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Architect Lincoln Brayford Designs

There is 2 parts to any construction project. The first part is planning permission so planning permission essentially gives you permission to build something. So if we look at a garage, for example, the planning permission will give details on the aesthetics of that. What materials are you going to use so what it's going to look like? They're not looking at the engineering properties of those materials they're looking at the aesthetic properties of those materials, so is it a brown brick is it a white render? Is it a white window is it grey window? That's the detail of planning permission would want to know. Building regulations and planning permission sorry would also want to know what the use of the room is because it's going to be used for commercial element you have to make sure you got a change of use in there as well. So it could be the change in the residential property into a commercial property into a shop you'd have to do planning permission for change of use. The next part then so what we always do is we'll get you through planning permission first so you have the grant to build something that represents that will be in keeping with the design for where it's going to be sited and the appearance of that. The next step then is building regulations, so building regulations wants to know what materials are you going to use. What the engineering properties of those materials and how they comply with the different parts of the building regulations, for example, how environmentally friendly it is so deal with heat loss from buildings and things like that so.