SWDArchitecture

26/12/2023

Boxing Day Walk 2023
This is my first post for over a year. I decided to take time out from social media. I will return in 2024 with posts on my observations of all things nature and our environment, along with projects and other related information | including past projects that has been continuing behind the scenes. Enjoy a restful holiday and a happy new year.

13/05/2023

Planning a refurbishment or extension? Pop along to the self build & renovation show in Swindon this weekend.

24/09/2021

Launching New logo and stationery as we celebrate 4 years of practice this month!
Thanks to for all their work in developing our new logo, we love it, I hope you do to. Very excited about using it now!

23/07/2021

Aspiring Architects!
RIBA Studio- the future!! … study whilst working. More universities are starting to offer this opportunity. Join the webinar to find out more:

24 July 2021

Do you know of any aspiring architects who want to earn a salary whilst studying? Did you know the RIBA Studio programme allows them to?

http://riba.msgfocus.com/c/1rzOg8mVwgNr5yzmaOAQC0f4uK

Why not encourage them to join our live webinar taking place this Saturday, led by the academic team at Oxford Brookes to discover everything they need to know about advancing their career through our unique route to qualification.

Formerly known as the RIBA Office-based Examination, RIBA Studio offers RIBA Part 1 and RIBA Part 2 courses and qualifications in architecture for students based in practice.

03/07/2021

Planning Approval Success!

Side extension and a single storey rear extension which will be a timber frame structure, highly insulated and air tight - helping to reduce heating bills, locking in carbon and be a low embodied energy build.
Clad in timber with a green sedum roof - helps reduce reduce surface water, as well as looking great. Canopy overhang minimises the impact of solar gain in those summer months.

02/07/2021

Architects welcome new planning app for home extensions
Extract of Article: Architects Journal
2 JULY 2021 BY ELLA JESSEL

This promises to improve the planning system for homeowners. Fingers crossed it comes to our area soon!
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"A pilot for a new government-backed app has been launched, aimed at helping architects and homeowners navigate the planning system for house extensions

The RIPA app, which stands for Reducing Invalid Planning Applications, has been designed by three local councils to try and speed up and simplify the application process for projects that can use the permitted development route.

Simple home upgrades, such as kitchen extensions and loft conversions, do not usually need full planning permission but, according to housing ministers, the rules for permitted development are so complicated that people often waste time and money submitting invalid applications."

The app is currently being tested by Lambeth, Southwark and Buckinghamshire. The Ministry for Housing Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) said it hopes to roll it out across all councils by next summer.