APPROVED PLANS LIMITED

Approved Plans Limited have been established for 5 years designing and offering a planning service for all, we have a large clientele from local development authorities, property developers, celebrities to your normal home owner. We have expanded to 4 offices during the years which cover all London, Cambridge, Essex and Hertfordshire boroughs to accommodate for a more effective service to our clientele. All our staff are fully qualified with minimum of 10 years experience in the profession.

Approved Plans Limited has achieved a successful business customer relation by putting the client first, we look at the client needs and treat you how you would like to be treated, without you we would not be in business today.

We take great pride in reassuring and explaining on all stages to step by step procedures on how our company’s policy’s works from the first survey to the final approved decision.

We hear the same storey time and time again from clients concerns over cost, value and service. This has often left homeowners feeling daunted by traditional architectural practices who offer confusing, all-inclusive packages that provide little flexibility and tend not to be available for small renovation projects.

Approved Plans Limited has revolutionised traditional architect's working methods and developed a unique fixed fee money-back service that makes architectural design accessible to all home improvement projects regardless of their size, complexity or budget. By us passing our confidence to you we get results. No pass No fee that’s our policy – we deliver survey appointment times within 48 hours – drawings produced in 2 working days – we act as your agent free of charge – we design in the comforts of your own home - we organise and submit planning applications to borough councils – we offer like no other company a full money back guarantee on your proposed dream design. So spread the word ! ! and let us take your project on board.

Step by Step breakdown on a typical job and what included for your price:

-         Free internal and external laser measured survey of your property with photos taken of all external house details and proposed alterations sketched up on site.

-         Full set of existing and proposed Plans / Elevations of your property on scaled A3 sheets x2 copy’s and an electronic PDF set issued to client.

-         OS Base map of site @ A4 size – Scale 1:1250 showing site boundary extent.

-         Applications forms for planning permission issued to client for signing.

-         Free agent service included for dealing with issuing planning pack to planning borough office and seeing proposed project through for approval stage.

-         Free advice and referral’s of recommended builders to start and manage your project at a very high standard and competitive price that suits your pocket.

-         £100 CASH BACK offer to client’s on any referred new design jobs which are introduced to Approved Plans Limited planning and design service.

As from the 1^st October 2008 all councils in the UK have changed their planning laws on loft conversions. We now can design any loft design that suits your requirements. 40m3 is the bench mark for terraced homes and 50m3 for Semi’s and detached properties on a proposed loft design under permitted development, so hip to gable with rear dormer is going to be the future. We will design your new dream bedroom plus en-suite for a price that will increase the value of your home by 25%.

Side extensions are getting more popular with more and more home owners getting more familiar with the potentials of owning a side plot. With building costs costing slightly more than a single storey extension proposed designs are going up all the way, making in some cases the original house twice the size. One rule of thumb, double storey extensions need to be 1m away from your side boundary line so what ever space is left is the new width of your new extension.

Rear extensions are our main field as demand is high. Extensions to the rear suits any house were if it’s a terraced, semi, detached or bungalow all designs that are put forward to councils are approved and passed with flying colours in 8 weeks. If you need a larger kitchen, Living room, dining room or downstairs bathroom then a rear design is for you. 

New house builds are for home owners that are fortunate in having spare land space that can be used as a new house development. Adequate rear amenity space of 50m2 is needed within your boundary (this does not include the house foot print), parking of two cars is needed within the boundary (usually to the front of the property), and adequate habitable room sizes are taken into account. By us planning and designing your project we will design and pass your job through and get that Granted permission stamp on all drawings.

With councils new laws garage conversions are coming up all of the time, we area being told the same storey over and over again that their existing garage is two small for their cars, We can’t open the car doors! So the family car is just sitting outside on the drive with the garage being used as storage room. By changing this disused garage space at very little cost we will create a new additional room for your needs.

Thinking of selling your house, well stop just there dividing your house into flats and selling them off one by one will 100% give you more in return with small refurbishment costs. This is getting more and more popular with investors. Councils consider this change of use if there is no more than 20% of houses on the street already been converted, the house in mind has off street parking or car parking space’s for 3 car parking spaces. If this comes in within your category then why no go for a change in use.