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Small Developments

Various schemes at different stages. Different briefs, different constraints, the same approach — design decisions made to protect the scheme's commercial performance, not just its appearance.

Urban Exchange

Mixed use · 8 units

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Eight apartments above commercial space.

 

Appointed at Stage 4 to take the consented scheme to a fully coordinated tender package — protecting the design quality that secured planning while making sure it could actually be built to budget.

Four Townhouses

Residential · 4 units

Four upmarket townhouses taken from planning consent through to tender.

 

The focus was buildability and specification quality — the two things that determine whether townhouses sell at the price the developer needs.

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Land Uplift 

8 units

Outline Planning Outline planning application for eight dwellings on a greenfield site in Rushden.

 

Working alongside a specialist planning consultant, our role is the architectural framework that makes the planning case — and protects the developer's position before reserved matters are committed.

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