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Development
Planning-led architecture for developers and investors in London: from a view on a site before you buy, through consent, to technical design and delivery.
Approaching 400 planning and listed building applications since 2005, across London, Hampshire and the south coast, many of them on sensitive and constrained sites.
Design visualisation · 8 Middle LaneWhat we do
For developers
Before you buy
Site appraisal
A quick, written view of what a site or building is likely to get consent for, so you can bid with confidence.
Consent
Planning and pre-application
Pre-application advice, full planning applications and the reports that go with them, prepared and submitted by us.
Change of use
Offices, shops and upper floors
Conversions to residential, whether through a full application or prior approval.
Sensitive sites
Conservation areas and listed buildings
Schemes in conservation areas and to listed buildings, where design quality decides the outcome.
If it goes wrong
Refusals and appeals
A clear view of whether to appeal or revise, and the application or appeal that follows.
Delivery
Technical design and tender
Building Regulations drawings, specifications and tender information, and support through construction.
Starting on site
8 Middle Lane, Crouch End
The conversion of an office building on Middle Lane into four apartments. The new frontage and roof take their cue from the Victorian parade alongside.
Consented
The Broadway, Crouch End
Haringey Council granted planning permission in September 2026 for an additional storey of three new flats on the roof of a commercial building on The Broadway, set back behind the parapet so they read as a light, glazed top storey. The scheme builds on two earlier permissions for the site. Each apartment has its own planted terrace or garden, with frameless glass balustrades, sliding doors and an overhanging aluminium louvre to shade the glass.
In planning
Transenna Works, Islington
A full planning application (ref. P2026/1008/FUL) was registered with Islington Council in May 2026 and is currently being determined. It proposes a four-storey brick building replacing a two-storey pair of houses on a tight site beside a primary school: three two-bedroom apartments and one three-bedroom, with parking, screened air source heat pumps and solar panels. Lead-clad dormers and glass balconies give the upper floors space and light.
Background
Experience at scale
Before founding the practice, Ade Fowler worked at Future Systems, Conran & Partners and in the studio of Will Alsop OBE RA, where he joined to deliver the detailed design for construction of the Stonebridge hospital and community centre.
Between 2017 and 2019 he led a programme of around 100 planning and listed building applications for one of London’s great private estates, including Grade II* buildings on Brook Street, Mayfair.
More about Ade →Your project
Have a site in mind?
Send us the address or the listing and we’ll tell you what we think is possible. We respond personally, usually within one working day.