Services / Cost management
Cost management
Keep the build within budget. We set a realistic budget early, check it as the design develops, compare builders' prices like for like, and track the cost of changes during construction.
- FreeInitial consultationA conversation about your project, and a first view of what's possible, before any fee is agreed.
- FixedFee for each stageEvery stage is priced in writing before it starts. No hourly billing.
- 3DSee the design firstYour design is shown in 3D before it's submitted, while changes are still easy.
- FreeResubmissionIf planning is refused, we revise and resubmit at no extra design fee. Conditions
What we do
Early budget
A realistic budget for the building work, fees and approvals before you commit to a design.
Cost plan
The budget checked against the design as it develops, so choices are made with costs in view.
Tender comparison
Builders' prices compared like for like, with gaps and provisional sums highlighted.
Changes during construction
Variations priced and agreed before they happen.
Final account
The final cost agreed with your builder at the end of the job.
Cost management
What's included
Priced by stage, or as part of project management or contract administration.
- Budget at feasibility stage
- Cost checks as the design develops
- Tender comparison
- Variations and final account
Before you start
What we need, and what sits outside our fee
- From you: the property address, a few photos, and any existing drawings, planning approvals or surveys you have. We arrange the measured survey with you.
- Not in our fee: council planning and building control fees, and specialist reports a council asks for, such as a tree survey or flood risk assessment, unless your fee proposal lists them.
- Your fee proposal sets out exactly what is included for your project before any work starts.
Common questions
Do I need cost management for an extension?
For a straightforward extension, a clear tender comparison is often enough. For larger projects, renovations and new homes, ongoing cost management helps avoid overspending.
Other services
- Free planning check
- House extensions
- Loft conversions
- Upward extensions
- Renovations and internal alterations
- Basement conversions
- Planning permission
- Lawful development certificates
- Pre-application advice
- Building regulations drawings
- Building control applications
- Structural calculations
- Structural surveys and letters of comfort
- Flat conversions
- Lease plans and licence to alter
- Change of use
- New builds
- Interior design
- 3D visualisation
- Energy and retrofit
- Energy Performance Certificates (EPC)
- Accessible home adaptations
- Commercial fit-outs and shopfronts
- Design consultations
- Party wall surveys
- Build over agreements and drainage
- Planning reports and statements
- Amendments, conditions and regularisation
- Planning appeals
- Conservation areas and listed buildings
- Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL)
- HMO planning and licensing
- Feasibility and site checks
- Measured surveys
- Building surveys
- Drawing reviews and second opinions
- Location and block plans
- Tender and construction support
- Principal designer (CDM and building regulations)
- Project management
- Contract administration
- Design and build
- Turnkey projects
- Landscape design
Where we work
Cost management across London
Local planning points for the boroughs closest to our Cricklewood studio: Ealing, Harrow, Brent, Hillingdon, Hounslow, Haringey, Enfield, Barnet, Camden, Westminster, Hammersmith and Fulham, Kensington and Chelsea. See all 33 boroughs.