About the Business

Conservatory Price Quote was started in early 2008 by Clair Taylor. She was looking for a new conservatory on the internet and realized that there was a gap in the market for conservatory quotes web site just like the large home insurance or holiday flights market web sites.

Armed with a business plan and the drive that working At both Sky TV and Rolls Royce for the previous 8 years had given her, since graduating from the London Business School in 1999. Clair set about contacting web designers with her idea. Clair Commented “I initially contacted several web designers and paid them to come up with a few ideas about how the site would look. Eventually I found a designer who I was happy to work with and who was happy to put up with my tight deadlines”.

The next job was to contact hundreds of conservatory suppliers throughout the U.K. to build a database of prices, styles and designs. All needed to be put in to a database by a computer programmer and took many months of work, so that customers could receive an instant price for their conservatory when filling in the enquiry form. The web site eventually went live in May 2008.

Since then conservatory price quote has grown from providing 1000 quotes in 2008 to providing 10,000 last year in 2015. The workforce has also grown from just Clair to now having 8 full time employees across 3 offices around the U.K. Clair commented “It's been hard work, I'm glad started out this adventure and Chris my husband has been very understanding with all the hours I had to put in during the first few years. We have grown every year since we started and hopefully saved customers thousands of pounds in the process with our conservatory quote database”.

Business Services

Conservatories

Conservatories

Under the new Planning regulations that came into effect in October 2008 adding a conservatory to your house is to be considered to be permitted development up to a certain size and projection (see below), a Planning application will be required if the new conservatory exceeds any of the following:

  • No more than half the area of land around the 'original house'* would to be covered by extensions or other out buildings.
  • No conservatory forward of the principal elevation or side elevation fronting towards a highway, a highway would include public footpaths and roads.
  • A single storey rear conservatory must not extend beyond the rear wall of the 'original house'* by more than 3 metres (semi-detached / terrace house) and 4 metres for a detached house.
  • The maximum height of the new conservatory to be 4 metres. This would mean any part of the conservatory including the ridge.
  • No conservatory to be higher than the highest part of the original house roof.
  • The maximum eaves height of a conservatory within 2 metres of the boundary of 3 metres high.
  • The roof pitch of a conservatory higher than one storey to match the existing house.
  • A new conservatory to be single storey with maximum height of 4 metres and width no more than half that of the original house.
  • On certain designated land* no permitted development for rear conservatories of more than one storey; no cladding of the exterior; no side conservatories.
Location & Hours

Three Colt St

Canary Wharf, E14 8HH
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