SMB Design and Planning is an architecture, planning, structural engineering and 3D site modelling practice. We take on projects at any scale — a single structural calculation for a garden wall, a planning application for a barn conversion, a drone point cloud survey ahead of an application, or a full turnkey design carried from first sketch to completed build. Whatever the size of the job, it's handled by people who understand how the design, the planning route, the structure and the site data all have to work together.
We work across residential, rural and small commercial projects — house extensions, barn and agricultural building conversions, new self-build homes, and the structural engineering that sits underneath all of it. Some clients come to us needing a full turnkey service; others need one piece of the puzzle, like a set of structural calculations, or an accurate point cloud survey to sit alongside their own drawings. Both get the same attention.
Because architecture, planning, engineering and site capture sit in the same practice, a structural idea gets pressure-tested against planning constraints before it's drawn, and a planning strategy is never written without knowing whether the building behind it can actually stand up. It removes the back-and-forth of coordinating separate consultants, and it tends to make projects faster and more certain.
Design decisions are tested against the site itself — orientation, ground conditions, what's already standing — before they're tested against a mood board.
Clear advice on what will and won't get through planning, and what a structure will actually cost to build, said early rather than late.
Architecture, planning, engineering and survey work are handled by one practice, so drawings and calculations are never chasing each other.
Every scheme, however small, gets the same level of care as a full turnkey design — a single retaining wall calculation included.
We visit, measure — and where useful, point-cloud capture — the site and its constraints before a single line is drawn.
Options are sketched and tested against your brief, budget and the planning context.
Drawings, calculations and applications are prepared and carried through planning and building control.
We stay involved through construction, on hand for the questions that only come up on site.