Residential architectural services across Redcar and Cleveland, shaped by the property's real setting, constraints and approval route.
From the first idea to planning and technical drawings, choose the support your project needs. Each stage has a clear scope and fee.
More useful space, better daylight and a clearer relationship with the garden.
Explore this service 02Roof-space feasibility, stair layouts and technical design for a more capable home.
Explore this service 03Site-led design and early feasibility for replacement homes and small developments.
Explore this service 04A proportionate planning route supported by clear drawings and local context.
Explore this service 05Coordinated technical drawings that carry the approved design into detail.
Explore this service 06Early appraisal of access, constraints, capacity and likely consultant input.
Explore this service 07Planning-led layouts for HMOs, flat conversions and other residential changes of use.
Explore this serviceSelected projects and design studies from the practice. Explore the brief, design and thinking behind each proposal.
A study exploring twelve contemporary brick homes around a planted pedestrian mews. Foundry Court investigates how a compact brownfield site could combine individual homes, private gardens and shared outdoor space.
An illustrative conversion of an assumed Class E commercial building into ten self-contained C3 apartments. Exchange House explores how a characterful three-storey brick building could accommodate new homes while retaining its street presence.
An interior study for a children’s home, exploring calm shared rooms, clear circulation and a warm domestic setting with views towards the garden.
Read clients’ own accounts of working with Hepburn Architects.
Redcar and Cleveland spans coastal neighbourhoods, market towns, villages and rural-edge settings. Exposure, orientation, landscape and building tradition can differ markedly over a short distance. We begin with the site rather than a generic regional style, using survey information and a clear brief to establish the right response.
Existing homes can often be improved through selective remodelling as well as additional area. We test whether moving a stair, opening a view or reorganising support spaces can unlock the plan. Any extension is then sized around daylight, structure, garden use and the effect on adjacent properties.
On replacement-home, infill or conversion sites, feasibility includes the spaces around buildings as well as the buildings themselves. Access, parking, drainage, ecology, private amenity and landscape need room to work. We coordinate the architectural proposition with the likely evidence required for a properly supported application.
We establish the brief, site conditions and likely approval route before fixing the design. Once the spatial approach is agreed, the work can progress into coordinated information for planning, structural input and Building Regulations without treating those stages as separate design exercises.
Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council handles applications within the borough outside the North York Moors National Park. Depending on the property and its precise location, coastal, heritage, landscape, ecological or flood considerations may be relevant, but none should be assumed without checking the site. The National Park Authority determines applications within its boundary.
Planning and Building Regulations are separate approval systems. We can prepare the architectural information for both, but every decision remains with the relevant authority or approved inspector.
Each commission is scoped around the decisions the client needs to make. Later stages are not assumed before the earlier evidence is understood.
We discuss the property, priorities, budget and programme, then identify the surveys and early checks needed.
Options are tested in plan and three dimensions before the agreed proposal is prepared for the appropriate approval route.
The approved design is developed with construction details and coordinated consultant information for Building Control and pricing.
Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council handles most of the borough. Land inside the North York Moors National Park falls to the National Park Authority, so the precise site must be checked.
They can. Exposure and material durability may influence detailing, but the specification should be based on the actual site, design and Building Regulations requirements.
Yes. We can develop an approved design into coordinated technical information for Building Control and construction, working with structural engineers and other specialists where their input is required.
Tell David about your property in Redcar and Cleveland, what you want to change and what matters most. We will help you identify a useful first step.
North East studio · Acklam Hall, Middlesbrough
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