Our Get Set Package

We offer three levels – small, medium and large – each with a fixed fee, with a 50% payment required up-front. Details of what is included, what is excluded and the process are included below.

What is included:

• A Briefing meeting to discuss your aspirations for the project
  
  
• We will visit your home for a walk-around and conversation
         
• A review of local planning application submission requirements to check if any specialist reports will be required to support your application
  
  
• We will advise you of any other specialist consultants that might be required to support your project, including structural engineers, service engineers and party wall surveyors
  
  
• We will carefully select the right external materials for your project
  
  
• Two design meetings are included, to review the bespoke designs as they progress
  
  
• A concept design document, with our initial thoughts and sketches
  
  
• A set of architectural planning application drawings and a design statement
  
  
• A technical sense check – to make sure your project is buildable (note that building control and technical drawings for construction are not included)
  
  
• We will submit the planning application on your behalf.

What is excluded:

• The planning application fee
  
  
• Planning application negotiations or the work to discharge planning conditions
  
  
• Cost consultancy
  
  
• Specialist reports and documents that might be required for the planning application, such as an ecological assessment (bats, birds and great crested newts), flood risk assessment or dark sky’s lighting assessment
  
  
• Technical drawings and specifications for tendering your project or for construction
  
  
• Building control application
  
  
• Interior design and coordination (kitchens, bathrooms, lighting, joinery and finishes).

The Process

The process is simple, before we start (this bit is free) you have a 30 minute call on Zoom with us to talk through your project, check we’re a good fit, and confirm which size bracket you fall into. Following our call we will confirm our discussion, we will put together an appointment agreement for signing, and we will send you an invoice for the 50% up-front payment. When all of this is in hand we will get going with a simple three-step process... 

One
We will meet you face to face and you can show us around your home, and with our help you commission a measured survey. You will need a ‘measured survey’ undertaken by a surveyor, we have included a measured survey fee within the packages noted above. We will undertake our planning desktop study and will advise you on whether additional specialist reports are required to support your planning application, if they are we will point you in the direction of some great people who can help. We will also begin sketching. 

Two
We meet again, back on Zoom or in person at our studio if preferred, to explain our ideas through drawings and images, which we then email over for you to digest. If they don’t make you smile, we keep drawing until you do. See Taking shape for more on this. With the concept design agreed, we will move to the final stage. 

Three
We will prepare and send you your draft Planning drawings, for your approval before incorporating one final round of comments. We will send you an invoice for the remaining 50% of our fee before your Planning application is submitted. In order to make the submission any specialist reports will be required. We will keep in touch with the Planning Department throughout the process to smooth its way towards approval, and we keep you in the loop. We talk about all this in Getting Planning.