At an initial consultation we will visit your property and meet with you to discuss your project requirements in detail.
We take time to understand the brief that you have in terms of the space requirements, the style of design you envisage and what you are trying to achieve. The more information you can give us, the better we can understand your brief.
Following the consultation we will collate the information gathered and provide you with a detailed quotation to include all architectural services to deliver your design.
Most projects will require a level of surveying to produce drawings of the existing site and/or building, so we will take measurements to create an outline plan of the existing layout. Once we have the survey information we can produce the sketch scheme proposals to meet the brief.
Following the completion of a sketch scheme, we will then produce developed planning drawings, existing building and site drawings of the property from surveys, proposed external layout drawings as well as others where necessary.
Design and Access Statement's will also be producted, where necessary. This will help summarise the proposal from concept to developed design.
We will also prepare technical drawings with sufficient detail for a building firm to construct the proposal. These drawings contain the specific information required to obtain building regulations approval for your project.
Once the project design and plans have been finalised, Solway Architectural Services Ltd will prepare a full planning application and submit all documentation on your behalf.
Once submitted we will aim to keep in regular contact with the Local Authority via meetings, phone calls, emails and keep record and pass forward information to provide you feedback on the application as it progresses through the determination period
Typically, planning consent takes 8 – 11 weeks including our time to prepare drawings and application.
Once planning permission has been granted the next stage of any project is to begin the technical design stage. At this stage we will produce a set of building regulations drawings and other materials for submission to the local authority or private building control inspector.
This information includes: application forms, technical and detailed design drawings and written documents.
Once submitted we can usually very quickly look to seek conditional approval or at least gain an understanding of whether or not the application will be successful, sometime allowing works to begin with confidence prior to approval.
Building Regulation Approval can take up to 8 weeks to gain following a submission.