Architects for the whole of Greater Manchester
If you live anywhere in Greater Manchester and are thinking about extending or reconfiguring your home, Pride Road can support you. We help families improve light, space and flow, and we guide you through every stage from ideas to permissions.
Strong planning insight across Greater Manchester
Each borough has its own planning policies and expectations. We guide you through what is likely to be approved and where you may need a different approach. This local understanding helps make your project smoother and more predictable.
What we can help you with
We offer design, planning and building regulations support for
Our workshops help you explore options and make confident decisions before you start any building work.
Why choose Pride Road Greater Manchester
We offer friendly expertise, clear guidance and design ideas that help your home feel brighter, calmer and more joyful to live in.
Ready to start building your dream spaces?
Booking a free consultation or a paid workshop with Pride Road is easy!
First, enter your postcode to find your local architect and their diary, then, choose a date & time that suits you and confirm your booking!
Lisa Grant
10 months ago
Great experience, well worth the time and cost. Magda took us through various options, checking on our thoughts and ideas throughout and making really useful suggestions, drawing on experience of past projects. We now have fine decisions to make but it’s great to know what works and how it could look! Looking forward to bringing the plans to life! Thank you Magda!
Response from the owner 9 months ago
Thank you!
Steve Rolf
2 years ago
Fantastic workshop with Magda which really helped clarify the options for extending our house in terms of space, budget, etc. Thank you!
Response from the owner 2 years ago
Thanks, it was great to meet you Steve !
John Atkins
2 years ago
The preparatory work and, ‘on the spot’, thinking through of ideas that Magda carried out were very helpful in giving a clear vision of possible design and change solutions. Beforehand I did not really grasp the workshop concept that was proposed, but the experience was very informative and thought provoking. Overall, a highly recommended exercise.
Response from the owner 2 years ago
Thank you! 
Iván García
3 years ago
Excellent work and help from Magda Häner (Pride Road, Manchester) on our house renovation and extension project!
Response from the owner 3 years ago
Our pleasure to work with you Ivan. 
Melanie Lough
3 years ago
We are still in the early stages of our extension, but I can highly recommend Pride Road (and Magda) for the creativity brought to the initial design process. Magda brought really interesting ideas to our attention we hadn’t considered, particularly in terms of maximising much-needed storage space. She also facilitated getting planning approval!
Response from the owner 3 years ago
Thank you Mel
Joe Deville
3 years ago
Magda and Pride Road were brilliant. Ours was a smallish but also fairly unusual job: adding a new door from our basement to the garden, including some digging down. Pride Road came up with a really clever design that made the most out of a relatively small space, including a new three quarter height boiler room. They also advised on how to manage the process with engineers (given it involved some underpinning we wanted to be absolutely sure everything would be fully structurally sound). We are so happy with the end result.
Response from the owner 3 years ago
Thanks!
Martin Dickson
3 years ago
Magda and Alan planned some internal renovation work ahead of us getting a new kitchen in our 3 bed semi-detached Victorian in south Manchester. We discussed a few plans including potential extension but ended up sticking to a relatively simple one involving removing a structural wall and chimney breast. They recommended builders who did a good job. We’re very happy with the outcome and would definitely recommend working with Pride Road for a project like this.
Response from the owner 3 years ago
Thank you! Design is always a journey and it’s great to explore and enjoy it. The more you know the better decisions can be made.
Sarah Childs
3 years ago
We started working with Pride Road in October 2021. They have been thorough and considered throughout. Their suggestions for space, light and storage went way above anything we could have thought of ourselves. Despite not choosing project management they worked closely with our builder when questions were raised.
Response from the owner 3 years ago
Thank you, I can’t wait to see the lovely front doors that are arriving soon! 
Kerry Smith
3 years ago
Very disappointing. On starting work, we found that there were big issues with the plans which the builder has thankfully helped us sort out. The joists were marked as running the wrong way and the stairs had to be redesigned as the measurements meant that they didn't get to the first floor. The size of the upstairs rooms are also very different to the plans. We didn't hear from Lisa , the architect, once we'd paid for the plans. Feel like we might as well have opted for a technician rather than an architect and saved several thousands of pounds.
Response from the owner 3 years ago
Hi Kerry. It’s Magda here, you had placed your comment in a different branch of PR.I’m sorry to hear that you were disappointed. I had passed your concern to Lisa and she will contact you directly to see what she can help.
Elizabeth Whittaker
5 years ago
We had an online workshop with Magda. She was extremely helpful, professional and efficient. She really listened to everything we wanted and responded to our thoughts quickly, realistically and practically. Overall, we have some excellent ideas of varying cost and complexity with short term and long term plans to match our financial needs. She was very flexible in providing options to meet our timeframe too. She provided a clear breakdown of all the costs involved and other services we would require. I highly recommend Magda.
Alan Old
6 years ago
We did a design workshop with Magda at Pride Road South Manchester. It was a great experience and she came up with several options to meet the brief we gave her. Magda came up with some ideas we hadn’t and almost certainly wouldn’t have come up with on our own and it was great to be able to explore our own ideas with her to get expert feedback regarding local planning regs, feasibility and likely return on investment. We’ve been thinking of doing a design workshop for a while and really pleased we decided to do it with Magda
Rachel Chenery
6 years ago
Magda & Alan are professional & knowledgeable. The workshop is brilliant, So much better than sending plans back & forth. We were able to discuss in real time what we wanted & she drew plans to reflect that & made some really good suggestions.
Emily Jones
7 years ago
I contacted Pride road as I really liked how the stages were set out and the transparency of the costs and the initial workshops. Magda was great and worked with me on my ideas but also offered really good alternatives and made me think differently. She was always available when I had queries in between meetings and has been really patient with how long the process has taken (our doing and not pride road as they have met every deadline they communicated). Alan was also really helpful and responded quickly with queries. I would not hesitate to recommend them! Thank you
Stephanie Briers
9 years ago
Some excellent design ideas and plans for a new single story extension. Magda was professional, on time and creative. She advised on 'next steps' for us to take before we go any further and when she left we felt we had a better idea of how the whole project would proceed. I would recommend this professional unreservedly. It might be useful making contact with Pride Road before a workshop in case you can provide any further documentation that they may find useful. We had previous scaled drawings of our property which saved a lot of time.
