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If you've decided to plough ahead with expanding your premises, make sure your essential services come highly recommended and you have a contingency plan for delays, advises Gayle Goshorn.

Increasing capacity in the current market can make good commercial sense for established nurseries which want to build on the free entitlement for threeand four-year-olds and attract more two-year-olds under the funded offer.

Another spur to growth is the UK's well-documented baby boom, as Jacqui Johnson, manager of GP Surveyors, points out. She advises nurseries that when it comes to expansion there could be more options for increasing capacity than they may realise.

'We are encouraging nurseries to reassess their internal space and think of it as a blank canvas,' she says. 'Could they switch rooms to allow for more two-year-olds? Could they reposition walls or make an under-utilised entrance hall smaller? Could they make better use of loft space or build an additional floor?'

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