Design With a Clear Route to Planning.

Planning should inform the architecture from the beginning

A planning application is stronger when the design has been developed with an understanding of scale, massing, neighbouring relationships, daylight, heritage context, access and local character.

Make the design rationale clear

A coherent submission should make it easy to understand why the architecture takes the form it does and how it responds to the site.

Planning strategy for developers

For development sites, planning strategy must remain connected to the commercial brief. A theoretically larger option may not be the strongest proposition if it creates materially greater risk.