Developer

Get to a decision sooner.

Straight to a complete, valid submission. The delays that cost a programme are the avoidable ones, not the statutory clock.

A lead architect, start to finish.

A lead architect is involved from the first conversation to the last drawing. The team that starts your scheme stays with it, so nothing is passed down a chain.

Know the site before you commit to it.

Appraised properly, in the open, by someone who knows what a council needs to see and when the right answer is to push back.

A refusal is not the end of the site.

Nine homes at Oakridge Lynch, refused on eight grounds and allowed at appeal. Sometimes the better answer is a second application, and we will say which.

See the value your site is hiding.

Commercially minded on every call: the housing mix, the GDV, and which consultants actually earn their fee.

The fee has a way of finding itself back.

Not every time, and rarely the same way twice. More units, another storey, less circulation and more floor to sell, or a consultant you did not need to appoint. Usually one of them covers it.

Spend once the risk is down, not before.

Costs staged behind certainty. Every commitment sits behind the decision that justifies it, so nothing is spent on a scheme that has not earned it.

Biodiversity net gain

A habitat bank in Northamptonshire.

Dan Rickett, a director of the practice, owns it. BNG gets designed into the scheme from the start, not priced in at the end.

Let someone else hold the list.

From first appraisal to final discharge, every survey, report and condition is tracked for you. You are not the one chasing an ecologist in week nine.

Technical drawings a contractor can work from.

Full production information, through building regulations and onto site. We also take on consented and reserved matters schemes from other practices.

One team, from planning to completion.

Every RIBA stage under a single appointment. The team that wins the consent stays to deliver it, so nothing is lost in a handover.