If you have bought a house and wish to extend or undergo extensive refurbishment - Cranes Chartered Surveyors will undertake all surveys, prepare plans and specifications, obtain estimates and if desired, supervise the work right through to completion. Cranes Chartered Surveyors can do as little or as much as you need. The service is tailored to your requirements.
ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN PROCEDURE FOR NEW AND EXISTING PROPERTY 
First contact by client
Meet client to discuss initial brief
Agree and formalise basis of fee
Investigate feasibility
Undertake measured survey of existing building and/or site
Prepare record drawings
Sketch scheme presentation to client and budget costings
Preparation of full scheme design
Outline or full planning/listed building applications
Preparation of detailed working drawings and construction notes
Submission of Building Regulation application and structural calculations
Preparation of detailed specification
Tender procedure
Contact documentation and administration
Contract Certificate using Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors forms
Negotiations to final account

Note: Associated with the foregoing would be services under the Party Wall Act 1996 whereby adjoining owners affected by the works would be served with the requisite notice and the set procedure carried out as laid out under that legislation

Also where appropriate, services as a planning supervisor under the Construction Design and Management Regulations 1994 whereby the design and procedure for working to construct the project is carefully thought through to reduce the risk of injury to those constructing, using and maintaining the building.