Garry Thomas – Top 25 Grand Designs Architect
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Multiple open countryside homes built
Make Your Grand Design Come to Life
• Whether your site has Grand Designs potential
• Planning strategies for possible locations
• Investment requirements for your vision
• Next steps to make it reality
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Garry Thomas – Top-25 Grand Designs Architect Behind Award-Winning Projects
From impossible open countryside planning permissions to national television features, I turn architectural dreams into reality across England’s most challenging and beautiful locations.
What Are Grand Design Homes?
Understanding what transforms an ordinary build into an extraordinary architectural statement
The word ‘Grand’ conjures up images of seismic builds of epic proportions, with perhaps intricate details and almost castle-like structures. The word ‘Design’ evokes creative journeys into shapes, materials and colours and, while that’s not necessarily the whole story, it’s certainly that design element that takes a build from the ordinary to the extraordinary.
A grand design property is something uniquely conceived and often, almost utterly selfishly, reflecting the complete desires of the owner. It’s safe to say that this is about lifestyle, perhaps statement living, bearing of values, as well as creative indulgence and, of course, the realisation of dreams.
Featured on Grand Designs
Bringing extraordinary architectural visions to national television and beyond
hillcot barn for robert and jane ellis forest of dean
“This isn’t Ross on Wye, this is Manhattan on Wye!”Kevin McCloud
Are Your House Ideas Credible?
While you are wielding your architectural pen with Harry Potter-like wizardry, it’s wise to get down to the basics of practicalities and even legalities as you create your luxury house plans.
If you are wanting large areas underground, you’ll need to consider the geology of your plot. Got a passion for glass? Think about where the sun will be coming from or you might be turning your home into an uncontrollable retina-burning greenhouse, or running into expensive preventative measures that are counterproductive to the concept.
To build your dream home, are your desired build materials durable, how easily sourced are they, will you need specialist services (and do you know them?), or will they be style over substance, will they date and you’ll tire of them? And your budget! Don’t forget that as cost overruns are no joy when it comes to realising your dream home.
QUARRY House for Stephanie AND alex leominster
Where is the Best Place to Build a Grand Design House?
At the moment planning policy governs where housing development can be located. The best places to find development sites are on the edge of major villages, and converting existing rural buildings into residential development.
The only way to get a home in the open countryside is through the National Planning Policy Framework. As such the planning tests are a high bar to reach and requires an iterative approach to the design with multiple pre-applications to work with the Local Authority and a third party design review panel.
Understanding Paragraph 84(e) is crucial for countryside developments – this is where our expertise truly shines.
Commission Your Forever Home in Open Countryside
For visionary clients seeking the impossible, we offer exclusive access to exceptional rural sites through our private landowner network. These carefully curated locations in the open countryside would otherwise be unavailable through traditional channels.
Our comprehensive service guides you from exclusive site selection through planning excellence to architectural mastery – creating homes that celebrate their countryside settings.
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