Along with traditional architectural services we also offer a suite of consultations to get you rolling with low financial outlay
Pre-Design Reports
Make the expensive decisions before they cost you.
Every engagement begins with certainty, not drawings. From there the path forks — if you are weighing a purchase, start with Site Intelligence; if you are building your own home, the Dwelling Strategy Report; if you are developing the site, the Development Feasibility Report.
Site Intelligence Report
Know what a site will allow — before you buy it.
Most purchases are made on assumptions about what a block can take. The Site Intelligence Report replaces those assumptions with the ground truth: the controls, the buildable envelope, and the constraints that decide what is genuinely possible on the land.
It is the cheapest certainty you will ever buy, and the right place to begin.
What you receive
- The planning controls that apply to the land — the zone, the overlays, and what each one actually means for what you can do. A plain read, not a list of clauses.
- The buildable envelope — the height, setbacks, and site coverage that define the buildable shape.
- The constraints that ambush people — easements, covenants, vegetation, flooding and bushfire, heritage — surfaced now, while they are cheap to know.
- A clear read on what the site is realistically capable of, and the approval pathway that gets you there.
What it resolves
“What if there’s a hidden constraint that kills the whole idea?”
It is surfaced before you commit a dollar.
“Am I about to buy something I can’t build on?”
You learn the envelope first, and buy with your eyes open.
“I don’t even know where to start.”
You start with the truth about the land, not a hopeful guess.
How it works
$590 ex GST
5 business days
The lowest-risk way to test a site before you commit to it — the ground every later decision is built on, and the work that informs whichever report comes next.
Dwelling Strategy Report
Decide what to build — with certainty — before you commit to design.
Most homeowners commit to a full design engagement before they know what they should be building. The Dwelling Strategy Report reverses that order. It settles the single most consequential decision in any renovation — what to build — before you spend a dollar designing it.
This is not a feasibility study and not a set of drawings. It is the design decision itself, made and justified.
What you receive
- Two to three distinct strategies for your site — real configurations, not loose sketches. Each is a genuine response to how you want to live in the home.
- Every option tested against the planning controls that govern your block — so you know which directions will hold up before you become attached to one.
- An indicative construction cost band for each direction — so you can see the financial shape of each path before you are committed to any of them.
- A read on the approval pathway and buildability of each — where the risk sits, where the clear run is.
- One recommended direction, with the reasoning laid out — so you finish knowing not only your options, but which one to back, and why.
What it resolves
“What if we overcapitalise?”
You see the cost shape of every direction before you choose, not after.
“What if it doesn’t get approved?”
Every option is tested against your controls before you fall in love with one.
“What if we build it and regret the layout?”
You choose your direction with the thinking already done. The most expensive mistake in any renovation is the one you only discover once it is built. This is where that risk is removed.
How it works
$1,500 ex GST
10 business days
Commence your full design service within 10 days of receiving your report and we take $3,000 off your full services — more than the cost of the report itself, off your fee for committing with certainty.
Within that window your fee is held at the rate quoted, your start date is secured, and a concept visualisation of your recommended direction is included. Your recommended scheme moves straight into design — nothing repeated, no ground lost.
Development Feasibility Report
Before you commit capital, know whether the deal stacks.
A site either works as a development or it does not — and the difference lives in numbers most people never model until it is too late. The Development Feasibility Report tells you what your site can yield and whether the return justifies the commitment, before you spend on design or settle on a purchase price.
This is the go / no-go, made on evidence.
What you receive
- The yield the site supports — how many dwellings, what mix and configuration, under the controls that actually apply. Not the optimistic version.
- The full development numbers — gross realisable value, construction cost, professional fees, contingency, finance, and the levies and holding costs that back-of-envelope feasibilities routinely leave out.
- Your residual land value, margin, and return on cost — the figures that decide whether the deal clears a developer’s hurdle.
- The risk read — planning pathway, market exposure, and the sensitivities that move the outcome most.
- A clear recommendation — proceed, refine, or walk — with the reasoning shown.
What it resolves
“Will this actually make money?”
The numbers, stress-tested, before you commit capital.
“Am I missing a cost that wrecks the return?”
The full stack, including the finance, holding, and scheduled infrastructure levies people routinely underestimate.
“Is the yield I’ve been told real?”
Tested against what the controls genuinely allow, not what a selling agent suggested.
How it works
$2,800 ex GST
15 business days
Commence your full services within 20 business days of receiving your report and $5,000 is credited to your engagement — well beyond the cost of the report, returned for moving while the numbers hold.
The report is costed and scoped against current conditions — construction rates, finance, planning controls, and infrastructure levies scheduled to change. Those numbers have a shelf life; the report holds them as they stand today.
Still unsure?……… that’s ok!….