Some time ago my H and I decided to extend the house. A friend of a friend of a friend recommend a 'cheap architect '. when he visited we just chatted about what we want and asked to send us any info we got. So we sent a plan of house and a plot from title deeds (important to mention that there's a visibility splay which we are not allowed to build on) and screenshot of a zoopla page with an old advert of our house where some indicative sizes and floor plans were shown and said that we don't have exact measurements. Later an A sent us a draft with an extension which looked very wrong size wise. My H did the measurements and it appeared that A tried to fit those indicative sizes into indicative floor plans and the result was not our house at all. We messaged back , he came again re measured the external walls and asked us to do all internal measurements , which we did and sent him it as a digital plan(my H is in engineering, so can easily produce those). While waiting my H draw an extension plan himself and sent it over to an A. At that point A suggested to start getting quotes from builders. One of the companies looked at my H plan and noticed that it crosses the visibility line and most probably will be rejected by planning office. My H messaged A saying that plan needs to be redone (no more plans from A) and started playing with ideas of how to fit the max area extension within restrictions. A bit later my H came up which he thought a brilliant idea of an irregular shape extension. Again sent it over to A asking if that would work. A replied that he is going to start producing plans for an application.
A week after builders visited us to have a look at site and looked at our plan version 2 . They pointed out that it has several flaws and that its unlikely be accepted due to its shape . They also sent us a drawing with a proposed extension which was just perfect, simple and clever. At this point my H and I were very disappointed with our A and messaged him not to proceed any further with our extension. He got back to asking how better to invoice us?
I would like opinions if we should pay anything at all as we never seen any work done by him only first wrong dimensions plan. All other plans and measurements we done by us.
Thanks.