Tailor Made Premises: The Process

1. Budget Constraints:

Before you commence you will need to establish what your budget is for rent or for purchase. The latter case will include establishing the greatest amount your bankers would be prepared to lend you or which you would be happy borrowing against a notional property in the light of the likely repayment amounts.

2. How to decide on what you need in a New Property:

We will help you define your needs (assuming you have not already done this) by asking you a number of questions, to find out essential matters. For instance:

Size and Layout:

How many staff you need to accommodate and what their individual functions and consequent requirements for amount and type of working space are.

What space you need for meetings and other non-permanent uses.

What space you need for storage, manufacturing, dispatch if needed.

Factors affecting your choice of location (e.g. access to customers, staff, materials).

Amenities:

Parking for staff

The image you are looking to project to your customers, staff and suppliers.

Number of lavatories and amount of kitchen space.

Special facilities to do with your particular business (e.g. in the case of manufacturing or warehousing, you might have specialist energy, ventilation or drainage requirements).

Security

3. Following up with a Space Planning Service:

If the answers to these questions leave "grey areas" to be resolved, we can at this at this stage offer you a detailed consultation to help you define your needs exactly and, if appropriate, supply you with notional space plans on which a search for property (if you do not already own the land on which you want the property built) can be based. There will be a small charge for this to offset expenses and, candidly, to demonstrate your interest in pursuing the project. This fee will be refunded when you have bought or taken a lease of your new property. Alternatively, if circumstances subsequently change and you drop the project or move to a property not built by us, you will have had the benefit of our space planning and criteria refining help anyway.

4. Search for and Choose a Site to Build Your Premises on

(if you have not already identified or do not already own the site on which you wish to have your new premises built).

5. Finalise Design, Obtain Planning Permission if Necessary, Agree Heads of Terms for Lease or Forward Purchase Contract

6. Exchange Contracts to Purchase Site and Exchange Agreements to Lease or Forward Purchase Contracts .

As stated above, we can buy the site for you on the basis of your commitment to the completed project.

7. Build

A professionally controlled programme to ensure complete compliance with all relevant regulations and codes and fully monitored to ensure the expected level of workmanship is achieved.

8. Practical Completion of Construction, Hand-over and Commencement of Lease or Completion of Purchase.

Fully snagged ready to hand over with a defects rectification period and, where applicable, a long term maintenance plan in place. Complete hand over manuals for smooth hand over to inhouse staff.