The renovation planner built specifically for UK homeowners

A generic renovation planner can give you a task list. A UK-specific planner has to handle the regulatory and trade context that shapes when work can actually happen. A kitchen extension typically needs planning permission only if it exceeds the size allowances under permitted development rights — but new electrics need Building Control approval regardless. A wall coming out between rooms might need a structural engineer and party-wall notice if it borders a neighbour. The same task list applied without that context is a recipe for £2,000 of unplanned consultancy fees and a three-week delay halfway through.

RenoTrack's planner is designed around the UK realities: building regs, party-wall considerations for terrace and semi-detached properties, listed-building constraints for older homes, GBP pricing, and the standard sequence of UK trades. Where AI generates a starting plan, it flags decisions you'll need to make and points you to where to check the official guidance rather than pretending it has the answers.

Every meaningful renovation moves through eight phases. Most go off-track in the handover between them, so it helps to plan with the seams in mind.

1. Scope and feasibility. What are you actually doing? Define the rooms, the structural changes, and the rough budget envelope. RenoTrack's AI wizard turns a paragraph of this into a starting framework you can refine.
2. Regulations and consents. Planning permission (if needed), Building Control, party-wall notice if applicable, listed-building consent for older homes. The planner flags work that typically triggers these.
3. Design. Architect drawings, structural engineer calcs, kitchen design, electrical plan. Trade quotes hinge on this — get it solid before going to multiple bids.
4. Trade procurement. Tender to builders, electricians, plumbers, kitchen fitters. RenoTrack's supplier hub keeps quotes, contact details, and references in one place per trade.
5. Strip-out and structural. Demo, structural changes, sub-floor remediation. This is where most "while we're at it" decisions happen — budget contingency for them upfront.
6. First fix. Plumbing rough-in, electrics first fix, structural making good. Everything that goes inside walls.
7. Second fix and finishing. Plastering, decoration, kitchen install, tiling, second-fix electrics, snags. Where the project visibly comes back together.
8. Final inspection and sign-off. Building Control completion certificate, electrical certificates, gas safety. Don't forget these — they matter when you sell.

No renovation plan survives first contact with the property. Things show up under the floor that no one anticipated. Suppliers fall out and have to be replaced. A delivery slips three weeks and pushes everything downstream. A good planner has to be more than a static document — it has to absorb change without forcing you to start over.

RenoTrack handles this by keeping tasks, suppliers, dependencies, and the budget in the same system. If a task moves by a week, downstream tasks update automatically. If a supplier is replaced, every task assigned to them carries the swap. If a quote changes, the budget category updates in real time. The renovation always looks like where it actually is — not where you wrote it down to be in week one.

For phased projects (kitchen this year, bathroom next year, loft conversion in two years) the planner can carry multiple phases at once so the budget and schedule reflect the full picture rather than just the active phase.