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
- Location
- Bournemouth
- Sector
- F&B / Hospitality
- Licences
- 2 granted
- Delivery
- On programme
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 studySend 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.