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peter richards

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Councils are really fussy these days. Time was when the homeowner could sling summat together and that would be fine. OTOH, it does provide work for us, and I've heard rumblings of calls to make councils insist that applicants use an actual architect rather than just some local guy who draws plans.

 

I presume they want a location plan with red outline, a site plan with red outline, building plans and elevations, both existing and proposed?

 

They will want to know proposed materials, overall height, Gross External area or footprint, distances from boundaries, that sort of stuff. They will also notifiy Building Control and probably send you application forms for that as well, depending on the project.

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I have found though that many of the architects plans have to be altered when the design calcs have to be done, simply due to the architect not having much of a clue when it comes to structural design. They also draw the job out (if you pardon the pun) for much longer than necessary to provide a reason for their inflated fees.

 

Oh, and it's usually a 'local guy' that is commissioned by said architects to do the calcs as they're cheap, and quick!

 

Just my thruppennies worth.

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I have found though that many of the architects plans have to be altered when the design calcs have to be done, simply due to the architect not having much of a clue when it comes to structural design. They also draw the job out (if you pardon the pun) for much longer than necessary to provide a reason for their inflated fees.

 

Oh, and it's usually a 'local guy' that is commissioned by said architects to do the calcs as they're cheap, and quick!

 

Just my thruppennies worth.

 

Scandalous!

Architects do not stretch things out to justify their fees, they do things properly and that by necessity may take more time. That is a serious allegation to make against a long-standing profession, suffice to say if someone said that about me in public or in a meeting they would be looking at the thick end of a slander case. When I look in any residential street and see the morass of poorly designed and unsympathetically proportioned extensions, I do despair that people don't care enough about their own houses to get a proper job done. However a quick £400 for some basic plans will always appeal to many.

 

Any decent architect should be able to do basic structural calcs, but may well prefer to get an actual engineer to do them, particularly for insurance reasons, but even so, should allow sufficent space in their design for structural variations.

I could tell some stories about Structural Engineers who make mistakes too.

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