COMMERCIAL / RESTAURANT, CAFÉ & TAKEAWAY FIT-OUT
Empty shell to trading restaurant — planning, extraction, fit-out, done.
Turnkey delivery for F&B operators: change-of-use planning, commercial kitchen extraction and ventilation, late-night licensing and full branded fit-out — one team, one programme, one trading date.
- We secure
- Planning + licence
- We design
- Extraction + fit-out
- Compliance
- Part B · F · J
- Proven
- Chicking, Bournemouth
- “We've signed a lease on a shell and the clock is running.”
- “The extraction is the thing nobody can solve.”
- “We need to trade past 23:00 — that's the business model.”
A town-centre F&B unit lives or dies on three approvals: the planning consent (change of use, shopfront, signage — and above all the extraction discharge), the premises licence with the late-night hours the model needs, and building-control sign-off across Parts B, F and J. We run planning and licensing concurrently, not sequentially — the single biggest programme saver there is.
The extraction system — the classic town-centre stumbling block, with limited roof access and neighbours to protect — is designed in-house to satisfy planning conditions and environmental health, then installed by the same team phasing the fit-out around it.
- Chicking, Bournemouth: shell to trading, on programme, two licences secured — the reference project.
- Extraction and ventilation designed in-house, resolving the issue that sinks most town-centre applications.
- Brand-manual fit-out delivered to corporate standards, with building control signed off before handover.
Chicking, Bournemouth — shell to trading restaurant
Planning, late-night licence, bespoke extraction and full branded fit-out, delivered on programme at one of the town centre's most prominent corners.
Read the case studyCan you get late-night refreshment consent?
Yes — we prepare the operating schedule and coordinate the premises licence application. We secured trading beyond 23:00 for Chicking in a sensitive town-centre location.
Who designs the kitchen extraction?
We do, in-house — to planning conditions, Building Regulations Part F and environmental health odour-control requirements, even with limited roof access.
How do you keep the programme on track?
Planning and licensing run concurrently, and the build is phased so mechanical works proceed with first fix. One team, one programme, one trading date.
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