What a feasibility study tells you

Before you buy a plot or commit to an extension: what we look at in a feasibility study, what it costs, and the three answers it can give.

Most projects that go wrong do so in the first month, long before anyone draws a wall: a plot bought with a covenant nobody read, an extension planned over a sewer, a budget that was never going to stretch to the brief.

A feasibility study is our way of finding those things out early, for a fixed fee.

What we look at

The site: boundaries, levels, trees, access, drainage, services and the ground (from the geological maps; a proper survey comes later).
The planning context: the site’s history, the local plan, conservation areas, listed neighbours, flood maps.
The brief against the budget: what you’d like, what it would cost to build here, and where they don’t meet.
Two or three options as quick sketches, with rough areas and costs.

The three answers

It’s a good idea, here’s how. It’s a good idea, but not quite as you imagined it. Or, occasionally, it isn’t a good idea, and you’ve spent £650 rather than £65,000 finding out.

All three are worth having. You can book one on the process page.