Improvement Plan
Once an offer is accepted, many buyers still face major decisions about how a home could be improved. For those planning to adapt or reconfigure a property, questions around feasibility, disruption, planning, and cost often remain unresolved as conveyancing progresses. Too often, this insight is considered separately or too late in the process, sometimes only after exchange, when buyers are already committed. The Improvement Plan brings this expertise together at the moment it matters most, before exchange.
Building on the Survey Costing & Post-Offer Negotiation service, the Improvement Plan runs alongside conveyancing to assess feasibility, test improvement options, and provide early cost context while you can still walk away. This allows you to proceed with confidence, refine the deal, step away with clarity, or fast-track renovation planning towards an improved home.
Who this service is for
The Improvement Plan is for buyers who want to shape and improve a property and need confidence that their plans are viable before committing to both the purchase and the renovation that follows.
It is particularly suited to those who are:
Planning to improve, adapt, or reconfigure a home
Unsure how survey findings affect renovation scope
Wanting confidence that their plans are feasible before committing
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What the Improvement Plan gives you
The Improvement Plan gives you a single, joined-up strategy to decide whether a property can become the home you want, and what it will realistically take to get there, before you commit.
It provides:
A holistic improvement strategy covering condition, feasibility, design, and cost
Early architectural designs to test realistic layout and renovation options
High-level cost insight to help understand likely total investment
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How the Improvement Plan works
The Improvement Plan runs alongside conveyancing and is designed to give clarity before exchange. It includes all elements of Survey Costing & Post-Offer Negotiation, then builds on that foundation to assess future potential.
Define ambitions and constraints
We begin with a briefing discussion to understand how you want the home to work, your improvement ambitions, budget range, timescales and tolerance for disruption.
Survey review, costing, and renegotiation
(Includes Survey Costing & Post-Offer Negotiation)
We review your RICS HomeBuyer Survey or Building Survey, identifying defects, risks, and recommended works. These are translated into realistic repair costs, allowances, and contingencies by a qualified Quantity Surveyor.
Where survey findings introduce new information not reasonably understood at the point of offer, renegotiation support can be included within the process, with any success-based element agreed clearly in advance.
Want more detail on how post-survey renegotiation works?
Planning feasibility and improvement options
(Additional Improvement Plan scope)
We review the planning context and key constraints with a qualified planning consultant, helping you understand what changes or extensions may be realistically achievable before you commit.
This gives you a clearer view of which ambitions appear well-supported, which may need more caution, and which are unlikely. It also provides the planning basis for the sketch designs and improvement proposals developed within the Improvement Plan, so decisions are grounded in realistic expectations before design work begins.
Optional add-on - Local Planning Assessment
Where useful, we can also review nearby planning activity that may affect the setting, outlook, privacy, access, or long-term enjoyment of the property. This helps identify wider local risks or opportunities that may influence your decision before exchange.
Architectural sketch designs
(Additional Improvement Plan scope)
An architect develops early sketch plan options with you, tailored to your brief and informed by the planning feasibility review. These draft plans test reconfiguration, layout improvements, and potential extensions, helping define the likely scope of works, key cost areas, and overall improvement strategy before you commit.
The base Improvement Plan includes 2D sketch plans, prepared from available estate-agent plans or listing information. These are approximate and intended for strategic decision-making, not construction, planning submission, or measured design work.
Optional add-ons
Where greater detail is required, we can tailor the design scope to suit the property, your ambitions, and the level of confidence you need before exchange. Optional add-ons may include:
Site visit and measured survey input for more accurate modelling
3D modelling of the existing property and proposed design options
Internal or external visualisations
Walk-through animations or more detailed design studies
This part of the process is highly bespoke. The right level of design output depends on which areas of the property you wish to improve, how much detail you need before committing, and how far you want to test the future vision for the home at this stage.
Project cost estimate and timeline
(Additional Improvement Plan scope)
We prepare a high-level project cost estimate based on the sketch design options, proposed works, planning context, and agreed priorities.
Benchmarked against typical UK construction pricing, this gives you a practical budget guide before exchange. It helps you understand the likely scale of investment, key cost areas, and how design choices may affect the overall budget.
Where useful, we also outline a broad project timeline for design, approvals, tendering, and construction.
Holistic strategy and decision point
(Additional Improvement Plan scope)
We bring together survey findings, cost context, planning feasibility, and design options into a single joined-up view, providing clarity on total investment, phasing and risk.
You are then in a position to proceed with confidence, refine the deal, adjust scope or step away before exchange.
After the Improvement Plan: next steps
Once the Improvement Plan is complete, you have a clear brief, budget context and strategy to move forward.
You can appoint a local architect and team yourself, ask us to help tender and appoint suitable consultants, or for selected projects, continue with our in-house True Architecture Delivery team. Each route is designed to carry the project forward with clarity, coordination, and cost control.
FAQs
How is the Improvement Plan different from Survey Costing & Post-Offer Negotiation?
Does the Improvement Plan include renegotiation?
Do I still need a survey to use this service?
Does this replace advice from my surveyor or solicitor?
Does the Improvement Plan commit me to using True Architecture?
What happens if I decide not to proceed with the purchase?
Can this service be combined with other True Value services?
Will you negotiate directly with the seller or agent?
What happens after the Improvement Plan?
Is this service suitable for smaller or phased projects?
Client experience
“True Value helped me assess the house in more detail and it soon became clear that the condition of the house was actually worse than what the agent and seller had realised. They provided a realistic cost estimate for the renovation, while also exploring how I could improve and extend the property.”
Nina Nielsen
Pricing
Prices are quoted exclusive of VAT.
Improvement Plan
Bespoke Proposals Starting from
of the accepted property price + agreed improvement or renovation budget
All fees are agreed on a case-by-case basis relative to the property value and scope of the design works.
Re-negotiation support
Of any reduction achieved from the accepted offer price
For example, if a £20,000 reduction is agreed following renegotiation, the fee would be £2,000.
This fee is only payable if a reduction is secured and complete on the property.
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