Architectural drawings in Buckinghamshire

Applications by the thousand in Buckinghamshire

This is a large authority. Between July last year and June this year it decided 4,532 applications of all types, including 2,855 householder cases, and granted 86.3 per cent of the householder ones.

Speed is the weak point. Only 72.3 per cent of householder decisions came within eight weeks or an agreed extension, so we advise building a generous lead time into your plans.

That is a countywide average, offered as a planning aid and not as a prediction.

Prior approval and certificates across Buckinghamshire

In the latest published year the council granted 18 larger home extensions by prior approval and refused 48. Refusals clearly outnumbered grants.

It also decided 5 upward extensions by prior approval and refused 4. Owners applied for 943 lawful development certificates.

Our Lawful Development Certificate drawings in Buckinghamshire show your work is permitted development, in writing.

Conservation, Article 4 and trees in Buckinghamshire

The council publishes 186 conservation areas and 389 Article 4 direction areas, which remove permitted development rights in particular places. It also publishes 8,418 tree preservation zones.

With numbers like these, the constraints check is not a formality here. We run it first, free, on your exact address, and we report what restricts the work before any design fee is taken.

Listed buildings and the Green Belt in Buckinghamshire

Historic England records 5,883 list entries: 132 at Grade I, 297 at Grade II* and 5,439 at Grade II. There are 147 scheduled monuments and 41 registered parks and gardens.

28 entries appear on the Heritage at Risk Register. About 32 per cent of the county is Green Belt, so extensions there must stay in proportion to the original house.

Working with a county this size

A county of this size spans market towns, villages, commuter suburbs and open countryside, and a single set of drawings cannot assume the same answer everywhere. We therefore start each Buckinghamshire job by placing the address: which former district, which guide, which levy zone, and which constraints.

You get that summary in writing, free, before you decide to go ahead. It names the route we expect, whether permitted development, prior approval or a householder application, and the points a case officer is likely to raise.

We then draw to a fixed fee and arrange an independent check of the set. Redrawing after council comments is free until approval.

Housing, prices and the levy in Buckinghamshire

82.3 per cent of the 220,328 households live in a house or bungalow, and 70 per cent own their home. A detached house averages £858,673, a semi-detached £472,407.

The levy follows the old districts too: the Wycombe CIL Charging Schedule (West area) and Chiltern and South Bucks CIL Charging Schedule (East and South areas). The former Aylesbury Vale area has no levy at present. Elsewhere rates vary by zone, so we identify the zone for your address and state any likely charge in the hand-over pack.

Architectural drawings for Buckinghamshire homes

The usual starting points are planning drawings in Buckinghamshire and rear extension drawings. Others include garden room drawings and garage conversion plans.

Bordering areas are covered on our pages for Slough, Three Rivers and Hillingdon.