PLANNING PERMISSION
Providing Everything You Need
PLANNING CONSULTANTS
Ice Arc Design is a national consulting firm with professional town planners and professional architects throughout the UK to assist our clients locally. Our knowledgeable planning consultants are available to assist you whether you want to determine whether you need planning permission, need pre-planning advice, a feasibility study, or need support with an application. Starting with a free, no-obligation consultation to go through your project's requirements and address your initial queries, we can offer everything you need to gain planning clearance. Visit our Portfolio to see a few of our earlier planning submissions.
Pre-Planning Advice
Concerned about obtaining planning authorization for your project? To get you the information you need in a day, our town planners can do a planning appraisal to determine whether you need planning approval, the specifications for an application, the expenses, and the chances of success. Your local authority may not require a pre-application, which would save you time, money, and hassle.
TOWN PLANNERS
All planning permit issues are well-versed in by our staff town planners. Many of our town planners have experience working as enforcement officers and planning officers for a variety of municipal planning agencies as well as the private sector. We collaborate with every local planning authority in the UK and are familiar with many of the personnel, so we have a comprehensive understanding of the planning process from the standpoints of both applicants and local authorities.
HouseHolder Planning Applications
For the majority of homeowners, requesting planning clearance is intimidating and perplexing. Our in-house architects and town planners collaborate closely, so we can handle the full application procedure from beginning to end, saving you time, money, and frustration. We will give you the best chance of getting clearance whether you are thinking about building a new house, an addition, a loft conversion, or a garage conversion.
COMMERCIAL PLANNING APPLICATIONS
Our town planners will assist you in navigating the UK planning system, whether you are thinking about a change in use or a significant planning application for hundreds of new homes. By their very nature, large-scale developments are more complicated and expensive, therefore it's crucial to have expert pre-application counsel to assess the viability, expenses, and chances of success before you commit. If your development is practical, we'll work with you to reach your objectives.
LISTED BUILDINGS AND CONSERVATION AREAS
Any work done to a listed building without first obtaining listed building authorization and, in many situations, planning permission is illegal. Conservation areas frequently contain listed buildings. Planning policies are typically significantly tougher in order to protect important historic and cultural assets. Planning applications can be far more complicated and challenging to be granted in certain regions since it is much more likely that permitted development rights have been deleted. A non-executive government agency called Historic England is in charge of maintaining the UK's towns, villages, and other notable historic sites.
PLANNING STATEMENTS
Every planning application must include planning statements, which are a key and crucial component. Our town planners are skilled at creating compelling design and access statements, heritage statements, and planning statements to support your application. Although obtaining planning clearance cannot be guaranteed, your chances are increased if a solid supporting statement is submitted with your architect's designs.
Planning Applications
A common misconception is that there is only one kind of planning application. There are numerous, each suited to a different job or situation, and each is rated differently. Our town planners can decide which application type will give you the best chance of obtaining planning clearance for your project, prepare it, and submit it.
DESIGN VARIATIONS AFTER APPROVAL
If you have had planning permission granted for your development it is important to note that the council have approved the exact design that was submitted. Changes to the design can be made following approval, however additional consent may be required depending on the extent of the proposed changes. Building something that does not match the approved design can risk retrospective planning issues or enforcement.
Estimation Service
Our construction estimating services help you to provide accurate and professional building work estimates, quotations and tenders for clients.We offer affordable, labour and material estimating services to anyone involved in domestic building. We convert building drawings using in-house developed software and industry-leading paperless quantification systems. We specialise in domestic extensions, conversions, refurbishments and new dwellings.
Project Management
We provide clients with high-end residential property construction, home renovation, and commercial building schemes. We also work with clients from the design stage all the way through construction management.
We can ensure that projects comply with Health and Safety Regulations, Building Regulations, and any other applicable authorities.
Building Regulations
Building regulations drawings and approval, as well as structural engineering calculations, may be required depending on the scope of your work. Technical aspects such as materials, wall thickness, and the number of steel beams necessary are addressed in building code drawings. To verify that your development complies with all standards, is safe, and will stand the test of time.We need your architect drawings that show the design in order to quote and prepare building regulations drawings. From the planning stage, the architectural design will define exactly what is required for building rules. The volume and complexity of the design will determine the cost of building regulations drawings. Large and simple may be inexpensive, whereas small and intricate may be costly.It is strongly advised that you should not pay for building regulations drawings until your development has received planning approval.
