Architectural drawings in Redbridge

Green belt, conservation areas and listed homes in the borough

A third of the borough lies under green-belt designation: the figure is 34 per cent of its area. In the green belt, extensions are judged against the size of the original house, so the first job is to establish what the original building was.

The council publishes 16 conservation areas. Historic England lists 134 buildings in Redbridge, only 1 of them at Grade I and 12 at Grade II*, with 121 at Grade II.

If your house is listed, or you live in one of those conservation areas, tell us on the first call. It changes the drawings we prepare and the consents you need.

On green-belt land we measure the original house from the survey and show the proposed floor area against it in a simple table on the sheet. Officers can then see the numbers without hunting through the plans.

Redbridge decisions in numbers

In the latest twelve months of published figures the council decided 991 householder applications and granted 82.8 per cent of them. About 94.7 per cent were decided inside eight weeks or an agreed extension.

The picture changes for larger home extensions under prior approval. Redbridge granted 46 and refused 93, so more were refused than granted. A full application is sometimes the safer route.

These are borough-wide records of what happened, not a promise about your property. We use them to choose the route, then we read the decisions made on your own street.

We also read the officer reports on similar applications in your road. They show which points mattered most: depth at the boundary, roof height, privacy or materials.

What a Redbridge project costs beyond the drawings

The Mayor of London's levy puts Redbridge in band 2, at £72.73 per square metre this year. The borough's own schedule, the London Borough of Redbridge CIL Charging Schedule, sets £125.56/m² (flat rate, all uses, whole borough).

Our next-steps pack tells you whether a charge applies to your project. Council application fees are paid to the council and are separate from our fixed fee.

Redbridge applies an Article 4 direction to small houses in multiple occupation, so converting a family house into a shared home needs permission.

Architectural drawings and related services in Redbridge

Most householders begin with planning drawings in Redbridge or, for a ground-floor project, side return extension drawings in Redbridge. For roof space, our dormer loft conversion drawings in Redbridge cover the common option on a semi.

A garage conversion plans service in Redbridge suits houses with an attached garage, and HMO conversion drawings in Redbridge suit investors. Our pages for Barking and Dagenham, Waltham Forest and Newham cover the neighbouring boroughs.

A loft or extension usually needs building regulations drawings once consent is secured, and we produce those as one connected set, so building regulations drawings in Redbridge never contradict the planning sheets.

From first call to approved drawings

You send the address. We check it against heritage, tree, flood and Article 4 constraints and quote a fixed fee. A measured survey and a Revit model of the house follow, then design options in plan and 3D.

Every sheet is checked by a second chartered technologist before submission. If the case officer asks for changes we redraw them for free until the decision is made.

Search the council's planning pages for your street before you commit. Decisions on similar houses are the best guide to what the officers expect.

The next-steps pack covers the commencement notice, the party wall timing and any levy, so nothing is left for you to chase once approval arrives.