Home Extension Team is pleased to have joined the Local Authority Partnerships for Businesses to provide a consistent and efficient service for our clients.

The scheme effectively provides one local authority for the whole country and is designed to help businesses who deal with many local authorities. The scheme enables a company or adviser to have a one-to-one working relationship with a preferred local authority for advice and plan appraisal. The site inspections are carried out by the local authority where each project is carried out.

There are a number of benefits to this scheme including:

• Simplifying and speeding up the building process to identify savings in time and money.

• A dedicated professional building control surveyor from the preferred local authority becomes part of the design team to offer advice on all projects no matter where they are in the country.

• The design team approach ensures that any issues can be resolved early in the design process and will eliminate the need for expensive corrections later in the construction phase.

• The single point of contact provided through this scheme results in a consistent approach to plan appraisal.

• Any local conditions, site specific information and necessary consultations are investigated on behalf of the client.

Home Extension Team will benefit from a single point of contact, consistent approach, improved pre-application service while still benefiting from local knowledge, and developing liaison with other services such as Fire, Police and Environmental Health. If you would like to find out more, please contact us.