Office Design Leeds.

Leeds has an unusually wide spread of office stock for a city its size, and the building you are in decides more about your project than your brief does. A new build floor at Wellington Place or Sovereign Square arrives as a shell or a Category A floor, with the services in place and a landlord with firm rules about what may be fixed to what. A listed Georgian floor around Park Square or East Parade comes with consent to worry about, floors that are rarely flat and services that have to be run where the building will allow rather than where the drawing would like.

Then there is converted brick down at the Calls and around Holbeck, where acoustics and heat are usually the two problems nobody budgeted for, and the business park units at Thorpe Park and White Rose, where you generally get the easiest build and the most parking, and the layout has to work harder because the shell is plain. We survey the building you have before we draw anything, because a layout that worked at Thorpe Park will fight a Georgian floor plate all the way through.

Doncaster to Leeds is about fifty minutes on the M1 and under an hour by train, so a survey, a site visit or a snagging walk round is a morning rather than an expedition. What it does not mean is that we will be there in twenty minutes because a socket is in the wrong place, and if that is what your project needs then a Leeds firm is the right answer and we would say so on the phone.

What we would put against it is that the people who draw your space are the people who then build it. The gap between what was drawn and what got built is where the money goes on a fit out, and where the blame goes with it. Under one contract there is nobody for us to hand that gap to, which matters more at distance rather than less.