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We are at feasibility stage preparing a budget cost plan and option drawing proposals for the redevelopment of a four storey property at Grays Inn Road for a private client.

Attached are the existing drawings and street scene photograph.

Initially the scheme is comprised some 280sqm overall and entails the following client brief:

1. Retail use to basement and ground floor, fit out to a shell and core

2. Waterproofing the basement

3. Reinstatement of the staircase to basement

4. Extend ground floor to full depth of open courtyard to rear of property

5. New shopfront

6. Access to upper floors as staircase accessed from font elevation, as now

7. First floor to accommodate a one bedroom flat with extension to the rear to approximately 1.8m from the rear courtyard wall

8. Second and third floors to accommodate a two bedroom flat.

9. The second floor is to be extended to the rear of the property

10. The existing mansard roof is to be dismantled and replaced entirely with a new mansard with a larger footprint than existing.

11. New staircase connecting the second and third floors.

12. Renewal of windows to the front elevation to match existing in uPVC

13. Full externals

14. Fire compartmentation.

15. Acoustic separation ground/first and first/second floors

16. Flats are to have independent HW/heating installations.

Progress posts to follow once the agreed proposal is signed off.