If you own a home in the UK you might be aware of something called permitted development. It's the right to make modest alterations or...

I have been a self employed Architect in the UK since 2009. I specialise in altering and extending private homes. One thing all my...

So, you got planning permission for your extension, or your new house, well done. Are you all set to start construction? No, and you are...

The construction industry is one of the first places to experience inflation, we saw this coming well before most regular people in the...

I have been a self employed Architect in the UK since 2009, focusing exclusively on private, domestic clients most of whom want to alter...

Four things that will ruin your chances of getting planning approval If anyone tells you they can guarantee getting planning permission approved in the UK, they are either lying to you or they don’t understand how the system works. Ive been a self employed Architect in the UK since 2009, specialising in altering and extending private homes. In that time Ive lodged 120 planning applications and only 8 were refused. Some people think the UK planning system is broken, or flawed,

How much do I charge? I write this blog about the reality of altering and extending private homes because that’s what I do in my day job. And in my day job, one of the most important decisions I ever made was to publish my fees on my website. This gets the whole messy discussion of, what it costs to hire an architect, off the table. My fees are public and I don't negotiate. A potential client, looking at my website, can either take it or leave it. In this post I am going to

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Is your house too small. Do you need more space? Are you thinking about building an extension to solve that problem. Stop, maybe you...

In the UK and Ireland we have a special word to describe the worst kind of building contractors. Cowboys. A few years ago I helped a...

Ive made several videos looking at the cost of building house extensions in the UK. Its a topic that I endlessly discuss with my clients,...