The Design Workbook takes five to ten minutes, and you walk away with a written project brief: the planning controls on your site, an order of magnitude budget, your ranked priorities and a readiness score. Bring it to us, to your builder, or to any architect.
No cost, no obligation. Your answers save in your browser as you type, so you can leave and come back.
Type in your address and the workbook pulls the live planning controls from the NSW Planning Portal: zoning, heritage, height, floor space ratio and minimum lot size.
Not a quote. An order of magnitude range that tells you whether the project you are imagining and the money you have set aside belong in the same conversation.
Every project involves trade-offs. Ranking your priorities before design starts is what stops them being made for you later, by default or by budget.
An honest measure of how ready you are to start, and exactly where the gaps are. Most people have never been asked these questions before a first meeting.
Everything you enter compiles into a one-page written brief you can copy with a single click and paste into an email, a call booking, or hand to any architect.
Two versions
Same method, different questions. Pick the one that matches what you are planning.
For homeowners and families planning work on a heritage or character home, or on the place they are about to make one.
For investors, developers and operators weighing up what a building could become, and what it will cost to get there.
Best practice
Ten minutes done properly is worth more than an hour done politely.
The property check pulls live planning data for the address you enter. A real address gives you real controls, the things that will actually shape what you can and cannot build.
The workbook is private until you choose to send it. An optimistic number here doesn't impress anyone, it just delays the moment you find out what the project really costs.
If your partner, your co-owner or your board has a say, fill it in together. The priority-ranking section surfaces disagreements now, while they are cheap to resolve.
First instincts are usually the true brief. Write what you actually worry about, not what sounds considered. The rough answer is the useful one.
When you finish, copy the summary and paste it into the booking notes. It is the single step that turns a general conversation into a specific one about your project, with us or with anyone.
Choose your workbook, pop in your details, and it opens straight away. We'll email you the link as well, so you can come back to it whenever it suits.
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