April’s Finance Monthly, a global, multiplatform publication targeting corporate executives, has explored some of the challenges facing super prime property developers in achieving complex planning permissions in some of the capital’s most exclusive postcodes.

In an interview with Italian architect, Marco Braghiroli, the founder and managing director of Prestige Exclusive Lifestyle Ltd, Mr Braghioli highlights the complexities inherent in the bold and ambitious architectural projects on which Rigby and Rigby has built its reputation, commenting that “architectural projects are a complex jigsaw of synergies between multiple specialist consultants, facing numerous challenges.”

He cites the example of Westminster, which has made changes to its policies on the basements. He continues: “(This) meant that we needed to work even closer with high calibre consultants, such as Rigby and Rigby and Savills Planning, to help us respond to such changes in legislations and minimize uncertainties during the design process ensuring the project is delivered successfully to client’s needs.”

Rigby and Rigby’s award-winning Architectural Practice offers a turnkey solution for clients. Using the latest Building Information Modelling software and cutting edge 3D printing facilities, our architects and designers work collaboratively with Rigby & Rigby engineering and construction colleagues, to deliver designs which reflect a wide range of architectural disciplines.

In a decade the firm has never had planning refused – despite operating in some of the most coveted and highly sensitive residential communities in the capital – delivering a 100 per cent success rate, of which 99 per cent is at first application stage.

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