SET SQUARE STUDIO — COMMERCIAL
Design, planning, licensing and build for operators, investors and developers.
Restaurant and takeaway fit-outs, licensed venues, holiday lets, care homes and listed-building restoration — delivered by one accountable team from feasibility to trading. We specialise in the schemes other people find too complicated.
PICTURED / CARGO — DRINK · DINE · SLEEP
- Sectors
- F&B · Hospitality · Care · Heritage
- We handle
- Planning · Licensing · Fit-out · Build
- Area
- South & South West
- Model
- One team, one contract
Restaurant, Café & Takeaway Fit-Out
Empty shell to trading — planning, extraction, licensing, branded fit-out. One programme, one trading date.
Bars, Pubs & Hospitality Venues
Premises licences, venue design and fit-out — a licensed-trade pedigree from Greene King to independents.
Holiday Lets & Serviced Accommodation
Change of use argued properly — four lets consented on Bristol’s Queen Square.
Care Homes & Specialist Care
Planning, CQC-aware design, fire and heritage — reconciled in one scheme.
Heritage & Listed Building Restoration
The consents other teams can’t get — Grade I townscapes to Grade II fabric.
Change of Use & Conversions
Prior approval or full application — the route chosen on evidence, then delivered.
The technical bench most studios subcontract.
These aren’t services we sell separately — they’re why the categories above get consented.
- Planning applications & appeals
- Listed building consent & heritage impact assessments
- Premises licensing — new, variations, reviews
- Commercial kitchen extraction & ventilation design
- Ecology — bat surveys, EPS licensing, biodiversity net gain
- Fire engineering strategy
- Sustainability & eco-design compliance
- Specialist care & dementia-friendly design
- Technical design — architecture, M&E, structural
- Principal contractor & construction management
- Commercial & hospitality fit-out
- Heritage restoration & specialist repair
Chicking, Bournemouth — shell to trading, on programme.
Planning, a late-night refreshment licence, a bespoke extraction system and a full brand-standard fit-out — every consent in place before handover, at one of the town centre’s most prominent corners.
Read the case study- Location
- Bournemouth
- Sector
- F&B / Hospitality
- Licences
- 2 granted
- Delivery
- On programme
Send us the site and the problem.
The use you want, the building you’ve got, the timeline you’re working to. We’ll tell you the route — and whether it’s real.