Outdoor kitchens & alfresco in Hampton Park.
Hampton Park is tighter-block country — mostly 350–550m² builds from the late 1990s and 2000s. The brief here is usually compact and clever: a properly built-in BBQ wing on a retrofitted alfresco, often with a gas-converted pizza oven rather than wood-fired so the smoke doesn’t bother the neighbours.
The Hampton Park alfresco story.
Tight-block design, compact kitchens.
The average Hampton Park rear yard is 80–130m² after the house footprint, garage, side setbacks and the obligatory dog-run along the fence. We design the kitchen wing to be compact and useful rather than huge and unused — typically a 3–4m run with a 4-burner built-in BBQ, single-bowl sink, bar fridge, and 600mm of benchtop overhang for prep space. Pizza oven goes in the corner if there is room, gas-convert rather than wood-fired so smoke goes straight up the flue without a six-hour drift over the neighbour’s washing line.
Boundary and side-setback realities.
Hampton Park boundary fence to rear wall is often 4–6m. A new roofed alfresco built right to the fence is fine in some Casey zones (3m height limit at the boundary, Building Regulations 2018 Reg 79) but a planning permit may be needed if it exceeds those envelope rules. We check this at the consultation — usually we can design within the envelope and avoid the planning permit.
The gas line upgrade.
A lot of late-1990s Hampton Park homes were piped with a single undersized gas line for the cooktop, hot water and old space heater. A built-in BBQ at 50–65MJ/h plus a gas pizza oven at 20– 25MJ/h needs a proper line upsize from the meter, sometimes a meter upgrade from Multinet. We sort all of that and issue the AS 5601 compliance certificate at handover.
Typical Hampton Park jobs.
- Compact BBQ wing on existing pergola — Beefeater Discovery 1100S, sink, bar fridge, polished concrete benchtop ($18K–$25K)
- New Colorbond gabled alfresco + full kitchen + gas pizza oven ($30K–$42K)
- Retrofit kitchen into existing alfresco — tear-out old setup, full new cabinetry + benchtop + appliances ($22K–$32K)
- Lynbrook townhouse compact build — 2.4m bar wing with kegerator, sink, dual-zone wine fridge ($14K–$20K)
- Gas line upgrade + meter upsize + BBQ install only ($4K–$8K)
Other service areas.
Free Hampton Park design consultation.
Tight-block design experience. Gas line capacity assessed at the visit.