Shorplans Architectural Services

Whether you are experienced developers or have a one off plot for your own home, we can set about tackling the increasingly complex planning and building regulations hurdles. We provide fast efficient planning, design and structural calculation services for your loft conversion or extension providing a clear and low cost structural design service. We provide a local professional design service for residential projects, preparing drawings for submission to the Local Authority for Planning and Building Regulations approvals.

Established in 2010, Shorplans Architectural Services was founded by Managing Director Carl Shorter, an Architectural Designer with over 20 years experience has excellent Planning, Design and Construction knowledge. To this day Shorplans provides informed honest and realistic advice together with a comprehensive first class Architectural service. Shorplans, a RIBA & ARB Chartered Architects Practice has vast experience in the residential sector, with services ranging from Planning, Building Control, Party Wall Surveys, Structural Engineer, Thames Water Agreements, SAP Calculations just to name a few!

Your house needs to suit your lifestyle, which can often change, whether it is an addition to the family requiring an additional bedroom, or maybe one of you now works from home and is in need of a study, or transforming the small kitchen to create the social kitchen/dining room that you see in all the magazines today. There are countless reasons to make change your house and we can help guide you through the process, being a constant support from start to finish. Extensions come in all shapes, sizes and specifications, so until scheme plans are drawn up, builders will be unable to give reasonably accurate estimates.

When extending our homes, most of us would think of building outwards or into the loft, without giving a second thought to what lies beneath our feet. However, by digging down into the cellar or basement, you can create an additional floor running the entire length of your house, and that opens up a wealth of opportunities for a bigger and better home. Here's how to go about it. Once instructed we carry out a full measured survey of the client's home producing architectural plans and elevations of the original property.