Buildings that work. Planning that passes.
Dragon Architecture specialises in helping farmers and smallholders across Wales secure planning permission for barns and rural buildings — from first site visit to decision notice.
Dragon Architecture specialises in helping farmers and smallholders across Wales secure planning permission for barns and rural buildings — from first site visit to decision notice.
Straight answers on what your holding can support, and which planning route gets you there.
Start a conversation →Elevations, floor plans and sections for barns, stores, yards and dwellings — to validation standard.
View examples →Design & access statements plus accurate OS-based site and location plans, drawn right first time.
Ask about your site →We lodge the application, handle validation, and liaise with the case officer until you have a decision.
Hand it over →Dragon Architecture is run from a working holding in rural Carmarthenshire. We understand stock, machinery, access and weather — not just drawing conventions — so the buildings we design actually work on a farm, and the applications we write speak the planning officer's language.
Most agricultural applications fail on paperwork, not principle. We prepare every drawing and document the authority expects to see, so your application goes in once, complete.
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Barns · Stores · Prior notification & full apps
Oak-framed & timber structures
Agricultural ties · TAN 6 cases
Huts · Yards · Access tracks
Planning in Wales runs on Planning Policy Wales and Welsh TANs — not the English NPPF. Permitted development rights and agricultural rules differ from England, and applying English assumptions is one of the commonest ways rural applications fail.
The 28-day route for buildings and tracks on agricultural units — and when it applies to your holding.
TAN 6 functional and financial tests for dwellings tied to agricultural businesses.
Complete drawing and document packages for Welsh authorities, prepared to validation standard.
Barn conversions, extensions and domestic buildings on agricultural holdings.
Dragon Architecture is led by William Holland, who farms and works from a rural holding at Mile End Farm, Trevaughan, near Carmarthen. The practice specialises exclusively in agricultural and rural domestic work across Wales.
Every project gets the same approach: straight advice first, careful drawings second, and an application argued properly. If a project isn't achievable, we'll offer the best advice on the alternatives.
Get in touchA short conversation is usually enough to tell you whether a project is worth pursuing and what route it should take.