RIBA Chartered Architects
London & Essex

Designing more than buildings · Chartered Architects, London & Essex

What you can build,
and whether it's
worth building.

Most architects will tell you what fits and whether it will get permission. We answer the other half of the question too — what it does to the value of your property.

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ARB Registered ArchitectRIBA CharteredBREEAM Accredited ProfessionalCDM 2015 Principal Designer300+ Projects delivered
Dandi Passerini
Led by Dandi Passerini, RIBA Chartered Architect
ARB registered · BREEAM Accredited Professional · twenty years of residential design in London and Essex
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The difference

Two questions, one practice.

Planning viability and financial viability get answered by different people, at different times, usually too late. We do both, in one place, before you commit.

01

Planning

Applications, lawful development certificates, appeals and resubmissions, discharge of conditions. Constraints, precedent and policy read properly — we know what Redbridge, Waltham Forest and Epping actually approve.

02

Design & delivery

Full RIBA Stages 0–7. Concept through construction drawings, building regulations, specifications, site management and Principal Designer duties under CDM 2015.

03

Property investment

Comparable sales, local price ceilings, value uplift and yield. The part most architects hand back to you — including the honest answer when the numbers say don't.

Start here

What can I build — and is it worth it?

Both answers for your address, before you spend anything on design. The Property Insight Report reads planning constraints, precedent and policy on one side, and market position and value on the other — in your inbox within 30 minutes.

Then a 30-minute call with a chartered architect to go through it with you, and the fee is credited in full against your project if you go on to commission us.

See a full sample report →What's included →

Both halves, one document

  1. 01Planning authority, constraints and designations
  2. 02Heritage, ecology and rights of way
  3. 03Planning history at your address
  4. 04What neighbours have been approved for
  5. 05Development potential — our read
  6. 06Area profile, amenities and connectivity
  7. 07Sale history and comparable sales
  8. 08Valuation context, yield and income potential
£195Includes the 30-minute call.
Credited against your fee on commission.

Selected work

Twenty years of residential design, from Essex outwards.

More than three hundred projects, concentrated across London and Essex — with work reaching as far as East Africa and China. Every pin is a scheme Dandi has taken through planning, construction, or both — at the practices she worked with over twenty years, and now as DZP Studio. Each pin names the practice and her role.

Pan and zoom to explore. Each pin opens the project — designed and managed by Dandi during her time at the practice named on the pin; the newest are DZP Studio.Open the full map →

All case studies and earlier work →

The full portfolio

Twenty years of selected work as a single PDF — drawings beside the finished buildings, project by project.

Free — we email it straight over. We'll occasionally share new projects and guides; unsubscribe any time. [Wire to an email service at launch · consent wording to match the privacy policy]

What clients say

In their words, not ours.

★★★★★

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★★★★★

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[Project type] · [Area] · [Year] · [Source]

★★★★★

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Placeholders — do not publish. Replace each with a genuine client quote, used with written permission. Fake or incentivised reviews have been unlawful in the UK since April 2025 under the DMCC Act 2024, and the CMA can fine directly. With 300+ completed projects the material is already there — see the outreach email in testimonial-request.md (studio repo).

The practice

A family practice, chartered and insured.

Led by Dandi Passerini, RIBA Chartered Architect and BREEAM Accredited Professional, alongside Salvatore Passerini, Managing Director — working with an established group of trusted builders, structural engineers, planning consultants and surveyors brought in as each project needs them, and coordinated by us.

Over twenty years of residential design and delivery, and more than three hundred projects across London and Essex. Meet the practice →

20+
Years
300+
Projects
0–7
RIBA stages
9
Consultant disciplines

Get in touch

Tell us about the project.

Whether it is a first conversation or a scheme someone else has already started, we are happy to hear where you have got to.

If you would rather arrive with facts than questions, start with the Property Insight Report — the fee is credited against your project if you go on to commission us.

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