Our Services

Thoughtful, sustainable design tailored for your home.

Detailed planning drawings focused on energy efficiency and natural materials.

We offer Life Cycle Assessments to support eco-friendly building choices.

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Planning Drawing and Life Cycle Assessment Services

At Storm Architectural Design, we provide a tailored suite of design and sustainability services that support our clients from initial concept to informed, future-ready decisions. Our approach seamlessly blends creative architectural planning with robust environmental insight, enabling clients to realise well-designed, comfortable, and sustainable homes.

Planning Drawings — Clear, Efficient, and Buildable Documentation

Planning drawings are a foundational service that sets the stage for any successful architectural project. Our planning drawing service is engineered to be both practical and visionary, combining technical precision with thoughtful design intent.

What We Deliver

• Site Plans: Accurately scaled drawings showing the relationship of your property within its context — essential for local authority planning submissions.

• Existing and Proposed Floor Plans: Detailed layouts illustrating both the current state and planned changes to spaces.

• Elevations and Sections: Orthographic views that communicate height, materials, and spatial relationships.

• Design Integration: Drawings that reflect sustainable principles, passive design concepts, and responsible material decisions. Storm Architectural Design

Our planning drawings do more than satisfy regulatory requirements — they articulate your design vision, support meaningful decision-making, and act as a clear reference for consultants and builders. Whether for new builds, extensions, renovations or self-build projects, we ensure documentation is compliant, coherent, and aligned with both aesthetic and functional goals.

Key attributes of our planning drawings include:

• Clarity: Easy-to-interpret drawings for clients, planning authorities, and contractors.

• Coordination: Prepared with consideration for structural and sustainability requirements.

• Compliance: Drawings that meet statutory standards for planning applications.

By delivering planning drawings that are both technically rigorous and design-oriented, we help clients advance successfully through the planning system and onto the next phases of their project.

Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) — Informed Sustainability Analysis

Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) is a structured methodology for analysing the environmental impacts of a building or service throughout its entire life cycle — from material extraction to construction, use, and end-of-life disposal. Wikipedia

At Storm Architectural Design, our LCA services equip clients with evidence-based sustainability insights that support long-term thinking and responsible design.

Why LCA Matters

• Holistic Environmental Insight: We measure and quantify carbon emissions, energy consumption, and material impacts across all life cycle stages of a building. Wikipedia

• Sustainability-Driven Decisions: By understanding the embodied and operational impacts of materials and systems, clients can prioritise choices that reduce total environmental burden.

• Compliance and Market Expectation: Sustainable design is increasingly requested by planning authorities and developers — LCA data can support planning documentation and align with sustainability regulations.

Our LCA Service Includes

• Data Collection: Collation of key inputs including materials, assemblies, and energy usage.

• Life Cycle Modelling: Assessment using recognised frameworks (e.g., cradle-to-grave stages) to quantify impacts and benchmark performance. Wikipedia

• Interpretation and Guidance: Practical recommendations that translate results into actionable decisions — such as material substitutions, design variants, or passive design enhancements.

• Reporting: Clear, client-ready reports that can be integrated into planning and sustainability submissions.

Our LCA service is designed to be transparent, accessible, and aligned with current best practices in environmental assessment. We focus on providing usable sustainability intelligence rather than abstract data, helping you make design choices that are environmentally, economically, and socially responsible.

Our Integrated Approach — Design With Purpose

Storm Architectural Design positions both planning and sustainability at the heart of your project’s success. Our methodology emphasises:

• Design Integrity: Planning drawings that articulate architectural intent while addressing practical and contextual considerations.

• Environmental Responsibility: LCA services that influence design decisions rather than merely evaluate them.

• Client Empowerment: Insights that support informed choices, reduced risk, and long-term value.

By combining detailed planning documentation with robust sustainability assessment, we help clients deliver projects that are not only beautiful and functional but resilient and future-ready.