Soldato
Well my partner just spoke to her sister-in-law again and the solicitors based at the estate agents she works at offered to do us family discount brining the entire package down to about £1100 but the caveat is that they're near London and we are in Bristol. She said more or less everything is done online via a secure portal though.
My solicitor was about a 10 min drive away but I didn't have to go and see them at all, I did most stuff via scan to email using the big scanner at work, so I could just email them docs.
Some stuff had to be delivered like the contracts though.