We used Urbane Design to help us get our Coach House in W4 from a 2 bedroom to a 3 bedroom house with the aid of a roof lift to achieve adequite headroom in the loft space. This was always going to be challenging with regards to planning consent; we were told by other architects that the council would not allow a change in pitch height and they didnt believe that it would get planning consent.
Robert Speight from Ubane design had a different attiude towards this from the start and attended 3 pre-planning meetings with me to make sure the council were happy before we submitted our plans. Planning consent was achieved by the aid of some good design changes by Rob to over come issues such as over looking neighbouring properties.
Once planning was achieved, Rob helped us with finding a builder that could take on this project. He gave us the details of builders that he had worked with previously but also suggested that we get quote from a building company of our own choice so that we could compare all quotes.
We decided to go with one of Robs suggested builders. They have done a fanastic job from start to finish and I believe this is partly due to the weekly site meeting's that Rob arranged to discuss work completed and work to be done.
To conclude, we would highly recommend Urbane Design Architect from planning through to completion of building work.
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