Getting planning consent?

If you decide to go ahead with the scheme, we will prepare a planning submission. This can be either an outline or detailed planning application. Depending on the outcome of the feasibility study, and assuming your intention is to go ahead with the development, we would generally recommend going straight to a detailed planning application. This requires detailed design work and drawings, discussions with planners, and production of materials councils typically ask for, such as design statements and traffic plans.

Our charges from this point on are related to construction costs. As we are generally using our standard housetypes or other building types for this kind of development, our fee rates are likely to be lower than the RIBA standard fee scale.

Separate planning application charges are payable to the local authority, which vary by authority, but usually relate to the number of units.