Process FAQ
Can you handle the whole project?
Drawings + planning + building regs: yes. Build contracting: no — we recommend you tender to 3+ builders independently.
Drawings + planning + building regs: yes. Build contracting: no — we recommend you tender to 3+ builders independently.
We handle everything up to and including approvals: measured survey, planning drawings, the submission and negotiation, building regulations drawings. We do not build, and we do not take a percentage of the build cost.
Turnaround is 20 to 28 working days for the drawing stage, then the statutory periods: eight weeks for planning, five weeks for a full plans building control application.
Specialist reports — heritage, daylight and sunlight, arboricultural — are commissioned where the borough's validation list requires them.
We do not build, and we do not act as main contractor. That separation is intentional: a designer whose fee is a percentage of build cost has an interest in a larger build, and a designer who is also the builder has no independent voice when something on site is not what was approved.
The drawings and the beam schedule are what the builder prices and works from, and a full plans approval means they are pricing something already checked rather than something that may change. We answer contractor queries during construction and issue revisions where building control requires them.
A worked Harrow example of can you handle the whole project?: with 29 conservation areas — the Harrow on the Hill Conservation Area and the Pinner Village Conservation Area among the best known — London Borough of Harrow (Harrow Council) sees can you handle the whole project? constantly, and there is no borough-wide Article 4 direction, so permitted development generally survives outside conservation areas. Where can you handle the whole project? pushes a Harrow scheme out of permitted development, the route becomes a £548 application decided in 8 weeks rather than a £249 prior approval in 6 weeks. is governed by the Town and Country Planning Act 1990, the GPDO 2015 and the Building Regulations 2010.
| Complete package | |
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| Essentials package | |
| Loft package | |
| Structural calculations | |
| Party wall services | |
| Complete turnaround | 20–28 working days |
No. We take the scheme through approvals and support the contractor, but we do not build or act as main contractor.
No.
We can point you at contractors who have built our drawings, but we take no commission.
Pick a slot that suits you. No obligation and no sales pressure, just straight answers on your planning route.
