Builders and project management in Swindon

In Swindon (SN1) it is mostly church reordering, renovation of older stone property, and extensions and new builds in the villages around the town, all of it fully project managed on a fee agreed before anything starts. Swindon is a town that has grown quickly around a much older core, so a project there is either straightforward modern work on the edge or closely controlled conservation work in the middle, and it is worth establishing which one you are in early. Every project begins with a look at the building and the site rather than a price guessed over the phone.

Yes. Our 2020 DAC award scheme at St. Michael and All Angels, Highworth is on the edge of Swindon. Ring and we will tell you what we usually find in buildings around Old Town and what yours is likely to need before anything is opened up.

It does, and Swindon is really two jobs in one town. The older core and the villages around it are stone and brick, frequently listed, and need the same care as anywhere else in Wiltshire. The postwar and modern estates are conventional cavity construction where an extension or a renovation is a straightforward building regulations job. The useful thing is to establish at the outset which one your property is, because people are regularly told their house is unconstrained when it sits inside a conservation area.

Swindon is a town that has grown quickly around a much older core, so a project there is either straightforward modern work on the edge or closely controlled conservation work in the middle, and it is worth establishing which one you are in early. Whether your particular building needs consent depends on what it is, whether it is listed, and whether it sits in a conservation area or a National Landscape, and all three get checked at the first visit rather than assumed. Where consent is needed, the application, the heritage justification and the conservation officer conversation are handled as part of the job.

No. Swindon is inside the area we cover, so travel is in the fixed fee rather than added to it. The fee is agreed at the outset and does not climb with the value of the build, which is the whole point of doing it that way.

Getting out to look at a building in Swindon and talk it through is usually a matter of days. Starting on site is a different question, because a project of any size needs design, consent and trades booked in the right order, and that is measured in months rather than weeks. We would far rather give you a real date than a hopeful one, so ring and we will tell you honestly where the next slot is.

A network of masons, carpenters, framers, lime plasterers, roofers, leadworkers, electricians and plumbers built up across the South West over more than thirty five years, engaged directly at trade prices rather than bought through a main contractor. On heritage work in Swindon that network is most of the value, because the specialists who can do it properly are not people you find at short notice.