How it works
From your first call to council approval — every step mapped, every cost included up front. No surprises, no scope creep.
Use the instant estimator to get your ballpark drawings fee. No call, no pressure.
When you're ready, £499 books your 3D Home Scan and a remote design meeting with our team, fully refundable right up until the scan. You only decide whether to go ahead with the full project once you've seen your ideas — pay up front then, or spread it over 3 monthly instalments. We're off.
A Matterport Pro2 scanner captures every wall, window, staircase and skirting to within 1% accuracy. You don't need to tidy, move furniture, or stay in. We book a slot you choose — evenings and Saturdays available.
The output is a dimensioned digital twin of your home. Everything else happens on top of that file.
Your dedicated designer screen-shares your scanned house and draws your proposal live — walls moving, roof pitching, extensions growing. You see it happen. You tweak it in the call.
By the time you hang up, you'll know: your probable planning route (permitted development vs. full planning), your build cost range, and what the next drawing looks like.
Your drawings land in the portal in stages: planning set first, building regs to follow. Mark up anything you want changed — a window moved, a wall thickened, a ceiling higher. We redraft until you're happy.
On Standard and Premium, we also build you a specification your builder can price without guesswork.
We submit your application, pay the council on your behalf, and reply to every query. If they want more information, we draft it. If they want written statements, we write them. You get a phone notification when the decision lands.
If they refuse — which happens in 6% of our cases — we redraft and resubmit at no extra charge. That's a promise in writing.
Once your drawings are signed off, we refer your project to every builder in our Trusted Network in your area — 60–70 contractors who've either worked on Arkiplan projects before or passed our initial vetting.
They each come back with a ballpark cost estimate and their earliest availability. You pick who you want to meet, and go through their normal quoting routine from there.
Arkiplan vs. the traditional route
Find out what your build will cost in 45 seconds, or book a no-obligation 10-minute discovery call.