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Start-Ready resources

Useful material for one decision at a time.

Some resources are published now. Others show the proposed scope while we gather the evidence or complete the working template. Nothing is labelled complete before it exists.

Why we are building them

Owners often have one burning question, not a desire to commission a broad review.

Start-Ready makes the first layer of our experience available without charge. The free resources help you ask better questions and understand the likely route. The £395 Decision Pack becomes relevant when you want a professional to interpret the assessment position, order the actions and identify the evidence that should be obtained. The £950 Resolution Plan is the stage at which relevant actual project evidence is professionally reviewed.

01 · Planning and start readiness

Can a builder start once planning permission is granted?

A plain-English distinction between having permission and having a coordinated, supportable route to construction.

Inside
  • The separate approvals and consents that may still apply
  • A pre-commencement condition check
  • Questions to put to the professional team before fixing the date
02 · Contractor and commercial

What to check before paying a builder’s deposit or mobilisation sum

A client-side checklist for understanding what a substantial early payment buys, what protects it and what becomes due next.

Inside
  • Payment purpose and deliverables
  • Contract, programme, insurance and ownership questions
  • A written confirmation request you can adapt
03 · Planning conditions

Pre-commencement planning conditions: an owner’s evidence check

How to identify conditions that must be addressed before the relevant development starts and record the evidence supporting discharge.

Inside
  • Condition-by-condition status record
  • Submission and decision references
  • Owner, dependency and programme fields
04 · Freeholder and managing agent

Licence to alter readiness guide

What to establish before leasehold works are treated as designed, tender-ready or ready to start.

Inside
  • Lease and alterations-process questions
  • Submission-package checklist
  • Conditions, fees, deposits and inspection dependencies
05 · Project information control

Residential project evidence register

A concise record of the documents, dates, revisions and decisions relied upon when a residential project moves towards construction.

Inside
  • Document and revision fields
  • Self-reported, extracted, reviewed and externally confirmed statuses
  • Owner, action and dependency fields
06 · Neighbours and access

Party Wall, access, scaffold and oversailing: four different questions

A guide to separating statutory Party Wall matters from access, scaffold, crane oversailing and neighbour agreements.

Inside
  • A four-part issue map
  • Evidence and owner fields
  • Questions for the architect, contractor, surveyor and legal adviser
07 · Programme readiness

Five reasons a proposed residential start date may not yet be supported

A cross-workstream explanation of why a plausible date can still depend on unresolved approvals, information and agreements.

Inside
  • Five common dependency patterns
  • Questions to test the programme
  • A support, assumption and unresolved classification
08 · Client communication

Mobilisation payment confirmation request

A structured request for the contractor to confirm the basis, protections, deliverables and programme consequences of an early payment.

Inside
  • Editable request wording
  • Evidence attachment schedule
  • Response and escalation fields
09 · Worked example

Anatomy of a Start-Ready case record

An anonymised format showing how a self-reported warning becomes a professionally prioritised decision route, and when evidence-led work is required.

Inside
  • Initial position and limitations
  • Priority route
  • Evidence requests and actions
10 · Market evidence

Quarterly Start-Ready findings

A transparent, aggregated note on repeated readiness gaps, questions and action patterns identified through the service.

Inside
  • Sample and methodology statement
  • Aggregated patterns only
  • Limitations and change log
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