We tell you straight, and give you options.
If a scheme is in trouble, you’ll hear it from us first, with the choices laid out and the one we’d take.
SET SQUARE STUDIO · DESIGN · CONSENTS · BUILD
Drawn true. Planned properly. Built once.
Planning, licensing, extraction, conditions and appeals: the consents other people find awkward are our everyday work. Tell us what you’re trying to do and we’ll tell you straight whether it’s possible and what it will take, then get on with it, from the drawings to the build.
- No call centre, no account manager. You deal with the people doing the work.
- A personal reply within two working days, usually sooner.
- One team from first sketch to sign-off.
START WITH YOUR SITUATION
What do you need help with?
I’ve had a letter from the councilEnforcement, a licensing warning, a condition breach. Forward it to us and we’ll tell you where you stand.→
I’m opening or taking over a restaurant, bar or takeawayPlanning, extraction, licence and fit-out, worked back from your opening date.→
I need a premises licence, or to change oneNew licences, variations, transfers, pavement licences and HMOs. We handle the forms, the plans and the officer.→
My application was refused, or I need conditions signed offAppeals, resubmissions and conditions discharge, with the case made in full first time.→
I want to extend, convert or build at homeExtensions, lofts, annexes, HMOs and listed homes, from first sketch to sign-off.→
My building’s been damagedAn independent scope after water, fire or impact, then the repair itself.→
Not on the list? Tell us in your own words. Most of our best projects started with “I’m not sure who to ask”.
DEADLINE · 24 MARCH 2027
New building regulations are coming. Submit before they do.
The Future Homes Standard brings in new building regulations from 24 March 2027. Schemes submitted to building control before then, and started by 24 March 2028, can be built under the current rules. If you have a new-build or flats scheme in planning, now is the time to get the building regulations package in.
Building regulations
HOW WE WORK WITH YOU
Good service isn’t a slogan. It’s what happens when the council writes back.
Five habits, each taken from real emails to and from our clients this year. Names and addresses left out.
We move at the council’s pace, not ours.
Deadlines from planning, licensing and the Inspectorate get dealt with the day they land.
We chase, so you don’t have to.
Case officers, building control, the Planning Inspectorate, utility companies. We keep after them and tell you what they said.
One contact, the whole team behind it.
We bring in the structural engineer, ecologist, highways, arboricultural and fire consultants, and run them as one programme.
We sweat the small stuff.
Licence paperwork, addresses, conditions, payment runs. The admin that trips projects up is part of the job.
FROM FIRST VISIT TO OPENING DAY
You’ll see every stage before it happens.
We see it as it is
We draw it properly
You see it before it’s built
Then we build it
SELECTED PROJECT · WALDITCH, DORSET
A Grade II stable block, brought back as a home for care.
Planning and listed building consent to turn a derelict stable into dementia care rooms, with heritage officers, a protected bat roost and the fire strategy all worked through in one scheme. Approved by Dorset Council, 2026.
Read the case studyMEET THE STUDIO
The person on the other end of the phone.
Leads every project. Fifteen years designing for pubs, restaurants, care and homes.
We bring in structural engineers, ecologists, highways, arboricultural and fire consultants as each job needs them, and run them as one programme, so you still have one contact.
START HERE
Forward us the letter, the drawings, or just a photo.
That’s usually all we need to tell you the route, the rough cost and whether your timeline is realistic. No forms to fill in first if you’d rather not.