Areas We Cover Across Yorkshire and the Humber

Yes. Every town listed on this page is one we take work in, from Kingston upon Hull and the villages west of the city out to Scarborough, Harrogate, Leeds and Doncaster. If your address is not on the list but sits between two towns that are, ring us anyway. Village addresses are usually decided by the same authority as the nearest listed town.

We quote a single fee for the work, and travel is inside it. What we will not do is pretend that a project two hours away needs the same number of site visits as one down the road. The number of visits is agreed at the start and written into the quote, so it does not move later.

At minimum, once for the measured survey before design starts, and then at the key construction stages during the build. On a straightforward extension that is usually a handful of visits. On a new build or a commercial fit out it is considerably more, and the schedule is set out before work starts rather than invented as we go.

The first conversation can happen on the phone or over a video call, and it often does. We can give you a sensible view on feasibility from photographs, a location and a description. What we will not do is produce drawings from that, because measured survey information is what stops a scheme falling apart at building regulations stage.

It depends on the town. Hull City Council covers the city, East Riding of Yorkshire Council covers most of the towns east and north of it, City of York Council covers York, North Yorkshire Council covers Selby, Malton, Scarborough and Harrogate, Leeds City Council covers Leeds and Wetherby, City of Doncaster Council covers Doncaster and North Lincolnshire Council covers Barton-upon-Humber and Barrow upon Humber.

They apply the same national framework, but each has its own local plan, its own householder design guidance and its own conservation area boundaries. That changes what is acceptable on materials, roof form, dormer size and how close you can build to a boundary. It is the main reason we read the local policy for your site rather than reusing a scheme that passed elsewhere.

Because the thing that goes wrong on most projects is not distance, it is the gap between the person who designed it and the people who build it. We close that gap by doing both. If you would rather use a practice on your doorstep that hands the job to a contractor at the end of the drawings, that is a fair choice, and we will tell you so.

Yes. Office fit outs, retail units, restaurants and mixed use conversions run in the same way as residential work, with the same architect on the job. Commercial projects usually need more site visits because the programme is tighter and the consequences of a delay are measured in lost trading weeks.

Usually within a couple of weeks, and often sooner if we already have a visit booked in the same part of the county. We group visits geographically, so if you are in the same area as another live project the survey can often be brought forward.

Several of the towns we cover have historic centres that are likely to contain conservation areas, and York and Harrogate have a good deal of designated land. If your property falls within one, permitted development rights are reduced and the officer will scrutinise materials, window detailing and roof form far more closely. We check the designation before we design, not after.

Yes. Barton-upon-Humber and Barrow upon Humber are both on the list and both fall to North Lincolnshire Council, which is a different authority with a different local plan to anything on the Yorkshire bank. The bridge crossing is not the obstacle. The change of authority is the thing worth knowing about.

Often, yes. The list reflects where we regularly work rather than a hard boundary. Tell us the address and what you have in mind and we will give you a straight answer on whether we are the right practice for it, including whether the travel would make the oversight thinner than it should be.