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Thank you all very much for your help and advice. Please forgive my ignorance but do the figures that you quote for detailed design/tendering of 5% and 6-8% cover all of the architectural work up to this stage (meetings, plans, planning permission etc)? Please could you also advise on an...

Sorry!, here's more info: - First Architect got us the planning permission and estimated the build costs at £200,000. New Architect said he would charge on a time-basis first (which we assumed would be low as we already had planning permission) then 13 % of build cost, and estimated...

Dear Forum, Hope someone can help with some advice about our Architect's fees. We were planning to add a basement and an additional top floor to our small (commercial) building. We already had planning permission for this, but needed help with interior layouts. He said he would charge us...