House Builders + Developers

We would like to know…

Do architects fully understand your business, appreciate site specific housing markets, deliver your brief and communicate their design to always achieve successful planning outcomes?

Do you find the iterative design process frustrating?

Does the complexity and uncertainty of the planning system affect your business objectives?

Is the true capacity of a site presented to you at the point of acquisition?

Does the long term nature of promoting land through the local plan appear to be too risky to your business?

…this is what we do for you

  1. Feasibility Studies produced quickly to give you an accurate site capacity
    with your preferred housing mix and density.

  2. Design Briefs and vision statements prepared pre-planning to engage with planning officers and Quality Review Panels setting out the opportunities of a site within its policy framework.

  3. Successful Outline Planning Applications to communicate your vision and increase your land value.

  4. Successful Detailed Planning Applications to deliver your vision and achieve your business targets.

  5. Strategic (large-scale) Masterplans to create attractive, sustainable and successful new places and provide long term housing delivery opportunities.

  6. Design Codes to deliver your vision through a robust and tested framework ensuring design quality throughout the development.

  7. Public Consultations to engage and communicate your proposals with all stakeholders in a clear and effective manner.

  8. Expert Witness Statements based on clearly communicated, robust evidence.

and all this means…

We achieve successful planning applications, delivering your vision within your market sector, fulfilling all your project specific requirements. We understand your business.

We understand your business drivers and challenges. This enables us to design and communicate your project vision, ensuring that successful planning applications deliver exactly what you want. This makes the design process much faster, easier and very much more enjoyable. 

We know that achieving a successful planning application is more likely when a good relationship of mutual respect is forged with planning officers. Understanding your business means we can clearly communicate your vision through our design, to officers, stakeholders and local communities - throughout the whole complex planning process. We understand how to add value by meeting your business objectives, designing for the market and delivering the returns you expect. There is a direct correlation between the process and the outcome.

  • "I enjoy working with Bluepencil because they understand the challenges faced by residential developers and provide well considered and attractive design solutions which maximise value without compromising on quality."

    Ed Whetham
    Managing Director
    Laxton Properties

  • "Bluepencil always produce first class, professional work and respond to our requirements quickly and thoroughly."

    Mark Gilpin

    Design Director, Inland Homes

  • "Bluepencil understand our business and design creative solutions which also impress local authorities and councillors."

    Ian Chater

    Chater Homes