From overlooked sites to buildings with purpose, design-led planning that delivers opportunity.

Northern Workroom combines architecture and planning expertise to unlock the potential of both land and existing buildings. We provide clarity and insight, creating design-led planning proposals that reveal opportunity, guide decision-making, and prepare sites for the next stage.

Northern Workroom exists to make the planning process understandable, design-led and commercially effective. Whether it’s unused land or an existing building in need of a new direction, we focus on planning outcomes that unlock opportunity and allow sites to move forward.

How we add value

    • Assess, design, submit planning applications, secure approvals

    • Typically provides the largest uplift because we create new potential

    • Change-of-use, extensions, infill, or sensitive retrofit

    • Uplift often more modest than new-build land schemes

    • Meaningful architectural and planning improvement

    1. Assess the site — clear advice, realistic potential

    2. Design the proposal — context-led, commercially-aware architecture

    3. Submit the planning application — coordinated, thorough, well-presented

    • Landowners — single plots, gardens, parcels, or wider land bundles

    • Property owners — retrofit, repurpose or extension projects

    • Land buyers & small developers — seeking planning-ready opportunities

    • Design-led thinking

    • ARB-registered expertise

    • Clarity and honesty

    • Simple process

    • Quality over volume