Every Great Design Begins With An Even Greater Story.

At the very beginning of any project we work with you, your ideas and aspirations for. For those who have never carried out a home extension project before and need help creating a project brief, we can assist you with that. For those who have experience and have a good understanding of what you want and need and understand whats involved, you can send us your project brief and we can get started on your project. Having a good understanding of the design and build process and a well documented project brief helps solidify your ideas, provides direction for the design of your project and avoids wasting time and money. Once we have understood your project brief we will visit your property to complete an extensive measured survey, take photographs and identify any potential site issues early on. At the end of this stage, we will all have a really good understanding of your project, opportunities and constraints. At the end of this stage you will receive an accurate set of existing house drawings including a site plan, floor plans and elevation drawings.

Once we have gone through and defined your project and have a good understanding of your project requirements, we can start working on the concept designs and look at different floor plan arrangements and try different designs to make sure that the overall look, form, function, style and appearance is in keeping with your original idea. By considering all aspects of your brief, opportunities and constraints we will be able to offer design ideas that can be built and that provides you with options and considerations. We will send you different options to think about and we’ll work with you to refine them into something that you will be really happy with.

This is where we prepare and assemble the final design and drawings needed to make a  planning application, with meticulous care and attention to important details. We understand residential planning rules and regulations and in most cases know what supporting documentation is needed and can help obtain any additional statements if required. A copy of the final design can also be forwarded to an independent Quantity Surveyor if required, to assess and provide a preliminary cost analysis to establish if the final design at this stage meets your cost requirements. We can then consider any changes to the design to ensure the project is in line with your cost expectations. Once the final design is approved by yourself, we will make a planning application on your behalf and monitor the progress and keep you informed of any updates.

This is the stage where you need to call on our expertise as these drawings are much more complex and detailed. We specialise in the production of these drawings and details to ensure that the project is ‘build-able’.  Our drawings will ensure that your builder has all the information for the structure so that an accurate tender submission could be achieved at this stage if required. We will make sure that you meet all your statutory obligations and that your project is compliant with all current rules and regulations. We will meet to explain the technical design to you and once approved we will apply for your building regulations full plans approval notice. Once a building regulations application has been submitted, we take this opportunity to consider any Party Wall Act matters and assemble all relevant party wall notices for you to pass onto your neighbours with the aim to obtain their consent prior to any works starting on site.