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An additional Advertising Fee (may be necessary where neighbouring land is vacant).

Statutory costs payable to Local Authority.

 

 

Planning Consent is Generlly not required. However in  Conservation areas ands for dewllings of historic importance, Planning will need to be applied for in line with Listed building Consent. The fee is as per an extension: currwntly £202

 

 

Architect's fees. payable on completion of Design Stages as described in the offer and terms and conditions:

All inclusive (excluding on-site Inspections):

Drawings and Planning Application); Building Warrant Drawings, minor structural calculations, Heat loss calculations,  and online Application (service only)

Structural Engineer SER certificate / Calculations (where required by Local authority)

Civil Engineer: soil reports etc. (as may be required by Local Authority

For purpose of estimating Building Warrant Application costs Local authorities will accepts Construction costs of around £600 per square metre of conversion. These are based on main contract costs  published by the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (R.I.C.S.) Such costs do not take into account any discounts which a builder might offer.

 

Estimate of bulding costs  given below are based on our experience of undertaken projects (as dated at  05-04-2020) 

Please note: these are approximate stimates based on the internal square metre of a standard garage conversion into havitable space.

 

Please Note: statutory costs are not inlcuded in the Architect's fees.

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 from £450

For a double storey extension additional consultants costs, may include:

PLEASE NOTE: "Permitted Development" means that in most  cases  a formal planning Application is not required.fpr a garage  which is attached and forms part of the building dwelling.

 

Whether Planning is required or not, the same number of drawings require to be carried out: the Architet's fee is as above.

 

 

Building Warrant Application  costs are  based on a sliding scale depending on the construction costs of the conversion: see ready reconer below (eg. Garage measuring 12m2 internal area = 12x £600= £7200

 

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£245

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Design Costs

Our design costs are very competative: in many instances our combined  planning and warrant fees are less than what Local Authorities charge you,  just for administration.

 

 

How do we do this?

We have unparalelled experience and make use of all modern computer tools, and keep our overheads very low.

Our efficient team can generate 3D and 2D graphics within a couple of days. and a whole designed and detailed project specification takes about a week.

But above all, our costs are driven down by our understanding that your hard earned money gets the best possible deal.

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