Well-designed, high-quality homes should be available to everyone. Backed by eighteen years' experience, we turn clients' briefs into drawings that builders trust and planners approve. Our immersive 3D visuals let you see your potential new home before a single brick is laid.
You know you need more space. You’re less sure what’s possible, what it’ll cost, or whether planning will allow it.
Solent Architecture designs home extensions, loft and garage conversions, and new build houses across Hampshire and Sussex. We design around your family, lifestyle and future needs, and 3D visualisation lets you see the result before you commit, so there are fewer costly surprises later.
Residential servicesChange of use and HMO applications often fail on detail, and every refusal costs months of rent or trading.
Solent Architecture works on commercial fit-outs, HMO conversions and change of use applications in Hampshire and Sussex. Practical, compliant design for shops, offices, HMOs, and conversions. Clear drawings, realistic timelines, and planning applications that anticipate objections.
Commercial servicesPlenty of people will sell you a heat pump or new windows. Few will tell you what your building actually needs first.
Solent Architecture is an independent retrofit and EPC adviser covering Hampshire and Sussex. We assess, specify, and plan; installers install. PAS 2035-aligned assessments and EPC improvement plans for homeowners and landlords, identifying the right improvements and preparing rented homes for the confirmed EPC Band C requirement by 2030.
Retrofit servicesClashes found on site are the expensive kind. Most of them could have been caught in the model.
Solent Architecture provides BIM services to project teams UK-wide, as a standalone appointment or alongside the design work. Accurate 3D models help clients, contractors and consultants coordinate with confidence. Services include 3D modelling, clash detection, scan-to-BIM and ISO 19650 information management.
BIM servicesYour business can’t stand still while the building catches up.
Solent Architecture designs light industrial and storage premises for businesses across Hampshire and Sussex. Warehouses, workshops, and production facilities: practical layouts, fire strategy, and compliance drawings that keep operations moving while approvals happen.
Industrial servicesOffsite only pays off if the design is fixed before the factory starts. Changes after that point get expensive quickly.
Solent Architecture designs buildings for offsite manufacture and modular assembly. Design for modern methods of construction, drawing on experience from student accommodation to Ministry of Defence infrastructure and Hinkley Point C.
MMC servicesWe simplify the design process with immersive 3D modelling, so you can genuinely visualise your ideas before committing. You'll always know what happens next, what it costs, and what you'll receive.
A free first meeting, ideally on site, to understand your objectives, your family's needs, and agree the project framework. Honest answers before you spend a penny.
A measured survey, then design options developed in 3D so you can see and refine the space before anything is fixed.
We advise on the right route for your project, prepare and submit your planning application, or confirm whether your proposals fall within permitted development rights. We then manage the process through to a decision.
All UK building work must comply with Building Regulations. Our technical drawing pack sets out the detail needed for compliance, inspection and construction. Our drawings also provide builders with the information they require to price your project accurately.
Architectural Technologists specialise in the science of how buildings go together. That means designs that look right, cost what they were quoted, and pass building control the first time.
of experience across residential, commercial, education, healthcare, and infrastructure projects.
Immersive 3D visualisation on every project: see your home before a single brick is laid.
Based at the Fareham Innovation Centre, Lee-on-the-Solent, serving Hampshire and Sussex.
One point of contact from start to finish. You deal with the person doing the work.
“Rachel created a fantastic design which exceeded our expectations and she has been proactive in guiding us through the project from start to finish. The finished build looks incredible and has attracted many positive comments.”
T Bradbury · Homeowner, Waltham Chase“She was so helpful throughout the project and was always available when we or our builder needed to make contact. We did not hesitate to recommend her to a friend who in turn recommended her to his neighbour.”
E Halsey · Homeowner, GosportCost is the first question every client asks about. So that's where we start. Our free guides provide realistic project cost figures for Hampshire and Sussex, explained in plain English, so you can get a clearer idea of what to budget for before you speak to anyone.
Hampshire & Sussex edition
The confirmed October 2030 EPC Band C rules, in plain English
Often not. Many single-storey rear extensions, loft conversions and garage conversions fall under permitted development. We confirm which route applies to your home before any design work starts.
Typically three to four months: survey and design first, then the council's own determination period. Permitted development schemes are usually quicker.
We work across Hampshire, East and West Sussex, Surrey and the New Forest, from our studio at the Fareham Innovation Centre in Lee-on-the-Solent.
A free, no-obligation consultation, by phone, video call, or at the property.
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