Loft conversion drawings in Ealing

Conservation areas, listed houses and the route to consent

Ealing has 31 conservation areas and Historic England lists 309 entries within the borough. Inside a conservation area the national permitted development right for roof enlargements does not apply, and a listed house needs listed building consent on top of planning permission.

Outside those areas many houses can still use permitted development, if the extra roof volume stays within the national limit, the front slope is untouched and there is no balcony. When we think a house qualifies, a Lawful Development Certificate in Ealing gives you written proof. Where it does not, the project is drawn as a householder application, as set out in our planning drawings in Ealing.

A small part of the borough, about 6 per cent, is Green Belt. A loft inside an existing roof seldom raises Green Belt questions, though a larger dormer might.

Surveying a typical Ealing roof

Around half of Ealing's households, 50.3 per cent, live in a house, with the rest in flats and maisonettes. A loft is only a simple project on some of them. For converted houses split into flats, the roof may belong to the freeholder or be shared between several leaseholders.

We survey the roof as it stands and set it on a single datum with the floors below: ridge height, rafters, chimney breasts, party walls and the line of the existing stair. The survey tells us how much floor space a dormer or hip-to-gable change can add and where the new stair can land.

That one set of measurements then carries through to the structural engineer and to the later building regulations drawings in Ealing, so the planning set and the construction set agree.

How Ealing decides householder applications

Ealing decided 946 householder applications in its latest published year and granted 87.2 per cent. 95.3 per cent were decided within eight weeks or an agreed extension.

That is a busy householder desk and a fair record on timing, but the figures describe every kind of household project in the borough. We use them to plan your timetable, never to promise an outcome.

What the loft drawings include and what they cost

An Ealing set has the existing and proposed floor plans, the new stair, the roof in section, all four elevations and the location and block plans. Loft conversion drawings start at £695 including VAT, with the fee agreed before you commit. Drawings are normally ready about a week after the survey.

A second chartered technologist checks every sheet before it goes to the council, and if officers ask for changes we redraw at no additional charge until the application is decided.

Other roof forms, other services and nearby boroughs

To explore the roof form in more detail, see dormer loft conversion drawings in Ealing. Planning a rear extension alongside the loft? Rear extension drawings in Ealing cover that. The whole range for the borough is at architectural drawings in Ealing. Nearby, compare the rules in Hounslow and Hammersmith and Fulham.