RIBA CHARTERED PRACTICE · WORTHING, WEST SUSSEX
THE FIRST STEP
Most people come to an architect with a question that sounds simple and is not: can we do this, will we get permission, and what will it cost to build? The Feasibility & Options Study answers all three, in writing, before you commit to a full design.
| Amount | |
|---|---|
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Professional fee |
£625 |
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VAT at 20% |
£125 |
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Total payable |
£750 |
The full amount is credited against your design fee if you appoint us within six months. If you decide not to go ahead, the report is yours to keep and use however you wish — including with another architect.
Planning is the part clients worry about most. It is also the part that is cheapest to get wrong early and most expensive to get wrong late.
Testing the planning position and the design direction first means that when you commit to a full design, you are committing to something we already have good reason to believe will work. We have 26 residential planning approvals to date, and one refusal, which was overturned on appeal. That record exists because we do this first, not because we are lucky.
It is not a planning application, and it is not a guarantee of permission — no one can offer that honestly. It is not a full design, and it is not a builder’s quotation. The build cost is indicative, and a builder pricing your actual drawings will give you a firmer figure later.
If you decide to proceed, the study becomes the starting point of the full design, and the study fee — £625 + VAT, £750 paid — is credited in full against your design fee.
We will give you a fixed price for the design work at that point, based on the scope the study has established — not an estimate that moves later.
