Planning drawings in Wandsworth

Basements in Wandsworth

A basement is among the most demanding householder projects, and the council keeps a separate basement guidance note beside the Housing SPD. The drawings need sections through the house, the garden and the neighbouring boundary, showing depth and the structure around the dig.

Where the work needs a technical assessment, our basement impact assessment in Wandsworth service prepares it to go in with the application.

Even a modest cellar or lower-ground conversion should be treated as a basement project here. If the floor is lowered, the foundations of the house and its neighbours are involved, and the party wall process may apply alongside planning. Raising these points at quote stage lets you budget for the specialist reports before the design is drawn, not after.

Conservation areas and listed houses

Wandsworth has 46 conservation areas, and Historic England records 312 listed entries, with 5 at Grade I and 34 at Grade II*. Inside a conservation area a rear or roof extension can lose its permitted development rights, and the application then needs a stronger case on materials and proportions.

We check each address against those layers first. If the right survives, a Lawful Development Certificate in Wandsworth proves it; if not, the planning set carries the full argument.

How Wandsworth has been deciding householder cases

In its latest published year the council decided 977 householder applications, granted 91.9 per cent and decided 92.4 per cent in time. Only 31.4 per cent of households live in a house, so many homes here are flats.

Those flats matter for your route. Householder permitted development (Sch 2 Part 1) does not apply to flats or buildings containing flats. The figures describe the borough in general and do not predict any one decision.

For a house, the route depends on the address. Outside a conservation area and any Article 4 direction, part of the work may be permitted development, and we say so at quote stage rather than drawing an application you do not need.

What a Wandsworth planning set contains and what it costs

A set contains existing and proposed floor plans, elevations and sections, plus a location plan and a block plan. The national guidance asks for this: Typically 1:1250 or 1:2500, site edged red including access to the highway, other owned land edged blue. Our fee is £745 with VAT included and fixed before you commit.

The council's fee for a householder application is £548, paid to the council. A second chartered technologist checks every sheet before submission, and we redraw at no charge if the council asks for changes before a decision.

Once the planning route is settled, the building regulations drawings in Wandsworth turn the design into technical sheets for construction.

Nearby councils and the borough overview

The borough page, architectural drawings in Wandsworth, sets out the council's wider figures, and the planning drawings hub explains the national rules. Over the boundary, Lambeth and Merton apply their own guidance to similar streets.