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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 

Residential · 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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