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Planning drawings in Greenwich

Planning drawings for a Royal Greenwich home start at £745 including VAT. The borough contains a World Heritage Site and 540 listed entries, and it granted 77.1 per cent of its householder applications in the latest year, so careful drawings count here.

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    Architectural model of a four-storey London stucco townhouse in its terrace, with a portico, area railings, sash windows, a cornice and chimney stacks
    The house as it stands: four storeys over a lower ground floor.Existing Proposed worksAn illustrative model, built for this page.

    How we work on planning drawings

    Seven steps from first call to approval.

    The same model cut through the middle: every floor, the stair, the chimney breasts, the new mansard, rear extension and basement in section
    Section through the model: every floor on one datum.

    1. Enquiry and constraints check

      We check the property against conservation areas, listed status, Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders, flood zone and planning history. We choose the right route and send a fixed quote.

    2. Measured survey

      We survey the house on one datum: rooms, levels, boundaries, drains, trees and the neighbours' windows that the 45° and 25° tests depend on.

    3. Design options

      We model the house in Revit and show you options in 3D and plan, with the planning strategy and the precedents in your street.

    4. Design frozen

      You choose an option in writing. Nothing changes after this without your say.

    5. Independent check

      A second chartered technologist checks every sheet against the council's validation checklist and the policy. A senior review signs it off before anything is submitted.

    6. Submission

      We prepare the forms, certificates, fee and documents and submit through the Planning Portal.

    7. Officer liaison

      We answer the planning officer and make any amendments within five working days, at no charge until approval.

    Free redraws until approval. Every drawing set is checked independently, and the checker is never the person who drew it.

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    The World Heritage Site and Greenwich's conservation areas

    Royal Greenwich has a World Heritage Site inside its boundary: the data records 1 intersecting the area. Around it, the council publishes 23 conservation areas, and any change that affects the setting of a heritage asset is tested harder.

    For a house near the Site or in a conservation area, the drawings go beyond a floor plan. We include a street elevation, a section through the roofline and a note of materials, so an officer can judge the change in the setting without a site visit. Roof extensions, rooflights on front slopes and replacement windows are details an officer will look at closely.

    The development plan is the Royal Greenwich Local Plan: Core Strategy with Detailed Policies, adopted in 2,014. We read its detailed policies on design and heritage alongside the constraints on your road and cite them in the covering note.

    A short heritage statement can accompany the drawings when the setting is sensitive. It explains in plain English what is significant about the building or street and how the proposal responds, and it gives the officer something to quote in the report. We write one where the constraints check says it will help, and say so in the quote rather than adding it later.

    Rows of brick terraced houses and gardens on a residential street

    Local figures for Greenwich

    Figures with their unit, period and source
    MeasureValuePeriodSource
    worldHeritageSites1 World Heritage Sites intersecting the LPA boundary—planning.data.gov.uk
    Conservation areas23 named conservation areas published by the council—planning.data.gov.uk
    Listed building entries540 list entries (Historic England, within the LPA boundary)—planning.data.gov.uk
    Scheduled monuments13 scheduled monuments intersecting the LPA boundary (Historic England)—planning.data.gov.uk
    Householder decisions624 decisions1 July 2025 - 30 June 2026assets.publishing.service.gov.uk
    Householder applications granted77.1 %1 July 2025 - 30 June 2026assets.publishing.service.gov.uk
    Larger home extension prior approvals granted82 decisions2025 Q2 to 2026 Q1 (1 Apr 2025 to 31 Mar 2026)assets.publishing.service.gov.uk
    Owner-occupied households41.1 % of households owner-occupied (owned outright or with mortgage/loan)Census 2021nomisweb.co.uk
    Average price, terraced545,565 GBP2026-07publicdata.landregistry.gov.uk
    Householder: alterations/extensions to a single dwellinghouse, from 1 Apr 2026548 GBP—ribblevalley.gov.uk

    A blank value means the figure has not been published, not that there are none. Check your own address with the council.

    Councils bordering Greenwich
    Which application your project needsLawful Development Certificate decision: 8 weeks. Prior approval decision: 42 days. Householder decision: 8 weeksYour projectWithin permitted development?Lawful Development CertificatePrior approvalHouseholder applicationYesLarger rear extensionNoABC

    Which application your project needs

    The usual route for a house; flats and listed buildings follow other rules.

    A · Lawful Development Certificate decision
    8 weeks
    B · Prior approval decision
    42 days
    C · Householder decision
    8 weeks

    Greenwich's decision figures, read honestly

    Greenwich decided 624 householder applications in its latest twelve months and granted 77.1 per cent. Timeliness is good: 94.2 per cent were decided on time or inside an agreed extension.

    A lower grant rate does not mean a harder council for every house. Heritage constraints can raise the bar for the first design. A scheme that has absorbed the heritage constraints before submission sits at the favourable end of the same statistics.

    Larger rear extensions under prior approval are closely split. The council granted 82 and refused 76 in the latest national return, so that route needs the neighbours' position checked before it is chosen.

    Since the clock starts only when an application is valid, we check the red line, the ownership certificate and the scale bars against the council's validation list before submitting. That avoids the quiet loss of weeks that a returned application causes.

    Listed buildings, scheduled monuments and gardens

    Historic England lists 540 entries in the borough, 28 at Grade I and 45 at Grade II*. Another 13 scheduled monuments and 4 registered parks and gardens intersect the area, and the heritage at risk register holds 22 entries.

    There is no green belt in the borough (the dataset records 0 per cent), so the limits on a Greenwich extension come from heritage, neighbours and the Article 4 direction for houses in multiple occupation rather than from open-land policy.

    We combine these layers in a single constraints note for your address, and flag the ones likely to touch the scheme.

    Housing, levy and route

    48.4 per cent of Greenwich households live in a house and 41.1 per cent own their home, so many applicants live in flats, where permitted development is not available. Terraced houses average £545,565.

    A Lawful Development Certificate in Greenwich suits a house whose rights are intact; the council took in 437 certificate applications in the latest return. Otherwise a householder application costs £548.

    Greenwich is in the Mayor of London's charging band 3, at £30.3 per square metre this year, and it also charges its own borough levy under its current schedule. We note any liability we can see.

    Planning drawings in Greenwich: what you pay and what you get

    Sets start at £745 with VAT included, fixed before we begin. They contain existing and proposed plans, elevations and sections, with location and block plans at stated scales.

    Each sheet is checked by a second chartered technologist. If the council asks for changes we redraw at no charge until approval, and we do not predict the decision.

    Before you instruct us, we can also confirm in a short note whether the project is likely to need listed building consent, a heritage statement or neither, so the fee reflects the true scope.

    Related pages and neighbouring boroughs

    For the borough overview see architectural drawings in Greenwich, and for the technical stage read about building regulations drawings in Greenwich.

    Next door, compare planning drawings in Lewisham, Bexley and Southwark, or read the national guide to planning drawings.

    What you receive

    Planning drawing sheet for a rear extension with plans, elevations and sections
    Sample drawing. Planning drawings for a rear extension: plans, elevations and sections on one sheet set.
    Georgian brick terrace with sash windows, arched fanlight doorways, stone steps and iron railings in London
    The street around you
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    Questions

    Does the World Heritage Site affect a house extension in Greenwich?

    It can, through the setting of heritage assets. The data records 1 World Heritage Site in the borough, and we check your address against it and the 23 conservation areas.

    What does Greenwich's householder grant rate tell me?

    The council granted 77.1 per cent in the latest year. The figure describes the borough, not one house.

    How much do planning drawings cost in Greenwich?

    From £745 including VAT, fixed up front. The application fee goes to the council.

    Does Greenwich have green belt?

    The dataset records 0 per cent of the borough as green belt, so the limits come from heritage and neighbours instead.

    Sources and dates

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    Tell us about your property.

    We check the constraints, then send a fixed fee. Messages before 3pm get a reply the same working day.

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