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SCALA architects are an RIBA Chartered Practice based in London designing buildings and spaces all over the south-east

13/03/2026

Second planning success in a week!

We are delighted to say our Furrow House in Highbury received Planning Permission today, going through the process completely unamended.

Client got 100% of what they wanted and we applied for. Not a common outcome but testament to the hard work and dedication of our team whatever the size of project they tackle.

Work on site to start in May with a 16-week programme.

05/03/2026

We are delighted to have secured Full Planning Permission for The Church of God Pentecostal - Freedom Worship Centre in Ealing, West London.

As their architects we are proud to have assisted the Church in securing the base for their Ministry well into the future with a building embedded in the community the Church has served for over 60 years.

The site has been a place of Christian worship since at least 1876 and the new development is the latest phase of the evolution of the site, providing vital and much needed services to the local community.

With leadership provided by Bishop Lloyd Crossfield and Pastor Verona Crossfield, the Design Team, led by SCALA architects, have created a series of individual but linked buildings each part having a distinct role to play in delivering the Church’s Ministry.

15/01/2026

Today we said goodbye to our former Marketing Director Bijoux Senayah.

Bijoux joined the practice in 2016 and drove our online presence organising seminars and events including our 21st birthday party and exhibition at the Building Centre in 2018.

She left in 2020 but continued to help the practice on an ad hoc basis until last year.

We were all stunned to hear of her passing in December.

Bijoux was a force of nature, a genuine dial mover. Things happened when she was involved. Amongst her many gifts was the ability to take people with her when they didn’t always want to go, myself included.

We are all heartbroken and the world is a poorer place.

10/01/2026

We have been appointed by this homeowner to assist them with a Listed Building application to normalise completed work by a previous owner on their new house in the heart of the Angel Islington, after threats of enforcement action from the local Planning Department.

It is not an uncommon situation and many building owners are either unaware or dismissive of their responsibilities in relation to work on their Listed Building.

Consent for any changes to the fabric of a Listed structure, inside or outside, whether visible or not, needs to be sought from the Local Authority.

Planning Permission is often, but not always, required depending on the scale and scope of the work.

These statutory requirements can sometimes appear onerous, particularly when the changes are modest, or not even visible, but the cumulative effects of many small changes can be significant over time and the regulations are there to protect what are, in the end, privately owned community assets.

A small price to pay for preserving historic or important elements of our shared built environment?

06/01/2026

Our ‘Furrow House’ project is in for Planning. A simple extension with some cool and restrained engineering creating a much enlarged family space better integrated into the south facing garden.

23/10/2025

We are delighted to have been asked to produce proposals for the redesign and fit-out of offices in the City of London for a large global mining company who are consolidating their UK operations to London.

Culture change isn’t included in the brief, but as is often the case with projects like this, it becomes part of the redesign.

16/10/2025

We are pleased to have been appointed as architects to work on the refurbishment and enlargement of a Victorian house and garden on Ronalds Road, in what we think is our 7th project on this street in Highbury.

This particular homeowner has been a client for many years, going back to 2003, and we are delighted to be working with them again on refurbishing and expanding their new home.

06/10/2025

We are pleased to have been instructed to prepare development proposals for a client for their Grade II* Listed office building and site in central historic St. Albans, Hertfordshire.

We are lucky that this client understands the quality of the heritage asset that they own which gives the team the framework to develop the design and create a vision that is both sympathetic to its history and sustainable.

30/09/2025

DOING THE RIGHT THING

Yes, this is a post about a handrail. Today, a small but important planning success for our project in the Highbury Hill Conservation Area in Islington, North London.

This client was keen to do things properly, so we were instructed to apply for Planning and Conservation Area consent for the upgrade of an existing external terrace, including the installation of new handrails, to bring the space into Building Control compliance.

Although needing full planning consent for apparently minor change to Listed Buildings or buildings in Conservation Areas can feel like using a sledgehammer to crack a walnut, that is not the point.

The rules that often make Conservation Areas desirable places to live or work, a fact reflected in property prices in those areas, are there to protect the character of a house, street or whole district.

So, this client now has all her consents and permissions in place for when she decides to sell the apartment, without any of the headaches of having to apply for retrospective planning permission or a certificate of lawful development or even take a significant cut to the asking price to protect the prospective buyer against future enforcement action.

All those options are way more expensive, time-consuming and without a guarantee of outcome, than doing the right thing in the first place.

12/05/2025

Another planning success! You may recall, this client was told by their former designers, that their ambitions were too great and they should accept a sub-optimal scheme to get it through planning. Only then did they realise that the scheme they had gained planning permission for wasn’t what they really wanted or needed. That’s when they approached SCALA architects and we took the project on.

Five months later and through calm reasoning and thoughtful design, the planning consent they really wanted was finally granted by LB Islington last week.

Another example of the team’s robust and considered approach to tricky planning situations where successfully balancing many conflicting needs and requirements is our practice’s superpower!

16/04/2025

Office day out to the David Hockney exhibition at the Frank Gehry designed Louis Viutton Foundation in Paris.

Joyful and unpretentious with light touch curation and rooms switching calmly between themes and chronology.

Well worth a visit if you’re in the area or a special trip if you’re not.

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