Commercial & Roadside

A roadside scheme is a highways problem, a planning problem and a brand problem before it is an architectural one. Vehicle tracking, queue lengths, access and egress, and the relationship between the pump, the store and the drive-thru lane all constrain the building before a single elevation is drawn.

Designing in that order — movement first, then the envelope — is what keeps a scheme deliverable. It is also what stops the redesign that follows a highways objection, which is the most common and most expensive delay on this kind of site.

Operators building multiple sites need consistency between them and flexibility within each one. We work from the operator's own standards and brand requirements, then resolve the site-specific conditions around them, so each scheme is recognisably the same offer without pretending every plot is the same shape.

That means drawings issued in a consistent format, site to site, that an internal team and a contractor can both read without relearning them each time.

Forecourt and roadside operators, franchise partners, EV charge point operators, and developers acquiring roadside plots. If a site is under offer subject to planning, the useful conversation usually starts with feasibility rather than design.