Feasibility Designs

At Trower Davies, we can provide clients with initial feasibility designs for a broad spectrum of residential projects. From simple thumbnail sketches indicating what might be possible, to fully informative feasibility proposals showing house type locations, garage, parking provisions and likely highway network layouts.

The feasibility side of our services can consist of development reviews looking at possible options and alternatives on any particular scheme. The aim of this process is to aid the client in determining whether a project is commercially viable.

In addition, alternative feasibility designs on the same site can assess the merits of one scheme against another, identifying potential economic advantages from one scheme to another. The feasibility stage identifies the potential value of a scheme allowing negotiations to take place between client and landowner.

The feasibility stage also allows early discussions with the Local Planning Authority to assess the chances of obtaining planning consent.

Planning Design Stage

The team at Trower Davies also offer further design services with a more detailed and precise approach taken to finalise the feasibility work already undertaken. This might take the form of specific designs and detailed sketches to allow the client to review and approve the designs as they evolve.

These initial design sketches can be used as a basis to prepare detailed planning design drawings, potentially for submission with a detailed Planning Application to obtain statutory consents. They can also be used as supporting documents in large schemes, or as indicative details in Outline Applications.

The Planning design stage will relate to specific projects and can include single individual house designs, or groups of houses that interact and complement each other on a particular site. We also undertake multi-occupant designs such as apartment blocks, either as standalone designs or integrated into larger housing schemes that contain a range of housing sizes or form part of a mixed-use development. We can provide designs for one off house types or prepare designs for larger projects where a mix of housing styles are required.

The design service includes preparing site layouts indicating the house types plotted in context with each other and how they might fit within existing developments. The layout design work reflects our detailed knowledge of spatial standards, highway/pedestrian layouts, public and private amenity and where necessary incorporates specific design requirements of the Client, Local Authority, or other controlling bodies.

Planning Applications

As part of our planning services, we can either work along-side Specialist Planning Consultants or act alone in the preparation and submission of Planning Applications for new developments. We provide supporting details for applications, including written reports such as Design and Access Statements. We are also able to act as Lead Design Consultants, where other specialist designers are involved in providing supporting details.