Where you normally cannot build
Green Belt & replacement homes
Replacing or rebuilding a house in the Green Belt, where policy decides the size before the design does.
Local architects
Private homes
Your home. The planning handled.
What we design
See all our work Explore the homes.
One-off houses
Self-build & bespoke homes
A house designed around your plot, your brief and the way you want to live.
Permitted development
Class Q conversions
Prior approval to convert an agricultural building, when the building and the site qualify.
Sensitive settings
Listed & conservation homes
Listed buildings and homes in conservation areas, with both consents run together.
More from what you have
Extensions & remodelling
Extending and reworking a house, or bringing an old outbuilding into it, so the home finally fits.
Agricultural to residential
Barn conversions
Redundant farm buildings turned into homes, by prior approval or by full planning.
Open countryside
Paragraph 84 homes
The exceptional-quality route to a new house in open countryside, tested honestly before you commit.
Selected homes
All projects Take a closer look.
Rugby / extension
Ashlawn Road
A family home on the edge of Rugby extended and remodelled, with a protected bat roost resolved and the ecology condition discharged 23 days early.
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Coventry / replacement house
A replacement house
A 14,041 sq ft replacement family home of eight bedrooms, consented in a Coventry conservation area after the design was reworked with the council.
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Solihull / Class Q
Green Gate Barns
A redundant steel-framed farm building converted into two homes, approved in 43 days.
View projectWorking with us
Discuss your project What you can expect.
Getting started
Know where you stand early.
A clear read on what your site will take, before you spend on drawings you may not need.
Direct access
A lead architect, start to finish.
A lead architect is involved from the first conversation to the last drawing. The team that starts your home stays with it, so nothing is passed down a chain.
Planning judgement
Know what the site will allow.
Constraints read properly and in the open: what is listed, what is protected, and what the council will actually accept.
Risk management
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.
Coordination
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 delivery
Drawings your builder can work from.
Full production information, through building regulations and onto site, so what gets built matches what you were shown.
One appointment
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.
In good company.
“Dan listened carefully to our brief and as a result his very first proposals and creative sketches needed little modification as we moved from concepts to planning approval and final sign off… We felt the whole Rickett team were behind us… A great job and a firm we can unreservedly recommend.”
Private client · a bespoke new home
2,500+ schemes · 56 years · nationwide