoration, reversal of tenant alterations and schedule-of-condition compliance under a single fixed-price contract, from first assessment to final handover.
We deliver complete office reinstatement for offices in the area, returning floors to base-build in line with landlord specification — suspended ceilings, lighting, raised access flooring, power and data, decorations and all make-good works, to the standard local landlords and their surveyors expect on a
Our office strip-out services in London cover full removal of tenant fit-out — partitions, ceilings, raised floors, kitchens, joinery, data cabling and M&E — planned around local building access windows and multi-tenant goods lifts, and finished ready for landlord inspection or full Cat A reinstatement.
Yes. We work across White City Place, Television Centre and the Imperial White City campus, along the Wood Lane corridor and through Shepherd’s Bush. Coverage extends naturally into Hammersmith, Chiswick, Acton and Notting Hill — alongside our existing West London location pages.
As a broad guide, end-of-lease strip-out and Cat A reinstatement runs from about £18 to £32 per square foot, with heavily fitted-out media floors and lab-enabled space at the upper end because the strip-out scope is larger. We provide a free site visit and a fixed-price quotation for every project, so you know the exact figure before committing.
Yes. Media and creative fit-outs — feature ceilings, studios, edit suites, bespoke joinery, branded reception and AV — are exactly the kind of heavy Cat B scope we strip out routinely, returning the floor to landlord Cat A base-build with full M&E re-commissioning and the documentation the surveyor requires. The high original spec usually means a larger scope, which is why we survey before we price.
As much as possible — the cleanest outcomes come from tenants who engage us 6 to 12 months out, and on a heavily fitted-out White City floor early engagement helps us plan the strip-out. The minimum practical notice is around eight weeks, by which point we can still mobilise a fixed-price contract. If you’re inside eight weeks, call us first and we’ll tell you what’s realistic.
In most White City cases, doing the works directly is cheaper and cleaner than a cash settlement — landlords’ figures are usually padded with contingency, fees and lost-rent allowances, and completing the works closes your liability on handover. Settlement can favour the tenant where the landlord is refurbishing or redeveloping the floor, or where the lease ends in under eight weeks. Our free site visit gives you a fixed-price number to weigh against any offer.
Both are large, centrally-managed estates with goods-lift bookings, dock slots and out-of-hours windows set by the estate team, and the Wood Lane corridor adds Westfield and station traffic. We sequence strip-out and deliveries around those windows and handle estate inductions and permits-to-work directly, so the job runs without disrupting neighbouring tenants or the wider estate.
Yes. Lab-enabled and life-sciences fit-outs carry heavier reinstatement obligations around services, containment and specialist finishes. We strip out and make good specialist installations, return the M&E and floor to landlord base-build, and provide the test certificates and O&M documentation the surveyor requires, coordinating any specialist decommissioning within the single managed contract.
Yes. Most of our work is for commercial tenants delivering end-of-lease works, but we also reinstate floors for W12 landlords readying space for re-letting, and we partner with building surveyors who need a reliable delivery contractor. We don’t act for landlord and tenant on the same dispute, but we’re happy to be introduced by either side.
Have a White City Place, Television Centre or Wood Lane reinstatement to price? Get a free, fixed-price dilapidations quote before you hand back your office — we’ll review your obligations and tell you exactly where you stand.