Architectural drawings in Haringey

Article 4 directions, conservation areas and listed buildings

Haringey publishes 25 Article 4 directions, mapped as 25 separate areas, over the top of 33 conservation areas. A direction removes a specific permitted development right, so the same house can lose its rights to change a front window, add a porch or alter a roof without an application.

Historic England records 289 entries in the borough: 6 at Grade I, 21 at Grade II* and 258 at Grade II. A further 21 appear on the Heritage at Risk Register. Listed building consent is a separate application with its own heritage justification.

Our free constraints check reads each layer for your address, so you learn which rights survive before you spend on a design.

Trees add a further wrinkle on many streets. We plot the significant ones on the survey and keep foundations and rear additions clear of their roots, which avoids a late redesign when the case officer asks about them.

Prior approval is a closer call than the headline rate suggests

The national statistics for the latest year record 13 larger home extension prior approvals granted and 19 refused. Refusals outnumber grants, so a deep single-storey rear extension is not a safe bet even when the national limits seem to allow it.

By contrast the borough took in 396 lawful development certificate applications, a large number for its size. Owners clearly value written proof that their work is lawful, and a Lawful Development Certificate in Haringey starts at £645.

When the prior approval looks fragile we recommend a householder application instead. The drawings are largely the same, but the council then weighs the design on its merits.

How the council has decided householder cases

In its latest twelve months Haringey decided 689 householder applications. It granted 90.3 per cent and decided 94.3 per cent within eight weeks or an agreed extension. The national series gives a close picture: 702 decisions, 90.9 per cent granted.

Minor applications, such as a house split into flats, fared worse, with 82.2 per cent granted across 617 decisions. If your scheme adds a unit, plan for a harder conversation than a rear extension would bring.

Time is kinder to you than the outcome: the national series shows 95 per cent of householder decisions made in time. We treat that as a planning aid for your builder and nothing more, since only the council can decide your application.

Homes, prices and the levy zones

Of 105,092 households, 38.9 per cent live in a house or bungalow and 37.2 per cent own their home. Prices vary widely: a terraced house averaged £803,381, a semi-detached house £1,235,802 and a detached house £2,460,369.

The Mayor's levy sits at band 2, £72.73 per square metre this year. The council's own schedule, the Haringey CIL Charging Schedule 2022, is far steeper in the west than the east: £443.52/m² (Western zone); £276.16/m² (Central zone); £60.24/m² (Eastern zone). Gardens cover 26.6 per cent of the land, so back-garden extensions are common, and so is a levy bill.

The borough also has an Article 4 direction on small houses in multiple occupation. A family house turned into a shared home needs its own application, and HMO conversion drawings in Haringey begin with that check.

Architectural drawings in Haringey: services and nearby councils

Most owners begin with planning drawings in Haringey or rear extension drawings in Haringey. When the design is fixed, the technical sheets follow as building regulations drawings in Haringey.

Every set is checked by a second chartered technologist before submission, and if the council asks for changes we redraw at no further charge until the application is decided. Near the boundary, compare our pages for Barnet, Enfield, Hackney and Islington.