Homes need a Woman's touch.
1) Onsite consultation. (Call to arrange a site visit or an estimated cost of services)
The purpose of this is to provide you with the information necessary to understand building regulations and planning requirements. You can then make an informed assessment of the work you require to proceed with, the costs associated and ultimately the decision on a way forward to achieving your desired goal.
2) Home owners and landlords. We offer the following services:
a) Provide design drawings for planning applications, making the application to the council and provide all required reports.
b) Provide building control drawings and full working drawings for the contractor to work from. Submit and gain building regulation approvals.
c) Assist with choosing a builder, providing tender documentation for the work to start on site. Agree prices with all parties and provide and arrange signing of building work contract for the project. Obtain all necessary forms for commencement on site i.e. Party wall agreements, inform building control of start dates.
d) Supervise building works and ensure the build is completed to a good standard, on time and in budget. The customer can decide on the extent of my services as they may require.
3) Building contractors. We offer the following services:
a) Detailed drawing service. Sometimes customers do not have drawings for there preferred scheme or only have planning drawings. This can be tricky when doing projects like loft conversions. I this instance I will provide planning or working drawings to building regulation to be worked from and/or to submit to a preferred building control service.
b) Material take-off service so the builder can have a list of building materials and shop around his merchant's for best prices.
c) Recommendation on alternative specifications to that of the drawings and clarifying any details on drawings that are vague or have missing parts.
d) Help when dealing with local authority building control officers and planners. He will have a professional on his side.
4) Fylde Borough Council - LABC Partner
The LABC partner Authority Scheme (PAS) is designed to help when dealing with many local authorities. The scheme is to have a one-to-one working relationship with our preferred local authority, Fylde Borough Council. The site inspections are carried out by the local authority where each project is based.
There are many benefits of having a single point of contact: It ensures consistency, guarantees an efficient pre-application service and you can still benefit from local knowledge, whilst gaining professional experience of liasing with other services such as fire, police and environmental health.
